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31 Bedford St, London WC2E 9EH, UKEdith Craig was born on December 9th, 1869 to parents Ellen Terry and Edward William Godwin. Her birth name was Edith Godwin, but legally changed it in 1883 to Edith Ailsa Craig. She was baptized Edith Ailsa Geraldine Craig in 1887 but known by her close circle of friends as Edy. Terry thought that Ailsa Craig was a good stage name after
Edith Craig. Actress: Behind the Headlines. Edith Craig was born on 13 September 1907 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Behind the Headlines (1937), Foolish Hearts (1935) and Harmony Lane (1935). She died on 2 March 1979 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA.
Edith Craig was a leader of the British Drama League from 1919. Craig was also art director of the Leeds Art Theatre and directed a season of George Bernard Shaw plays at the Everyman Theatre Hampstead. She is said to be the model for the character Miss Latrobe in Virginia Woolf's novel Between the Acts (1941).
Edith 'Edy' Craig est la fille illégitime de la grande actrice de théâtre Ellen Terry et de l'architecte et designer Edward William Godwin, ainsi que la sœur de l'homme de théâtre Edward Gordon Craig . Elle a fait ses études à la Royal Academy of Music de Londres et a joué son premier rôle dans Olivia en 1878 au Royal Court Theatre.
Edith Craig. Actress: The God in the Garden. Edith Craig born in Hertfordshire in 1869 from a famous theatre family, daughter of the legendary stage star Ellen Terry and architect-designer Edward William Godwin. Edith became a well-known stage director, producer, costume designer and actress making her stage debut at the Royal Court Theatre in 1878, sophisticated upper-class lady in a handful ...
Edith (“Edy”) Craig, lesbian theater director and women’s suffrage activist, directed numerous plays and historical pageants, making significant contributions to the Little Theatre Movement in interwar Britain. After an unofficial apprenticeship as an actor and costumier with her mother Ellen Terry ...
We celebrate and remember Ellen Terry as a great actress of the Victorian period, but we need also to ascribe to her records the promotion of early twentieth-century modernist theatre: she indeed financed and supported the bold innovative enterprises of her son Edward Gordon Craig, The Purcell Operatic Society (1901–4) and of her daughter Edith Craig and the Pioneer Players (1911–25).
