Titlebook: Audrey Wood and the Playwrights; Milly S. Barranger Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013 America.stage.the

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An Accidental Career read and initialed each page and promptly returned them to the agency’s legal department. Then she turned her attention to her clients’ productions that were in various stages of preparation for Broadway.

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IntroductionAudrey Wood, who first put “represented by Audrey Wood” in a Broadway playbill, was the American theater’s most famous play agent. Working behind the scenes, the diminutive New Yorker (scarcely five feet tall without her signature hat) encouraged talented writers and guided their careers through bus

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Stagestruckdeville shows and touring productions in New York theaters managed by her father. She was stagestruck at an early age by Weber and Fields’ Dutch act in mock-Germanic accents, by the reenactment of the English derby in ., and by the tribute to the Divine Sarah, seated in a high-back chair while assem

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Starting Outtoo busy looking for a job to be concerned about what was later called the glass ceiling. She knew that most women in theatrical offices labored as telephone operators, receptionists, and typists in undistinguished and badly paid jobs. Even in the mid-1920s, when Rachel Crothers, Zo? Akins, Rose Fra

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Personal Monstersp in the Pacific. From a naval ship in the Gulf of Leyte, ., Anderson’s drama about a returning serviceman and the problems he encounters in civilian life, reached Audrey’s desk the same year that . opened on Broadway. Thus began a 35 year relationship that found agent and playwright at Broadway ope

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Iron Butterflies reality of the agent’s business was finding a well-written drama that affirmed the writer’s talent and the script’s commercial value. The next step was to sign the playwright, find producers with money, bring them together with the writer, marry both parties with contracts, and apply endless amount

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