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Clare Tree Major (1880 – 10 October 1954) was a stage director, playwright, producer of children's theater, and actress.[1][2] She first acted in London, but in 1914 she came to New York to perform with the Washington Square Players.[1] She was the first British actress to tour America from coast to coast.[3] From the 1920s on she worked exclusively on theater for children, writing plays and sending professional actors on tour to perform them.[1]

Biography

She was born in 1880 in England. She migrated to the United States in 1914.[4] In 1924 she started the Children's Theatre of New York. In 1925 she produced the play The Little Poor Man. She founded the Clare Tree Major Theatre Company in 1927.[1]

She died on 10 October 1954 in Manhattan.[5]

Legacy

The Clare Tree Major papers, 1912-1954, are held in the New York Public Library.[2]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clare Tree Major.

• Works by or about Clare Tree Major at Internet Archive
• Clare Tree Major at the Internet Broadway Database
• 'The Traveling Plays of Clare Tree Major at ERIC

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