Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Waushara County): Naturalization Records, 1852-1949

Container Title
U.S. Mss 57AN
Series: Part 1, 1929-1968
Scope and Content Note

Part 1 of the Alan Schneider Papers are divided into nine major subseries: General Correspondence, Plays Acted In and Directed By Schneider, Scripts Read or Worked On, But Not Directed By Schneider, Academic Materials, Writing Materials, Wartime Materials, Theater Organizations and Travel, Biographical Materials, and Previously Restricted Materials. Each subseries is described further in the contents list.

Each subseries begins with a new Box 1, so it is necessary to specify both the subseries number and the box number when requesting files.

Subseries: Subseries 1: General Correspondence, 1936-1967
Scope and Content Note: General correspondence is arranged chronologically by year, and within each year arranged by month. Letters without month dates appear at the end of each year; undated letters appear at the end of the subseries. Initial letters and subsequent correspondence relating to a particular subject are stapled together and filed under the date of the first letter. This subseries contains carbon copies of letters written by Schneider as well as letters from other correspondents. Appendix I contains an index of the major correspondents for each year. Whenever possible, correspondence which directly concerns plays and other projects is included under the appropriate categories elsewhere in the collection.
Box   1
Folder   1
1936-1939
Box   1
Folder   2
1940
Box   1
Folder   3
1941 January-June
Box   1
Folder   4
1941 July-December
Box   1
Folder   5
1942
Box   1
Folder   6
1943 January-April
Box   1
Folder   7
1943 May-July
Box   1
Folder   8
1943 August-December
Box   2
Folder   1
1944
Box   2
Folder   2
1945
Box   2
Folder   3
1946
Box   2
Folder   4
1947
Box   2
Folder   5
1948
Box   2
Folder   6
1949
Box   2
Folder   7
1950
Box   2
Folder   8
1951
Box   2
Folder   9
1952
Box   2
Folder   10
1953
Box   3
Folder   1
1954
Box   3
Folder   2
1955
Box   3
Folder   3
1956
Box   3
Folder   4
1957
Box   3
Folder   5
1958
Box   3
Folder   6
1959
Box   3
Folder   7
1960
Box   3
Folder   8
1961
Box   4
Folder   1
1962 January-September
Box   4
Folder   2
1962 October-December
Box   4
Folder   3
1963 January-March
Box   4
Folder   4
1963 April-June
Box   4
Folder   5
1963 July-September
Box   4
Folder   6
1963 October-December
Box   5
Folder   1
1964 January-February
Box   5
Folder   2
1964 March-April
Box   5
Folder   3
1964 May-June
Box   5
Folder   4
1964 July-August
Box   5
Folder   5
1964 September
Box   5
Folder   6
1964 October
Box   6
Folder   1
1964 November-December
Box   6
Folder   2
1965 January
Box   6
Folder   3
1965 January
Box   6
Folder   4
1965 February
Box   6
Folder   5
1965 March
Box   6
Folder   6
1965 April
Box   6
Folder   7
1965 May
Box   7
Folder   1
1965 June-August
Box   7
Folder   2
1965 September-October
Box   7
Folder   3
1965 November-December
Box   7
Folder   4
1966 January-February
Box   7
Folder   5
1966 March
Box   7
Folder   6
1966 April-June
Box   8
Folder   1
1966 July-August
Box   8
Folder   2
1966 September-October
Box   8
Folder   3
1966 November-December
Box   8
Folder   4
1967 January
Box   8
Folder   5
1967 February-March
Box   8
Folder   6
1967 April
Box   9
Folder   1
1967 May-June
Box   9
Folder   2
1967 July-August
Box   9
Folder   3
1967 September-December
Box   9
Folder   4
undated
Box   9
Folder   5
undated
Subseries: Subseries 2: Plays Acted In and Directed By Schneider
Scope and Content Note: In this subseries, the plays Schneider directed are subdivided into seven theater categories: Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional, University and College, Radio Television and Film, Foreign, and Miscellany. Within these categories plays are arranged chronologically according to the date of production. The entries for each play give the author, theater, opening date, and any information regarding other productions of the same play directed by Schneider. In the folders for any given production the materials are classified in the following order. First is the general correspondence: dated, undated. If there is financial correspondence, records, or contracts, they will follow general correspondence. Second are the production notes which are arranged in the following sequence: (a) general notes--casting, set, costume and lighting designs, sound and music, rehearsal schedule, cast and crew list, and miscellaneous; (b) programs or playbills from out-of-town tryouts and opening night, as well as clippings, reviews and miscellany pertaining to the particular production; (c) various scripts--director's, original, or revised, and rewrites. Whereas all the elements mentioned may not be available for every play, those materials which are available will be found arranged in this general sequence. Researchers should note that Schneider sometimes writes notes about the production at the end of his promptbook or script, in addition to the production notes in the folder. It should also be noted that the “Miscellany” subdivision contains scripts from productions in which Schneider worked in some capacity other than or in addition to director, e.g. assistant director, stage manager, actor.
Broadway
A Long Way from Home by Randolph Goodman and Walter Carroll, Maxine Elliott Theatre, 1948 February 8
Box   2
Folder   1
Correspondence, production notes, 1947 December-1948 February
Box   2
Folder   2
Director's script
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker by Liam O'Brien, Coronet Theatre, 1953 December 30
Box   2
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1953 October-1955 May
Note: Also production notes and script rewrites for Act III.
Package   1
Poster
All Summer Long by Robert Anderson, Coronet Theatre, 1954 September 23
Box   2
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1953 February-1954 October
Note: Also contracts and financial records.
Box   2
Folder   5
Production notes, playbill
Box   2
Folder   6
Script changes
Box   2
Folder   7
Revised script
Anastasia by Marcel Maurette, adapted by Guy Bolton, Lyceum Theatre, 1954 December 29
Box   2
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1954 September-1956 August
Note: Also contracts, financial records.
Box   3
Folder   1
Production notes
Box   3
Folder   2
Revised script
Box   3
Folder   3
Clean script
Tonight in Samarkand by Jacques Deval and Lorenzo Semple Jr., Morosco Theatre, 1955 February 16
Box   3
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1954 August-January
Note: Also includes part of annotated script.
Box   3
Folder   5
Clean script
The Little Glass Clock by Hugh Mills, John Golden Theatre, 1956 March 26
Box   3
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1955 December-1956 April
Note: Also production notes.
Box   3
Folder   7
Director's script
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, New York City Center, 1956 November 21
Box   4
Folder   1
Production notes, photographs, playbill, clippings
Miss Lonelyhearts by Howard Teichmann, Music Box Theatre, 1957 October 3
Box   4
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1955 May-1957 September
Package   1
Poster
Box   4
Folder   3
Production notes
Box   4
Folder   4
Director's script
Box   4
Folder   5
Scene revisions
Kataki by Shimon Wincelberg, Ambassador Theatre, 1959 April 9
Box   4
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1957 September-1962 July
Note: Also production notes.
Package   1
Poster
Box   5
Folder   1
Annotated script
Revised script
Box   5
Folder   2
“A”
Box   5
Folder   3
“B”
Box   5
Folder   4
“C”
Rape of the Belt by Benn W. Levy, Wilbur Theatre (Boston, Massachusetts), 1960 October 20
Box   5
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1960 August-1960 November
Note: Also production notes.
