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A pioneer in American theatre studies and a champion of women artists and scholars, Vera Mowry Roberts died in Texas on 1 February 2010. She was a master teacher who trained two generations of theatre scholars and worked tirelessly to legitimate U.S. theatre as an object of academic study. Believing in the inextricable connection between theory and practice, Vera was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and later directed in educational, community, and professional theatres while teaching theatre history and dramatic literature. In 1950 she and five others co-founded Washington's Arena Stage, one of the first and most influential regional theatres in the United States.
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