Shortly after, she produced the original Broadway production of Let Freedom Ring by Albert Barne, which depicts textile strikes in the South.
[1] In 1935-1936, during the Spanish Civil War, Bean produced a play about Spain titled Who Fights This Battle with Joseph Losey as director and Kenneth White as writer.
It was written and produced in ten days with 60 actors, at least 50 of which were earning a living through the Works Progress Administration's Federal Theatre Project.
[1] Bean joined the Communist Party in March 1936, and she and many of her colleagues became involved in the rank and file movement of the Actors' Equity Association.
She worked with Barrie Stavis on his play Joe Hill, and was an acting member of the Resident Company of the Cherry County Playhouse in Traverse City, Michigan during the 1957 summer season.