Director's script
Box   5
Folder   6
“A”
Box   5
Folder   7
“B”
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, Billy Rose Theatre, 1962 October 13
Box   6
Folder   1
Program
Package   1
Poster
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers, adapted by Edward Albee, Martin Beck Theatre, 1963 October 30
Box   6
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1963 June-1964 May
Package   1
Poster
Box   6
Folder   3
Production notes
Box   6
Folder   4
Revised script
Script
Box   6
Folder   5
“A”
Box   6
Folder   6
“B”
Tiny Alice by Edward Albee, Billy Rose Theatre, 1964 December 29
Box   6
Folder   7
Playbills, clipping
Entertaining Mr. Sloane by Joe Orton, Lyceum Theatre, 1965 October 13
Box   7
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1964 October-1966 December
Box   7
Folder   2
Actors' photographs and résumés
Box   7
Folder   3
Production notes
Box   7
Folder   4
British script, reviews
Box   7
Folder   5
Sloane's understudy script
Box   7
Folder   6
Kath's script
Box   8
Folder   1
Ed's script
Malcolm by Edward Albee, Shubert Theatre, 1966 January 11
Box   8
Folder   2
Program
Slapstick Tragedy by Tennessee Williams, Longacre Theatre, 1966 February 22
Box   8
Folder   3
Program
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee, Martin Beck Theatre, 1966 September 22
Box   8
Folder   4
Programs
Off-Broadway
Pullman Car Hiawatha by Thornton Wilder, Neighborhood Playhouse, 1952 January 30
Box   8
Folder   5
Production notes, director's script
Hide and Seek by Arnold Sundgaard, Neighborhood Playhouse, 1953 April 21
Box   8
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1953 March-April
Note: Also miscellaneous notes.
Endgame by Samuel Beckett, Cherry Lane Theatre, 1958 January 28
Box   8
Folder   7
Program, financial record
Package   1
Poster
The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler, Players Theatre, 1959 October 13
Box   8
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1958 August-1959 December
Note: Also production notes, programs.
Box   8
Folder   9
Director's script
Package   1
Poster
Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, Provincetown Playhouse, 1960 January 14; and Players Theatre, , 1960 April
Box   8
Folder   10
Program
The American Dream and The Death of Bessie Smith by Edward Albee, York Playhouse, 1961 January 24
Package   1
Poster
Theatre of the Absurd: Endgame by Samuel Beckett, 1962 February 11; The American Dream and The Zoo Story by Edward Albee, Cherry Lane Theatre, , 1962 March 1
Box   8
Folder   11
Program, notes on Endgame
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, Kaufman Concert Hall and Cherry Lane Theatre, 1962
Box   8
Folder   12
Program
The Pinter Plays: The Collection and The Dumbwaiter by Harold Pinter, Cherry Lane Theatre, 1962 November 26
Box   9
Folder   1
Programs, script, The Collection
The Pinter Plays: The Dumbwaiter and The Collection by Harold Pinter, Provincetown Playhouse, 1962
Package   1
Poster
Play and The Lover by Samuel Beckett, Cherry Lane Theatre, 1964 January 4
Box   9
Folder   2
Program, clean script
Do Not Pass Go by Charles Nolte, Cherry Lane Theatre, 1965 April 9
Box   9
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1964 July-1965 April
Box   9
Folder   4
Director's script
The Zoo Story by Edward Albee and Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, Village South Theatre, 1965 September 14
Box   9
Folder   5
Programs
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, Cherry Lane Theatre, 1966 September 28
Box   9
Folder   6
Program
Regional
Sing Out Sweet Land by Walter Kerr, Cain Park Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio), 1947 August 5
Box   9
Folder   7
Director's script
Box   9
Folder   8
Music
Lute Song by Kao-Tong-Kia, adapted by Will Irwin and Sidney Howard, Cain Park Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio), 1948 July 6
Box   9
Folder   9
Director's script
Reluctant Lady by Maurice Valency, Cain Park Theatre (Cleveland, Ohio), 1948 July 27
Box   9
Folder   10
Correspondence, 1948 April-September
Note: Also includes clean script.
Pullman Car Hiawatha by Thornton Wilder, Actors Studio (New York City), 1949
Box   9
Folder   11
Casting notes, contains complete list of all other productions of play
Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin, The Cape Playhouse (Cape Cod, Massachusetts), 1950 July 3
Box   9
Folder   12
Correspondence, 1950 August-September
Note: Includes notes.
Over 21 by Ruth Gordon, Falmouth Playhouse (Falmouth, Masssachusetts), 1950 July 31
Box   10
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1950 June-July
Note: Also includes production notes, programs.
Harvey by Mary Chase, Falmouth Playhouse (Falmouth, Massachusetts), 1950 August 7
Box   10
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1950 April-July
Note: Also includes production notes.
Post Road by W.D. Steele and N. Mitchell, Falmouth Playhouse (Falmouth, Massachusetts), 1950 August 14
Box   10
Folder   3
Production notes
Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Players Inc. (Washington, D.C.), 1950 September 30
Box   10
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1950 September
Note: Includes programs, publicity, director's script.
Box   10
Folder   5
Clean script
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1951 April 10 and , 1951 May 22
Box   10
Folder   6
Production notes
Box   10
Folder   7
Director's script
The Primrose Path by Robert Buckner and Walter Hart, 1951 August 8 The Playhouse (Houston, Texas)
Box   10
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1951 June-October
Note: Also includes contract, production notes.
Box   10
Folder   9
Director's script
The Hasty Heart by John Patrick, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1952 June 17
Box   10
Folder   10
Director's script, programs
Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1952 October 7
Box   11
Folder   1
Production notes, director's script
Lady Precious Stream by S.I. Hsiung, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1952 December 9
Box   11
Folder   2
Production notes, director's script
The Miser by Moliere, adapted by Walter Kerr, Players Inc. (Washington, D.C.), 1953-1954
Box   11
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1953 March-May
Note: Includes production notes.
Box   11
Folder   4
Director's script
Othello by William Shakespeare, edited by Mark Eccles, Players Inc. (Washington, D.C.), 1953-1954
Box   11
Folder   5
Director's script
Box   11
Folder   6
Publicity book, mixed up script and analysis
Box   11
Folder   7
Annotated script
All Summer Long by Robert Anderson, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1953 January 13
Box   11
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1951 January-1953 February
Box   12
Folder   1
Production notes
Box   12
Folder   2
Original script
Box   12
Folder   3
Director's script
Box   12
Folder   4
Annotated script
Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1953 March 16
Box   12
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1953 February
Note: Includes production notes, clippings.
Box   12
Folder   6
Director's script
The Country Girl by Clifford Odets, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1953 May 18
Box   12
Folder   7
Production notes, program, director's script
My Heart's in the Highlands by William Saroyan, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1953 August 11
Box   12
Folder   8
Production notes, director's script
The Happy Journey by Thornton Wilder, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1953 September 1
Box   13
Folder   1
Director's script
The Bad Angel by Joel Hammil, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1953 October 20
Box   13
Folder   2
Director's script, production notes
Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1954 February 9
Box   13
Folder   3
Production notes, program, director's script
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1956 November 7
Box   13
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1956 September-October
Note: Also production notes, director's script.
The Circus of Dr. Lao by Gwyn Conger and Nathaniel Benchley, Edgewater Beach Playhouse (Chicago, Illinois), 1957 July 9
Box   13
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1951 December-1957 June
Note: Includes casting notes.
Box   13
Folder   6
Production notes, script rewrites
Director's script
Box   13
Folder   7
“A”
Box   13
Folder   8
“B”
Box   13
Folder   9
Clean script, annotated script
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1958 April 29
Box   14
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1958, undated
Note: Includes production notes, programs.
Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1959 May 5
Box   14
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1959 May
Note: Also includes production notes, director's script.
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Alley Theatre (Houston, Texas), 1959 September 9
Box   14
Folder   3
Program
Clandestine in the Morning Line by Josh Greenfeld, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1959 November 24
Box   14
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1959 May-1960 April
Note: Includes production notes, original script.
Box   14
Folder   5
Director's script
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov, translated by Stark Young, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1960 January 12
Box   14
Folder   6
Director's script
Two for the Seesaw by William Gibson, Royal Poinciana Theatre (Palm Beach, Florida), 1960 March 28
Box   14
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1960 February-April
Note: Also production notes.
