Hallie Flanagan

Hallie Flanagan Davis was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration .

Hallie Flanagan was born in Redfield, South Dakota, and was raised in Grinnell, Iowa. She attended Grinnell Colleges where she majored in Philosophy and German, and was an active member in the dramatic club. During her time at Grinnell she met husband, Murray Flanagan, also a member of the Grinnell dramatic college. After college, the two exchanged vows, and had two sons, Jack and Frederick Flanagan. Murray was diagnosed with tuberculosis the disease took his life in 1919. Soon after, the eldest son, Jack, died of spinal meningitis in 1922. Hallie and Frederick moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where she enrolled in George Pierce Bakers famous 47 Workshop dramatic production studio at Radcliffe College Harvard University. This class, one of the first of its kind at an American university, taught playwrighting. Baker was so impressed with her, he decided to make her the director of the workshops actors group in 1923. While at Radcliffe and later at Vassar College, Flanagan began develo

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