Today’s is not realty a person but a Project. During the last economic downturn President Franklin Roosevelt created the New Deal which was meant to create lots of jobs as quick as possible. The Great Depression devastated America and Roosevelt wanted to make sure artists, actors, directors and writers. And so we have the Federal Theatre Project which was created in 1935.
The Federal Theatre Project was also intended to bring arts all over the country and to poorer families. The biggest part of the project was Living Newspapers which took current events from newspaper clippings and turned them into plays. Most of the topics focused around farm policy and were know to be very liberal. This is what made them so controversial in congress and ultimately killed the project.
There were many notable people like Arthur Miller and Orson Welles who got there start in the Project. The Federal Theatre Project came to an end in 1939 when congress stopped funding because of the left-wing spin that most of the projects had.
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