Box   14
Folder   8
Director's script
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, Bucks County Playhouse (New Hope, Pennsylvania), 1960 May 23
Box   14
Folder   9
Correspondence, 1960 March-December
Note: Also production notes.
Box   15
Folder   1
Director's script
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare, Belvedere Lake Theatre (New York City), 1960 July 25
Box   15
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1960 January-1962 January
Note: Also production notes.
Twinkling of an Eye by H. Wright and Guy Andros, San Francisco Actor's Workshop (San Francisco, California), 1961 January 11
Box   15
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1959 October-1961 January
Box   15
Folder   4
Director's script
Box   15
Folder   5
Clean script
Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1961 April 4
Box   15
Folder   6
Program
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov, translated by Stark Young, Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Illinois), 1961 April 9
Box   15
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1959 February-1961 February
Note: Also production notes, program.
Box   15
Folder   8
Director's script
Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht, adapted by John Holmstrom, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1961 October 30
Box   15
Folder   9
Correspondence, 1961 August-November
Note: Also production notes.
What Shall We Tell Caroline by John Mortimer, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1961 November 28
Box   15
Folder   10
Program, director's script
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, McCarter Theatre (Princeton, New Jersey), 1962 January 12
Package   1
Poster
The Burning of the Lepers by Wallace Hamilton, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1962 March 20
Box   16
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1961 May-1963 July
Note: Also production notes.
Box   16
Folder   2
Director's script
Box   16
Folder   3
Hamilton's script
Box   16
Folder   4
Script with new additions
Box   16
Folder   5
Clean script
Box   16
Folder   6
Rewrites
Box   16
Folder   7
Obsolete pages
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov, translated by Stark Young, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1962 April 17
Box   16
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1961
Note: Also floor plan, cast and crew list, program.
The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1962 March 15
Box   16
Folder   9
Correspondence, undated
Note: Also clippings, program, director's script (Acts I and II).
Box   16
Folder   10
Director's script (Acts III, IV, V)
All the Way Home by Tad Mosel, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1963 March 12
Box   17
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1963
Note: Also floor plans, program, director's script.
Othello by William Shakespeare, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1963 April 10
Box   17
Folder   2
Light cues, program, director's script
The Threepenny Opera, text and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht; music by Kurt Weill, adapted by Marc Blitzstein, Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.), 1963 May 14
Box   17
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1962 July-1963 October
Note: Also production notes, program.
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Tyrone Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 1964 June 1
Box   17
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1963 October-1964 October
Note: Also technical production notes.
Box   17
Folder   5
Production notes, programs
Box   17
Folder   6
Director's script
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee, Coconut Grove Playhouse (Miami, Florida), 1967 January 17
Box   17
Folder   7
Program
University and College
Jim Dandy by William Saroyan, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1941 October 29 and 1942 July 15
Box   18
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1941 August-November
Note: Also production notes, student critiques.
Athaliah by Jean Racine, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1942 March 17
Box   18
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1942, undated
Note: Also casting and production notes, especially regarding chorus.
Child's Play (Le Joux des Enfants) by Paul Armont and Paul Vandenberghe, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1942 August 20
Box   18
Folder   3
Director's script
The Romancers by Edmund Rostand, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1943 August 4
Box   18
Folder   4
Finance statement, program, director's script
The Doctor in Spite of Himself by Moliere, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1944 August 9
Box   18
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1944
Note: Also production notes, programs.
Box   18
Folder   6
Director's script
Lute Song by Kao-Tong-Kia, adapted by Will Irwin and Sidney Howard, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1944 November 19
Box   18
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1944 June-1946 March
Note: Also production notes, program, director's script.
The Tidings Brought to Mary by Paul Claudel, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1945 February 18
Box   18
Folder   8
Production notes, program, director's script
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1945 August 5
Box   18
Folder   9
Director's script
Electra by Sophocles, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1945 November 30
Box   19
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1945
Note: Also director's script, program.
That's Where the Money Goes by James Finley, Jean Kerr, and Joan O'Bryne, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1946 May 10
Box   19
Folder   2
Lyrics, program, director's script
State Occasion by Clinch Calkins, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1946 November 29
Box   19
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1946-1947
Note: Also expense statement, program, director's script.
The Real McCoy by John Finch, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1949 December 2
Box   19
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1948 November-1949 December
Note: Also production notes, program.
Box   19
Folder   5
Original script, revision notes
Box   19
Folder   6
Director's script
Oedipus the King by Sophocles, adapted by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1950 March 17
Box   20
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1950 March-April
Note: Also production notes, program.
The Madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giradoux, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1950 October 27
Box   20
Folder   2
Production notes, director's script
Pullman Car Hiawatha by Thornton Wilder, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1950 Fall
Box   20
Folder   3
Clean script
Othello by William Shakespeare, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1951 March 2
Box   20
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1951 March
Note: Also production notes, program.
Box   20
Folder   5
Director's script
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov, translated by Stark Young, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1951 November 30
Box   20
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1951 October-December
Note: Also production notes, set sketches, floor plan, program.
Box   20
Folder   7
Director's script
Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1952 March 21
Box   20
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1952, undated
Note: Also production notes, program, director's script.
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), 1952 December 5
Box   20
Folder   9
Production notes, director's script
The Enchanted by Jean Giradoux, adapted by Maurice Valency, Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts), 1957 May 3
Box   21
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1957 January-May
Note: Also production notes.
Box   21
Folder   2
Director's script
Package   1
Poster
Wilder and Wilder: The Happy Journey, The Long Christmas Dinner, Pullman Car Hiawatha by Thornton Wilder, Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, New York), 1958 May 15
Box   21
Folder   3
Production notes, program, director's script
The Detective Story by Sidney Kingsley, Boston University (Boston, Massachusetts), 1960 February 24
Box   21
Folder   4
Director's script
Two by Two: The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco and Pullman Car Hiawatha by Thornton Wilder, Hofstra College (Long Island, New York), 1961 May 12
Box   21
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1960 June-1961 October
Note: Also production notes, director's script.
Theatre in 3D: The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, The Dock Brief by John Mortimer, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), 1961 July 25
Box   21
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1960-1961
Note: Also production notes, director's script.
The Dumbwaiter by Harold Pinter, Pullman Car Hiawatha by Thornton Wilder, and Act Without Words II by Samuel Beckett, Fred Miller Theatre (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), 1962 July 10
Box   21
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1962 January-March
Note: Also brochures, Pullman Car clean script.
Package   1
Poster
Man is Man by Bertolt Brecht, English version by Gerhard Nellhaus, Stanford University (Palo Alto, California), 1962 August 9
Box   21
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1961 October-1962 July
Note: Also production notes, program, script revisions.
Foreign
My Heart's in the Highlands by William Saroyan, Dartington Hall Barn Theatre (London, England), 1949 July 1
Box   22
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1947 May-1949 October
Box   22
Folder   2
Production notes, program
Box   22
Folder   3
Director's script
Box   22
Folder   4
Summer conference notes regarding Schneider lecture
Pullman Car Hiawatha by Thornton Wilder, Dartington Hall Barn Theatre (London, England), 1952 Summer
Box   22
Folder   5
Casting notes, annotated actor's script
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, Sarah Bernhardt Theatre (Paris, France), 1955 June 28
Note: Paris company toured: 1955 July 18-30, National Theatre, Washington, D.C.; 1955 August 1-13, Blackstone Theatre, Chicago, Illinois; August 16-September 3, ANTA Theatre, New York City.
