Bessie "Betty" Mitchell (May 4, 1896 – September 10, 1976) was an American-born Canadian theatre director and educator.
She was born in Sandusky, Ohio, and came to Alberta with her mother, brother and sister when she was sixteen, settling on a farm near Oyen.
Mitchell also helped establish a number of theatre groups there: The Green Room Club in 1930, the Side Door Playhouse in 1932 and Workshop 14 in 1944.
[1][2] After Professor Barclay Leathem attended a special presentation of Our Town at Western Canada High School, he recommended Mitchell for a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.
A National Research Fellowship from the Cleveland Play House allowed her to visit and study theatre groups in the United States.