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WelcomeBiographyMilly Barranger is an author, educator, and producer and lives in New York City where she writes books about women and the modern American theater. Her newest book is A Gambler’s Instinct: The Story of Broadway Producer Cheryl Crawford, published in 2010. She is Dean Emerita of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Paul Green Foundation. She has served on boards of the National Theatre Conference and the League of Professional Theatre Women. She has also served as Past President of the National Theatre Conference and the American Theatre Association. She holds the title of Distinguished Professor Emerita from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served concurrently as chairwoman of the Department of Dramatic Art and producing director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, a member of the League of Resident Theatres. She received the 2009 Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education Award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and the New England Theatre Conference 2010 Special Award for Outstanding Achievement in the American Theatre. Other recent books include Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater; Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era; Theatre: A Way of Seeing; and Understanding Plays. She is co-editor of Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary and has compiled reference works on Margaret Webster and Jessica Tandy. She has lectured at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts on Broadway producer Cheryl Crawford and on stage director Margaret Webster and the 1943 Broadway production of Othello with Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, and José Ferrer. She is currently writing a book on literary agent Audrey Wood, entitled Audrey Wood and the Playwrights. |
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