Box   22
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1955 February-1956 January
Box   22
Folder   7
Production notes
Box   22
Folder   8
Director's script
The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote, Arts Theatre Club (London, England), 1956 July 4
Note: Also directed 1956 September 10, Theatre Royal, Brighton, England; and 1956 August 20, Olympia Theatre, England.
Box   23
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1956 April-May
Box   23
Folder   2
Production notes, program
Box   23
Folder   3
Director's script
The Deserters by (Norman) Thaddeus Vane, Royal Court Theatre (Liverpool, England), 1958 August 11
Note: Liverpool company toured: Leeds, Manchester, Brighton.
Box   23
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1957 October-1958 August
Box   23
Folder   5
Production notes
Box   23
Folder   6
Director's script
Box   23
Folder   7
Original script: April is the Cruelest Month
Clean script
Box   23
Folder   8
“A”
Box   23
Folder   9
“B”
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, Piccadilly Theatre (London, England), 1964 February 6
Box   23
Folder   10
Program
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov, Cameri Theatre (Tel Aviv, Israel), 1966 July 20
Box   23
Folder   11
Program, director's script
Radio, Television, and Film
Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan, adapted by Don Agger, Voice of America (Radio), 1961
Box   24
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1961
Note: Also production notes, director's script.
Oedipus the King by Sophocles, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, adapted by Walter Kerr, Omnibus (NBC-TV), 1957 January 6
Box   24
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1956 August-1957 October
Note: Also production notes, clippings.
Box   24
Folder   3
Director's script
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Lee, Omnibus (NBC-TV), 1957 December 15
Box   24
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1959-1963
Note: Also production notes.
Box   24
Folder   5
Director's script
Box   25
Folder   1
Clean script
The Years Between by Will Schneider and Herman Goldberg, Studio One (CBS-TV), 1958 February
Box   25
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1957
Note: Also bills, production notes.
Box   25
Folder   3
Director's script, first review
Box   25
Folder   4
Director's script, second review
Box   25
Folder   5
Director's script
Script
Box   25
Folder   6
First revision
Box   25
Folder   7
Second revision
Box   25
Folder   8
Act III script
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Play of the Week (WNTA-TV), 1960 April 13
Box   25
Folder   9
Correspondence, 1960
Note: Also production notes.
Box   26
Folder   1
Director's script
The Secret of Freedom by Archibald MacLeish (NBC Film for TV), 1960 February 28
Box   26
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1959 May-1960 July
Note: Also production notes.
Box   26
Folder   3
Director's script
Project I: An Untitled Script by Samuel Beckett, The Hard Boiled Egg by Eugene Ionesco, The Compartment by Harold Pinter (Film), 1964 Summer
Box   26
Folder   4
Clean script
Miscellany
Box   1
Folder   1
University of Wisconsin Play scripts (Schneider acted in)
The Girl and the Umbrella by Alan Schneider, adapted from The Man in the Bowler Hat by A.A. Milne, Bowie High School (Bowie, Maryland), 1939 October
Box   27
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1939
Note: Also three well worn scripts.
Box   1
Folder   2
Wartime: 5 radio scripts; 1 video script (Schneider acted in)
A Night in the Country by Betty Smith and Robert Finch, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), 1949 November
Box   27
Folder   2
Director's script
The Chief Thing by N. Evreinov, Cornell University Theatre (Ithaca, New York), 1941 March 7
Note: Schneider was assistant director to H. Darkes Albright and directed one act.
Box   27
Folder   3
Clean script
Storm Operation by Maxwell Anderson, Belasco Theatre (New York City), 1943 December-1944
Note: Schneider acted in, asstant stage managed, and under studied this show; Schneider's first and only appearance on Broadway as an actor.
Box   27
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1943-1945
Note: Also contract, two Act II, Scene II scripts.
The Long Goodbye by Tennessee Williams, Theatre Inc. (New York City), 1947 December 9 and , 1948 April 8
Box   27
Folder   5
Two scripts, notes, and program for December production; one clean script and program for April production
Gruach by Gordon Bottomley, Studio 63 of Theatre Inc. (New York City), 1947-1949
Box   27
Folder   6
Two clean scripts
Mid-Passage by Arnold Sundgaard Theatre Inc. (New York City): exercise: , 1947 Fall; production: , 1948 Spring
Box   27
Folder   7
Director's script, working script, assistant stage manager's script, clean script
The Hungerers by William Saroyan, American Theatre Wing (New York City, directing class under Lee Strasberg), 1948 Fall
Box   27
Folder   8
Director's script
The Victors by Jean-Paul Sartre, New Stages (New York City; Schneider was assistant director), 1948 December 26
Box   27
Folder   9
Correspondence, 1948
Note: Also contract, clipping, program, clean script.
Make a Statue Laugh by Arnold Shulman, Actors Studio (New York City), 1948
Note: Schneider's first work.
Box   27
Folder   10
Director's script, program
Greasy Luck by Rachel Field, ABC-TV, 1949 February 27
Note: Schneider was stage manager.
Box   27
Folder   11
Stage manager's script
Untitled script, Actors Studio (New York City), 1950
Box   27
Folder   12
Clean script
Herakles by Archibald MacLeish, Mendelsohn Theatre, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) with APA Repertory Company, 1965
Box   27
Folder   13
Program
Barge Incident by Herb Meadows
Note: A play Schneider acted in and directed several times.
Box   27
Folder   14
Clean script
Box   27
Folder   15
Pullman Car Hiawatha by Thornton Wilder
Note: Schneider directed several productions of this, however, identifiable scripts are not available for each.
Subseries: Subseries 3: Scripts Read or Worked On, but Not Directed By Schneider
Scope and Content Note: Scripts in this subseries are arranged alphabetically by author in the list which follows. When a play has been adapted or translated by someone other than the original author, the information is also included with each entry. In most cases, blank or “clean” scripts are described in the play entry. Occasionally, there may be a “note” or “inscription by Schneider” which means that Schneider commented about the play or author on a separate sheet of paper or directly on the script itself. For those scripts which Schneider intended to direct, but for some reason did not, the related materials are arranged in the following order: correspondence, production notes, director's script, and various other scripts and revisions.
Box   1
Folder   1
Script idea regarding Alexander Hamilton
Box   1
Folder   2
Unidentified script 1, annotated
Box   1
Folder   3
Unidentified script 2
Box   1
Folder   4
Unidentified script 3
Box   1
Folder   5
Unidentified script 4
Dawn's Early Light
Box   1
Folder   6
Clean script
A Fire is a Small Red Flower
Box   1
Folder   7
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Five in the Afternoon
Box   1
Folder   8
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Fragment of a Last Judgment
Box   1
Folder   9
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
The Friendship
Box   2
Folder   1
Clean script
A Great Career
Box   2
Folder   2
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Love and Marriage
Box   2
Folder   3
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Now It is Summer
Box   2
Folder   4
Clean script
The Overture
Box   2
Folder   5
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
The Prince of Mandalore
Box   2
Folder   6
Clean script
Seven Days of Mourning
Box   2
Folder   7
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Box   2
Folder   8
Adams, James, untitled script for film
Alson, Lawrence, Party
Box   2
Folder   9
Clean script
Anderson, Maxwell, Mountains of the Morning
Box   2
Folder   10
Clean script, clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Anderson, Robert, Tea and Sympathy
Box   2
Folder   11
Clean script
Andrew, James, Last Days of a Young Man
Box   3
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1960
Note: Also script notes, clean script “A”.
Box   3
Folder   2
Clean script “B”
Box   3
Folder   3
Clean script “C”
Box   3
Folder   4
Scene revisions
Anouilh, Jean, Colombe, version by Denis Cannan
Box   3
Folder   5
Clean script
Appell, Don, A Girl Could Get Lucky
Box   3
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1945
Note: Also clean script.
Apstein, Theodore, Illusion
Box   3
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1951
Note: Also clean script, production notes.
