Theresa Helburn

There she acted first as a literary manager, reviewing scripts, then as casting director, and later became co-producer with Lawrence Langner.

[3] The Guild brought original dramas from European and American playwrights, such as George Bernard Shaw and Eugene O'Neill, to the Broadway stage, and established relationships with such notable actors as Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne,[3] whom Helburn cast together for the first time in 1924.

[1] In the early 1930s, she also worked briefly in Hollywood, and she maintained strong ties with the film and television industries until the time of her death.

[6] Other important Broadway productions included The Iceman Cometh (1946), Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Picnic (1953) and The Trip to Bountiful (1953).

[2] A collection of theatrical ephemera, photographs and writings relating to Helburn's life and to the Guild is housed at Bryn Mawr College.