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A Wayward Quest: The Autobiography of Theresa Helburn
A Wayward Quest: The Autobiography of Theresa Helburn
A Wayward Quest: The Autobiography of Theresa Helburn
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A WAYWARD QUEST, which was first published in 1960, is the autobiography of a woman who for forty years was one of the most important figures in the American theater—and who loved every minute of it. Small, vivacious, imaginative, Theresa Helburn was a wonderfully attractive person who at one time or another knew most of the great talents of the century—from Gertrude Stein and Isadora Duncan (her youthful heroines during a sojourn in Paris) to G. B. Shaw and Eugene O’Neill. Her consuming interest in the theater, her convictions about its past and present and dreams for its future, form the background of her story, against this runs a sparkling stream of stories and anecdotes about people and plays she knew and loved.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPapamoa Press
Release dateFeb 27, 2018
ISBN9781789120097
A Wayward Quest: The Autobiography of Theresa Helburn
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Theresa Helburn

Theresa Helburn (January 12, 1887 - August 18, 1959) was an American playwright and theatrical producer best known for her work as a co-founder and producer of New York’s Theatre Guild from 1919 to the 1950s. She was born in New York City to Julius Helburn, a leather merchant, and Hannah née Peyser, who established her own experimental elementary school. She attended the Horace Mann School and Windsor School in Boston before graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1908, where she was active in theatre. She then studied playwriting at Radcliffe College and at the Sorbonne. She went on to teach theatre, wrote drama criticism and, by 1918, the first of her own plays was produced on Broadway. Helburn was a co-founder of the Theatre Guild in 1919. She acted first as a literary manager, reviewing scripts, then as casting director, and later became co-producer with Lawrence Langner. The Guild brought original dramas from European and American playwrights, such as George Bernard Shaw and Eugene O’Neill, to the Broadway stage, and established relationships with such notable actors as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, whom Helburn cast together for the first time in 1924. In 1925, just six years after the establishment of the production company, Helburn presided over the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Guild Theatre. She also supported new plays and playwrights in smaller theatres. Some of Helburn’s Broadway productions in the 1930s included Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) and The Philadelphia Story (1939). In the early 1930s, she also worked briefly in Hollywood, and she maintained strong ties with the film and television industries until her death in 1959 in Norwalk, Connecticut at the age of 72.

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