Arbuzov, Alexey, An Irkutsk Story, translated by Gala Ebin
Box   4
Folder   1
Clean script
Artzi, Avraham, On an Open Roof
Box   4
Folder   2
Clean script, correspondence, undated
Note: See also Inlender, Avraham, Kadish.
Audiberti, Jacques, The Lodgers, adapted by Maurice Valency
Box   4
Folder   3
Clean script, note by Schneider
Auerbach, George, A Meeting at the Summit
Box   4
Folder   4
Clean script
Avidan, David, Cambarole
Box   4
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1966-1967
Note: Includes book of poems by author.
Ayme, Marcel, Clerambard
Box   4
Folder   6
Clean script
Baker, Russell, Seventeen Sketches
Box   4
Folder   7
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Beckerman, Bernard, Orestes Poised
Box   4
Folder   8
Clean script
Bellah, James, Ward Twenty
Box   4
Folder   9
Clean script
Best, Charles, The Kids
Box   4
Folder   10
Clean script, notes
Bigelow, Otis, The Giant's Dance
Box   5
Folder   1
Clean script
Bigelow, Otis, The Peacock Season (The Mariner Method or The Grand Mariner)
Box   5
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1961-1962
Note: Also contracts, production notes.
Box   5
Folder   3
Director's script
Box   5
Folder   4
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Boland, Gene, The Unforgiving Minute
Box   5
Folder   5
Clean script, note by Schneider
Boland, Herbert, Battle Dream
Box   5
Folder   6
Director's script
Bolton, Guy, Child of Fortune
Box   5
Folder   7
Clean script, correspondence, 1955
Bolton, Guy, Fireworks in the Sun
Box   6
Folder   1
Clean script
Bowles, Jane, In the Sumner House
Box   6
Folder   2
Clean script
Bridges, James, Bachelor Furnished
Box   6
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1965
Note: Also clean script (inscription by Schneider).
Bridges, James, K Like in Karma
Box   6
Folder   4
Two clean scripts (inscription by Schneider)
Broderick, Patricia, With or Without People
Box   6
Folder   5
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Broskiewicz, Jerzy, The Two Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver
Box   6
Folder   6
Clean script, reader's report
Brown, Kenneth, The Happy Bar
Box   6
Folder   7
Correspondence regarding all of author's plays, 1965-1967
Box   6
Folder   8
Clean script
Brown, Kenneth, Right of Passage
Box   6
Folder   9
Clean script
Burton, Michael and Philip Burton, The Lime Twig
Box   6
Folder   10
Clean script, notes by Schneider
Callahan, Edward, The Shadow Game
Box   7
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1965
Note: Also clean script.
Cannon, Bill, Brewster McLeod's (Sexy) Flying Machines
Box   7
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1965
Note: Also clean film script.
Carlino, Lewis, Cry of Victory
Box   7
Folder   3
Clean scripts “A” and “B”
Carlino, Lewis, Never the Fallow Land
Box   7
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1960
Note: Also clean script.
Castelli, Bertrand with Jack Raphael Guss, The Umbrella
Box   7
Folder   5
Clean script
Catron, Louis, Centaur, Centaur
Box   7
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1966-1967
Note: Also clean script.
Chase, Mary, Midgie Purvis
Box   7
Folder   7
Clean script
Cluchey, Rick, Le Cage
Box   8
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1965-1966
Note: Also clean script.
Cocteau, Jean, Antigone
Box   8
Folder   2
Clean script
Cohen, Lester, The Web and the Rock
Box   8
Folder   3
Clean script
Cole, Nancy, Gertrude by Gertrude by Stein
Box   8
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1967
Note: Also clean script.
Conover, Grandin, The Party on Greenwich Avenue
Box   8
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1966-1967
Note: Also clean script, notes by Schneider.
Cooper, Richard and Parker Baratta, Jack Enter Critic
Box   8
Folder   6
Clean script
Copito, Benjamin, Wanda and the Rent Collector
Box   8
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1961
Note: Also clean script.
Cornish, Roger, A Short Play for Closed Circuit Television
Box   8
Folder   8
Clean script (inscription by Schneider), reader's report
Costigan, James, A Wind from the South
Box   8
Folder   9
Clean script, notes by Schneider
Cross, Beverley, Belle or The Ballad of Doctor Crippen
Box   8
Folder   10
Correspondence, 1964
Note: Also clean script (inscription by Schneider).
Davies, Robertson, A Comedy of Conscience
Box   8
Folder   11
Clean scenario
Denker, William, About William
Box   8
Folder   12
Clean script, notes by Schneider
Denker, Henry, Libel
Box   9
Folder   1
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Denker, Henry, The Name of the Game
Box   9
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1966
Note: Also clean script, production notes.
Denker, Henry, A Sound of Distant Thunder
Box   9
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1959
Note: Also annotated script, production notes.
Box   9
Folder   4
Revised script (inscription by Schneider)
Dennison, George, The Service for Joseph Axminster
Box   9
Folder   5
Clean script, note by Schneider
Devany, Edward, Refuge
Box   9
Folder   6
Clean script in Folio magazine (inscription by Schneider)
Dewey, Kenneth, Close-Up Shot
Box   9
Folder   7
Clean script
Dick, Paul, Cybele
Box   9
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1967
Note: Also scenario, note by Schneider.
Drexler, Rosalyn, The Investigation
Box   9
Folder   9
Clean script, notes by Schneider
Ducovny, Amram and Leon Friedman, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Box   9
Folder   10
Correspondence, 1966-1967
Note: Also notes by Schneider.
Box   9
Folder   11
Original clean script
Box   10
Folder   1
Script rewrite “A”
Box   10
Folder   2
Script rewrite “B”
Dunster, Claude, The Mermaid
Box   10
Folder   3
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Dunster, Claude, Tecumseh
Box   10
Folder   4
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Duras, Marguerite, Lol Blair (Project II)
Box   10
Folder   5
Clean script
Durrenmatt, Friedrich, The Visit, adapted by Maurice Valency
Box   10
Folder   6
Clean script
Eaton, Joseph, Color Scheme
Box   10
Folder   7
Script for Act II, Scene I, character synopsis
Eisenstein, Mark, I, Alone
Box   10
Folder   8
Clean script
Ellis, David, The Golden Key
Box   10
Folder   9
Clean script
Faulkner, William, Requiem
Box   10
Folder   10
Clean script
Feist, Gene, A Toy for the Clowns and Casey and the Bat
Box   11
Folder   1
Clean script
Feist, Gene, Wretched the Lionhearted
Box   11
Folder   2
Clean script
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, Routines
Box   11
Folder   3
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, Three Thousand Red Ants
Box   11
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1963
Note: Also clean script.
Fields, Joseph and Jerome Chodorov, The Ponder Heart
Box   11
Folder   5
Clean script
Filippo, Edward de and Curcio Armand, Fortuna, adapted by Arnold Weinstein
Box   11
Folder   6
Clean script
Floyd, Carlisle, Susannah (opera)
Box   11
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1964-1965
Note: Also clean script.
Foote, Horton, Traveling Lady
Box   11
Folder   8
Clean script
Forsyth, James, Defiant Island
Box   11
Folder   9
Correspondence, 1962
Note: Also clean script.
Forsyth, James, Trog
Box   11
Folder   10
Correspondence, clean script, undated
Frakes, Jack, Joey
Box   12
Folder   11
Clean script
Franklin, George, Buds
Box   12
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1962
Note: Also clean script.
Franklin, George, Switching
Box   12
Folder   2
Clean script
Franklin, George, The Windmill
Box   12
Folder   3
Clean script
Fratti, Mario, Collection of One-Acts, published in Italian Theatre Review
Box   12
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1964-1965Italian Theatre Review
Fratti, Mario, The Refrigerators
Box   12
Folder   5
Clean script, reader's report
Friedman, Roy, Jake Garner's Dead
Box   12
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1965
Note: Also clean script, note by Schneider.
