Ellen Stewart
Ellen Stewart was an American theatre director and producer and the founder of La MaMa, E.T.C. . In the 1950s she worked as a fashion designer for Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord amp Taylor, and Henri Bendel.
Ellen Stewart was born either in Chicago, Illinois or possibly Alexandria, Louisiana. This inexactitude stems from Stewarts reticence about revealing details of her early life. As an observer wrote, Her history is somewhat difficult to sort outindeed it takes on a legendary qualitysince on different occasions she gives different versions of the same stories. Of her parents, Stewart stated that her father was a tailor from Louisiana and her mother was a teacher and that they divorced during her youth.
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