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Ellen Stewart

Ellen Stewart, American director and producer (died 2011)

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Born
November 7, 1919
Died
January 13, 2011
Zodiac sign
Scorpio
Birth year
1919

About Ellen Stewart

Ellen Stewart was an American theatre director and producer and the founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. During the 1950s, she worked as a fashion designer for Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Lord & Taylor, and Henri Bendel. In 1961, Stewart founded Café La MaMa together with Paul Foster and others. La MaMa was created as a space for playwrights to experiment with their new work without the influence of critics or commercial interests. Stewart had no background in theatre, yet she became a key figure in the beginnings of the Off-Off-Broadway movement.

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The world when Ellen Stewart was born

Ellen Stewart was born in 1919. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1919

  • Best-selling book"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentBlack Sox scandal — 1919 World Series fixed
  • Top headlineTreaty of Versailles signed — 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
  • Technology milestoneFirst nonstop transatlantic flight (Alcock & Brown)
  • Defining fadOuija boards
  • Notable inventionPop-up toaster
  • World population~1.79B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population103.2M

1919 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Ellen Stewart's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19192026
Gas$0.25$3.45/gal
Average home$5,000$435,000
Average income$2,000$67,500
Movie ticket$0.15$11.95
Postage stamp$0.03$0.73
Population103.2M341 million

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