Friedman, Roy, Scherzo
Box   12
Folder   7
Clean script
Furland, Maxine, Biscuit
Box   12
Folder   8
Clean script
Gagliano, Frank, Night of the Dunce
Box   12
Folder   9
Clean script, note by Schneider
Gargi, Balwant, The Dark Ritual
Box   12
Folder   10
Correspondence, 1966
Note: Also clean script, note by Schneider.
Gazzo, Michael Vincente, The Night Circus
Box   12
Folder   11
Clean script
Geiger, Milton, Carved in Snow
Box   13
Folder   1
Clean script, notes by Schneider
Gelb, Philip, Footnotes
Box   13
Folder   2
Clean script
Gelber, Jack, The Connection
Box   13
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1960 Also production notes.
Box   13
Folder   4
Director's script
Gerolmo, Frank, House of Cards (or Dealer's Choice)
Box   13
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1959-1960 Also Dealer's Choice script.
Box   13
Folder   6
Clean script “A”
Box   13
Folder   7
Clean script “B”
Gilroy, Frank, That Summer, That Fall
Box   14
Folder   1
Clean script (inscription by Schneider), note by Schneider
Giradoux, Jean, Ondine, adapted by Maurice Valency
Box   14
Folder   2
Clean script
Gluck, Marvin, Danny
Box   14
Folder   3
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Gogol, Nikolai, The Inspector General, translated by Nikolajs Lapkass and Richard Moody
Box   14
Folder   4
Clean script
Goldoni, The Liar, adapted by Edward Eager and Alfred Drake
Box   14
Folder   5
Clean script
Grass, Gunter, The Plebians, translated by Ninon Tallon Karlweiss
Box   14
Folder   6
Clean script, note by Schneider
Grazia, Edward de, The Coronet Players
Box   14
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1962-1963
Note: Also clean script.
Gregg, Jess, A Secret Hiding Place
Box   14
Folder   8
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Greene, Henry, Will the Real Mr. Bressman Please Stand Up
Box   15
Folder   1
Clean script, note by Schneider
Greenfeld, Josh, Big
Box   15
Folder   2
Clean script
Greenfeld, Josh, The Boy Who Sold Dreams at the YMCA
Box   15
Folder   3
Clean script
Hall, Sam, Asleep in Mexico
Box   15
Folder   4
Clean script
Hamilton, Wallace, Bunny Boy
Box   15
Folder   5
Clean script (inscription by Schneider), note by Schneider
Harding, John Briard, Kinderspiel
Box   15
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1959-1963
Note: Also clean script.
Harris, Mark, The Southpaw
Box   15
Folder   7
Clean script, note by Schneider
Hart, Howard, A Piece of Noon
Box   15
Folder   8
Correspondence, undated
Note: Also clean script.
Hastings, John, A Game of Tag
Box   15
Folder   9
Correspondence, 1963-1967
Note: Also clean script, note by Schneider.
Hastings, John, The Purple Cow
Box   15
Folder   10
Clean script
Havel, Vaclav, The Memorandum
Box   15
Folder   11
Clean script, note by Schneider
Havoc, June, Marathon '33
Box   16
Folder   1
Clean script
Hayes, Joseph, The Third Day (film)
Box   16
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1964
Note: Also clean script with inscription by Schneider.
Box   16
Folder   3
Unrevised proofs with inscription by Schneider
Henry, W.B., The Smallest Sound (Film)
Box   16
Folder   4
Correspondence, undated
Note: Also clean script with note by Schneider.
Herndon, Venable, Bag of Flies
Box   16
Folder   5
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Heyward, Dorothy, Set My People Free
Box   16
Folder   6
Clean script
Box   16
Folder   7
Hochwaelder, Fritz, The Public Prosecutor
Hoffman, Cert, Our Man in Madras
Box   17
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1967
Note: Also clean script, note by Schneider.
Hoffman, Theodore, A Good Time at God's Expense (or Yecch a la Mode)
Box   17
Folder   2
Clean script
Hosansky, Mel, Manoa
Box   17
Folder   3
Clean script
Inge, William, Bus Stop
Box   17
Folder   7
Clean script
Inlender, Avraham, Kadish
Box   17
Folder   8
Clean script
Ionesco, Eugene, Bedlam Galore for Two or More, translated by Bernard Frechtman
Box   17
Folder   4
Clean script “A” (inscription by Schneider), clean script “B”, note by Schneider
Ionesco, Eugene, Exit the King, translated by Donald Watson
Box   17
Folder   5
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Ionesco, Eugene, The Killer, translated by Donald Watson
Box   17
Folder   6
Clean script
Jacob, Dick, Eggshell
Box   17
Folder   9
Correspondence, 1962
Note: Also clean script, “A”, Act III rewrite.
Box   17
Folder   10
Clean script “B”
Johannesson, Cary, The Execution of Eddie Slovik
Box   18
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1964
Note: Also clean script, clippings, program.
Johannson, Arthur, The Tin Soldier
Box   18
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1962
Note: Also clean script.
Jones, Le Roi, A Recent Killing
Box   18
Folder   3
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Jonson, Ben, Volpone
Box   18
Folder   4
Clean script
Kalcheim, Lee, Don't Call Us
Box   18
Folder   5
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Kalcheim, Lee, A Party for Divorce
Box   18
Folder   6
Clean script
Kennedy, Adrienne, A Rat's Mass
Box   18
Folder   7
Clean script (inscription by Schneider), note by Schneider
Kerman, Sheppard, The Cut of the Ax
Box   18
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1957-1960
Note: Also clean script.
Kerner, Ben, All Women Are One
Box   18
Folder   9
Clean script
Kerr, Walter, The Theatre Breaks Loose (TV)
Box   18
Folder   10
Clean script
Kiiras, Oskari, The Mad Emperor
Box   19
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1967
Note: Also clean script.
Kinsolving, William, Nicholas Romanov
Box   19
Folder   2
Clean script, note by Schneider
Koch, Kenneth, George Washington Crossing the Delaware
Box   19
Folder   3
Clean script
Kranes, Dick, One Right After the Other
Box   19
Folder   4
Clean script, note by Schneider
Lania, Leo, The Good Soldier Schweik
Box   20
Folder   1
Clean script
Lewis, Andy and Dave Lewis, The Infantry
Box   20
Folder   2
Clean script, note by Schneider
Lewis, George (penname for Nat Sherman), The Washington Years
Box   20
Folder   3
Clean script
Mandel, Loring, Project Immortality
Box   20
Folder   4
Clean script, note by Schneider
Mankowitz, Wolf, Expresso Bongo
Box   20
Folder   5
Clean script
Martens, Gaston-Marie, Beggars in Paradise, translated by Marston Balch
Box   20
Folder   6
Clean script
Max, Jerome, The Furthermost Finger of Fillmore
Box   20
Folder   7
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Max, Jerome, What Color Goes With Brown?
Box   20
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1964-1965
Note: Also clean script.
McGuire, Michael, Point Conception
Box   20
Folder   9
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
McNally, Terence, And Things That Go Bump in the Night
Box   21
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1964
Note: Also production notes, director's script.
Mercier, Mary, Johnny No-Trump
Box   21
Folder   2
Clean script, notes by Schneider
Miller, E.H., Children in the Markets
Box   21
Folder   3
Clean script
Miller, Sigmund, Lovely Star, Good Night
Box   21
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1958
Note: Also production notes, clippings.
Box   21
Folder   5
Director's script
Miranda, Edgard de Roche, Crime D'Amour
Box   21
Folder   6
Clean script
Molinaro, Orsule, After the Wash
Box   21
Folder   7
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Molloy, Michael, The King of Friday's Men
Box   21
Folder   8
Correspondence, undated
Note: Also clean script.
