From Vassar Faculty Activities
1929/30

Hallie Flanagan, who had come to Vassar in 1925 as Professor of English, was made director of the Experimental Theatre.

1930, May 1
Hallie Flanagan, Director of the Experimental Theatre, sailed for Europe in charge of a group of ten instructors, to study the
theatres of Russia.

1931, Dec. 11-12
The Hippolytus of Euripides was presented in Greek by the Experimental Theatre and the Greek Department, with the
cooperation of the Departments of Music and Art. It was directed by Hallie Flanagan and Philip Davis. The performance is
believed to be the first presentation in modern times in the tongue in which the play was first heard 2300 years ago.

1935, June 24-Aug. 3
The Experimental Theatre conducted a summer session for men and women actively interested in writing, acting and producing
for the modern theatre. It was directed by Hallie Flanagan and Lester E. Lang. Productions included the American premiere of Auden's Dance of Death, given as a musical comedy entitled Come Out into the Sun.

1937, July-Aug.
A six week summer work-shop of the Federal Theatre was held at Vassar with the cooperation of the Rockefeller Foundation, the WPA and the college. Hallie Flanagan Davis, on leave from Vassar, was National Director of the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939.

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