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A Creative Coffee Break

Lillian Hellman
Born: June 20, 1905
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Died: June 30, 1984
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA

We’re going to be quoting Lillian Hellman every day this month in honor of her 105th birday!

FYI: This year a new award in honor of playwright Lillian Hellman was created by The Committee for Recognizing Women in Theatre: The Lilly Award. The first awards were presented May 24, 2010 at Playwrights Horizon and celebrated women playwrights, directors, designers and advocates in theatre.

She warned me it was going to be tough to be a woman working in the theater. She said I’d need to write like the devil and also act like one when necessary. She was right on all counts.

what Marsha Norman said Lillian Hellman told her on working in the theatre

The Plays

• Another Part of the Forest, 1946
• The Autumn Garden, 1951
• Candide, 1957 (Tony Nominee, Best Book Musical)
• The Children’s Hour, 1934
• Days to Come, 1936
• Lark, 1955 (adaptation)
• The Little Foxes, 1941
• Montserrat, 1950 (adaptation)
• My Mother, My Father and Me, 1960
• Regina, 1949
• The Searching Wind, 1944
• Toys in the Attic, 1960 (Tony Nominee, Best Play)
• Watch on the Rhine, 1941

Some of the Films

• The Chase, 1966 (based on Horton Foote’s play)
• The Children’s Hour, 1961 (based on her play)
• Dark Angel, 1935
• Dead End, 1937
• The Little Foxes, 1941 (based on her play; nominated for Oscar)
• The North Star, 1943 (nominated for Oscar)
• The Searching Wind, 1946 (based on her play)
• The Spanish Earth, 1937 (uncredited)
• These Three, 1936 (based on her play, The Children’s Hour)
• Watch on the Rhine, 1943 (based on her play)
• The Westerner, 1940 (uncredited)