Morgenstern, Joseph, Lovey
Box   21
Folder   9
Clean script
Morris, Aldythe, The Damien Letter
Box   22
Folder   1
Clean script
Morris, Aldythe, The Secret Concubine
Box   22
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1959
Note: Also production notes, clean script.
Box   22
Folder   3
Princeton version (annotated by Schneider)
Box   22
Folder   4
Clean script revised for New York production
Mortenghi, Frances Canavan, All Orbs Ajangle on a Pogo Stick
Box   22
Folder   5
Clean script
Mrozek, Slaivomir, Striptease
Box   22
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1963-1966
Note: Also clean script, notes on Tango
Muller, Romeo, The Great Git-Away
Box   22
Folder   7
Clean script
Muller, Romeo, Like Wonderful
Box   22
Folder   8
Clean script
Noah, Robert, The Advocate
Box   22
Folder   9
Clean script
O'Brien, Liam, Haste to the Wedding
Box   22
Folder   10
Clean script
O'Hara, John, You Are My Sister
Box   23
Folder   1
Clean script
Oliansky, Joel, Putting on the Agony
Box   23
Folder   2
Clean script, notes by Schneider
Oppenheimer, Joel, The Great American Desert
Box   23
Folder   3
Annotated script
Oppenheimer, Joel, The Perfect Detonator
Box   23
Folder   4
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Osborn, Paul, Point of No Return
Box   23
Folder   5
Clean script
O'Sullivan, Michael, Grand Parade to Paradise
Box   23
Folder   6
Clean script, notes by Schneider
Owens, Rochelle, Beclch
Box   23
Folder   7
Clean script, note by Schneider
Packard, William, From Now On
Box   23
Folder   8
Clean script, note by Schneider
Pagnol, Marcel, The Baker's Wife
Box   23
Folder   9
Clean script
Pasch, Robert, Love is an Inkblot in Time
Box   23
Folder   10
Clean script
Perkins, Aveline, Go, Wondrous Creature!
Box   24
Folder   1
Clean script
Perkins, Lynn, The Ghost Children
Box   24
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1958
Note: Also clean script, production notes.
Perr, Harvey, The Coconut Grove
Box   24
Folder   3
Clean script
Peterson, Don, Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
Box   24
Folder   4
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Petronio, Louis Anthony, Three Short Plays
Box   24
Folder   5
Clean script
Phipps, Thomas, Four Winds
Box   24
Folder   6
Clean script
Phipps, Thomas, Motel
Box   24
Folder   7
Clean script
Pirandello, Luigi, Enrico IV, adapted by John Reich
Box   24
Folder   8
Annotated script
Pitt, Dale, Eye of the Beholder
Box   24
Folder   9
Clean script
Pressman, Kenneth, Hunting the Jingo Bird
Box   24
Folder   10
Clean script
Presson, Jay, Stars in a Person's Backyard
Box   25
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1953
Note: Also, production notes, director's script.
Pritchard, Barry, Visions of Sugar Plums
Box   25
Folder   2
Clean script, note by Schneider
Rella, Ettore, Sign of Winter
Box   25
Folder   3
Clean script
Rice, Elmer, As the Sparks Fly Upward
Box   25
Folder   4
Clean script
Richards, Stanley, Journey to Bahia
Box   25
Folder   5
Clean script
Rittenberg, Louis, The Violet
Box   25
Folder   6
Clean script
Roberts, William David, The So-Called People
Box   25
Folder   7
Clean script
Robins, Sam, Answered the Flute
Box   25
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1956
Note: Also clean script.
Robinson, Charles, October Gal
Box   25
Folder   9
Clean script
Rodel, There Was a Crooked Mouse (Film)
Box   26
Folder   1
Clean script, note by Schneider
Rossett, Alan, An East River Dream
Box   26
Folder   2
Clean script
Roussin, Andre, The Eggs of the Ostrich, adapted by James Broughton
Box   26
Folder   3
Clean script
Rubin, Mann, The Confetti People
Box   26
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1964
Note: Also clean script.
Rubin, Mann, The Trees of Promise
Box   26
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1956-1962
Box   26
Folder   6
Financial records and contracts, production notes
Box   26
Folder   7
Script, first draft
Box   26
Folder   8
Director's script
Box   26
Folder   9
Clean script
Sackler, Howard, A Few Enquiries
Box   27
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1965
Note: Also clean script, note by Schneider.
Sackler, Howard, The Great White Hope
Box   27
Folder   2
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Sainer, Arthur, God Wants What Men Want
Box   27
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1963-1964
Note: Also clean script (inscription by Schneider).
Scheuer, Steven, The Ordeal of John Henry Faulk
Box   27
Folder   4
Clean script
Schisgal, Murray, Jimmy Shine
Box   27
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1965
Note: Also clean script.
Schochen, Seyril, A Blue Island
Box   27
Folder   6
Clean script
Schochen, Seyril, The Moon Besieged
Box   27
Folder   7
Clean script
Schochen, Seyril, The Tiger Rag
Box   27
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1955-1960
Note: Also production notes.
Box   27
Folder   9
Director's script
Schrock, J. Gladden, The Green Lute
Box   27
Folder   10
Clean script, note by Schneider
Schulman, Arnold and Mel Goldberg, A Thousand Guys Named Max
Box   28
Folder   1
Clean script
Scott, Alan, The Second Monkey
Box   28
Folder   2
Clean script, notes by Schneider
Serment, Jean, The Children's Playhouse
Box   28
Folder   3
Clean script
Shakespeare, William, Antony and Cleopatra
Box   28
Folder   4
Production notes
Shakespeare, William, Julius Caesar
Box   28
Folder   5
Clean script
Shepard, Sam, Icarus
Box   28
Folder   6
Clean script, note by Schneider
Sherwood, Robert, Small War on Murray Hill
Box   28
Folder   7
Clean script
Shure, Robert, The Ocarina
Box   28
Folder   8
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Shure, Robert, The Tickle of Passion
Box   28
Folder   9
Clean script
Shure, Robert, The Waiting Room
Box   28
Folder   10
Correspondence, 1962
Note: Also clean script.
Smith, E., Release
Box   28
Folder   11
Clean script
Smith, Michael, The Next Thing
Box   29
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1964-1965
Note: Also clean script.
Snyder, William, Jr., Mrs. Bridge
Box   29
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1961
Note: Also annotated script.
Spencer, Franz, The Happy Ant Hill
Box   29
Folder   3
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Spewack, Samuel, Under the Sycamore Tree
Box   29
Folder   4
Clean script
Stavis, Barrie, Banners of Steel
Box   29
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1961-1964
Note: Also clean script (inscription by Schneider).
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island, adapted by John C. Fleming
Box   29
Folder   6
Clean script
Sundgaard, Arnold, Forests of the Night
Box   29
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1965
Note: Also clean script, “A”.
Box   29
Folder   8
Clean script “B”
Tabori, George, The Cannibals
Box   29
Folder   9
Clean script, note by Schneider
Tabori, George, The Niggerlovers
Box   30
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1967
Note: Also clean script, note by Schneider.
Taylor, Douglas, The Sudden and Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson
Box   30
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1964-1965
Note: Also clean script (inscription by Schneider).
Box   30
Folder   3
Clean script
Terkel, Studs, Amazing Grace
Box   30
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1965-1966
Note: Also clean script, “A”.
Box   30
Folder   5
Clean script, “B”
Terry, Megan, Cowboys, Custers and Indians
Box   30
Folder   6
Correspondence regarding all of her plays, 1960-1967
Note: Also clean script (inscription by Schneider).
