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Federal Theater Project

US arts employment scheme 1935–39 founded as part of Roosevelt's New Deal by the Works Progress Administration; it provided affordable theatre throughout the USA and had long-term influence on modern US drama.

The project was directed by Hallie Flanagan, head of drama at Vassar college, and included the ‘Living Newpaper’ presenting current social and economic issues, the Negro Theater (initially under John Houseman), and an experimental theatre. It created many new groups and works before it was halted by Congress.



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Between 1930 and 1935 Johnson submitted several plays to the newly organized Federal Theatre Project (FTP), and in 1938 she contributed her playwriting skills to the NAACP's anti-lynching campaign.
Art, activism, and uncompromising attitude in Georgia Douglas ... by Stephens, Judith L. / African American Review
Will Geer, the Theatricum's founder and Ellen Geer's father, was in Orson Welles' famed Federal Theatre Project production of ``Cradle'' in 1937, an event that - as film director Tim Robbins demonstrated - was far more interesting than the product Blitzstein actually put on stage.
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This incendiary musical play, with its bare-bones staging, pro-worker sentiments, and thumb-nosing approach to musical scoring, caught the unionist spirit of the day as it precipitated the downfall of the Federal Theatre Project amid suspicion of communist propagandizing.
SEEING RED by Stuart, Jan / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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