{"title":"Mary Chase","role":"Playwright","image":"","lede":null,"content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\r\n<p><strong>MARY CHASE (Playwright)<\/strong> (n\u00e9e Coyle). b West Denver, Colorado, 25 Feb 1907; d of Frank Coyle and his wife Mary (McDonough); e University of Denver and University of Colorado; m Robert L Chase. Formerly a reporter for the <em>Rocky Mountain News<\/em>; first play produced was <em>Me Third<\/em>, written for the Federal Theatre Project in Denver Colorado, in 1936; <em>Me Third<\/em> was also her first Broadway production, produced at the Henry Miller\u2019s, 5 Mar 1937, as <em>Now You\u2019ve Done It<\/em>; since then has written <em>A Slip of a Girl<\/em>, 1941; <em>Harvey<\/em> for which she received the Pulitzer Prize, 1944; <em>The Next Half Hour<\/em>, 1945; <em>Mrs McThing, Bernardine<\/em>, 1952; <em>Lolita<\/em>, produced at the Barter Theatre, Abingdon, Virginia, 1954; <em>Midgie Purvis<\/em>, 1961; <em>Cocktails for Mimi<\/em>, Barter Theatre, 1973; <em>Harvey<\/em> produced at The Prince of Wales\u2019, London, 5 Jan 1949, and on various occasions and places since, most notably at the ANTA, NY, Feb 1970 and The Price of Wales\u2019 Jan 1975; <em>Harvey<\/em> filmed in 1951, and <em>Bernadine<\/em> in 1975; also author of the children\u2019s book <em>Loretta Mason Potts<\/em>, 1959.<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","website":"","alt":""}