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Mary Aldis

Mary Aldis

Mary Reynolds Aldis was an American playwright and a prominent figure in the early 20th-century little theater movement near Chicago.

Lived
1872–1949
Nationality
American
Era
Little Theatre Movement
Language
English

Mary Reynolds Aldis was an American playwright active during the early twentieth century. She is best remembered for her contributions to the little theater movement, a reformist theatrical trend in the United States.

In the early 1910s, Aldis established a small theater outside of Chicago, Illinois. Through this venue and her own dramatic writing, she helped foster community-based, non-commercial theatrical productions during a transformative era for American drama.