F. Curtis Canfield
American theatre director
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Fayette Curtis Canfield was an American theater director, drama professor, and the first dean of the Yale School of Drama. Career A member of the 1925 class of Amherst College, Canfield took a teaching job there in 1927, eventually becoming Stanley King Professor of dramatic arts and, from 1938, director of the college's Kirby Memorial Theater. In 1954, he was appointed as the first dean of the Yale School of Drama, remaining there until 1967. At Yale, he produced the premieres of several major plays, including Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer-winning J.B., and staged revivals at Yale and off-Broadway, such as Stephen Vincent Benét's dramatic poem, John Brown's Body. He left Yale in 1967 to teach at the University of Pittsburgh, where he stayed until his retirement in 1973.
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