Terry, Megan, The Hothouse
Box   30
Folder   7
Clean script “A”, clean script “B” (inscription by Schneider)
Terry, Megan, Seascape
Box   31
Folder   1
Clean script
Thayler, Carl, Grail
Box   31
Folder   2
Clean script
Thomas, Dylan, Under Milk Wood
Box   31
Folder   3
Clean script
Thomas, Lee, The Condition
Box   31
Folder   4
Clean script, note by Schneider
Torn, Jesse, A Fig Leaf in Her Bonnet
Box   31
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1960
Note: Also clean script.
Valency, Maurice, The Destroying Angel
Box   31
Folder   6
Clean script
Valency, Maurice, A Legend of Good Women
Box   31
Folder   7
Clean script
Vane, Norman Thaddeus, The Expatriate
Box   31
Folder   8
Clean script
Vickers, John, Enquire Within
Box   31
Folder   9
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Vlahos, John, The Miracle at Minskeys
Box   31
Folder   10
Clean script
Ward, Larry and Gordon Russell, Masterpiece
Box   31
Folder   11
Clean script
Warren, Robert Penn, Ballad of a Sweet Dream
Box   32
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1961-1962
Note: Also music, clean script.
Weinstein, Arnold, The Dance
Box   32
Folder   2
Clean script
Weinstein, Arnold, Packed with Action
Box   32
Folder   3
Clean script
Weinstein, Arnold?
Box   32
Folder   4
Clean script “A”, clean script “B” (inscription by Schneider), note by Schneider
Weinstein, Arnold, The Twenty Five Cent White Cap
Box   32
Folder   5
Clean script
Weiss, Peter, The Investigation
Box   32
Folder   6
Clean script in German, note by Schneider
Wesker, Arnold, Roots
Box   32
Folder   7
Clean script
Wilder, Thornton, The Skin of Our Teeth
Box   32
Folder   8
TV script
Williams, Tennessee, Orpheus Descending
Box   32
Folder   9
Clean script
Wilmurt, Arthur, Lafcadio's Adventures
Box   32
Folder   10
Clean script
Winterbottom, Goddard, Mystery Story #1
Box   32
Folder   11
Clean script
Wishengrad, Morton, The Rope Dancer
Box   32
Folder   12
Clean script
Wolfson, Victor, Love in the City
Box   32
Folder   13
Clean script
Wolfson, Victor, None More Wonderful
Box   32
Folder   14
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Wright, Hamilton, A Lost Lady
Box   33
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1961, undated
Note: Also clean script.
Box   33
Folder   2
Clean script (inscription by Schneider)
Young, Stanley, The Big People
Box   33
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1948, 1957, undated
Note: Also clean script.
Young, Stanley, The World Next Door
Box   33
Folder   4
Clean script
Zavin, Ben, The Mask for Murder
Box   33
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1960-1963
Note: Also clean script, notes by Schneider.
Zeiger, Henry, Mr. Hubert
Box   33
Folder   6
Clean script
Zindel, Paul, Effect of the Gamma Rays
Box   33
Folder   7
Clean script (inscription by Schneider), note by Schneider
Box   33
Folder   8
Critiques and notes regarding scripts read by Schneider
Subseries: Subseries 4: Academic Materials
Scope and Content Note: The materials in this subseries are arranged chronologically in two subdivisions. The first, “Student Papers,” documents Schneider's entire formal education from elementary school to his master's degree from Cornell University. This section includes numerous speeches and research papers from the University of Wisconsin, course notes, Schneider's master's thesis from Cornell, and grade reports and transcripts from all the institutions he attended as a student. The second, “Teaching Papers” documenting Schneider's work at Catholic University and other institutions, primarily consists of teaching and lecture notes.
Student Papers
Forest Park High School
Box   1
Folder   1
Mementos, newspapers, clippings
Box   1
Folder   2
Oration: “The Aims and Merits of the N.R.A.”; speech: “No, to Federal Aid”
Box   1
Folder   3
Biology notebook
Johns Hopkins University
Box   1
Folder   4
Two research papers
Box   1
Folder   5
Notes and syllabus for history course
University of Wisconsin
Box   1
Folder   6
Oration: “The Dilemma of Democracy”
Box   1
Folder   7
Cardinal articles, miscellany
Box   1
Folder   8
Speeches and orations
Box   1
Folder   9
Play: The Young Men
Box   1
Folder   10
Plays: End of Dreams and Hands Across the Piano
Box   1
Folder   11
Revue for Wisconsin Players banquet
Volume   1
Scrapbook
Box   1
Folder   12-13
Seven research papers, 1936-1938
Box   1
Folder   14
Thirteen research papers, 1939; three , undated
Box   2
Folder   1
Papers regarding Wisconsin Players
Box   2
Folder   2
Exam books, grade cards
Box   2
Folder   3
Mementos, awards
Box   2
Folder   4
Commencement programs, notes, miscellany
Cornell University
Box   2
Folder   5
Play: We Shall Not Sleep
Box   2
Folder   6
Directing class project: A Night At An Inn
Box   2
Folder   7
Eleven research papers, 1940 July-August
Box   2
Folder   8
Eight research papers, 1941 January-May
Box   2
Folder   9
Miscellaneous writing
Box   2
Folder   10
Phonetics notes
Box   2
Folder   11
Graduate study notes
Box   3
Folder   1
Notes on technical aspects of theater
Box   3
Folder   2
Graduate notes: comedy, directing, design
Box   3
Folder   3
Rough draft of thesis
Box   3
Folder   4
Schneider's translation of Evreinov's The Theatre of Eternal War
Box   3
Folder   5
Thesis: Nicolas Evreinov and “The Theatre in Life”
Box   3
Folder   6
General academic grade records, transcripts, etc.
Box   3
Folder   7
Miscellaneous student notes
Box   3
Folder   8
Three source or idea books
Box   3
Folder   9
Scene designs by Schneider
Teaching Papers
Catholic University
Box   4
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1941-1955 notes regarding curriculum and course planning, comprehensive exams, notes regarding Russian and Contemporary Drama, miscellany
Box   4
Folder   2
Lecture notes for History of the Theatre and Development of Dramatic Form
Box   4
Folder   3
Acting course notes
Box   4
Folder   4
Materials for Pro-seminar course
Box   4
Folder   5-6
Materials for radio script writing “A” and “B”
Box   4
Folder   7
Materials for Public Speaking “A”
Box   5
Folder   1
Materials for Public Speaking “B”
Box   5
Folder   2
Notes from Fundamentals of Theatre Practice and Interpretation and Teaching of Dramatics
Box   5
Folder   3
Miscellaneous bibliographies for courses
Box   5
Folder   4
First thesis supervised by Schneider, 1943
Box   5
Folder   5
Thesis submitted to Schneider, 1946
Box   5
Folder   6-7
Theses supervised by Schneider, 1947, 1954
Box   5
Folder   8
Papers submitted to Schneider by students “A”
Box   6
Folder   1
Papers submitted to Schneider by students “B” with some comments
Box   6
Folder   2
Schneider's class book, 1944-1952
Box   6
Folder   3
Arena Stage: Acting class notes, 1952
Box   6
Folder   4
Columbia University: notes for play directing and advanced radio, 1960
Box   6
Folder   5
Circle in the Square: notes, miscellaneous materials, two student scripts
Box   6
Folder   6
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1962
Box   6
Folder   7
Long Island University: correspondence, 1966 March-1967 April notes regarding teaching, , 1966-1967
Subseries: Subseries 5: Writing Materials
Scope and Content Note: The materials in this subseries are divided into two sections. The first is “Published Writings.” This section includes articles and essays by Schneider arranged chronologically and annotated with the title of the source. The second, “Unpublished Writings,” consists of plays, poetry, short stories, and essays written by Schneider at various times during his career. There is little information regarding the specific time of writing. This category also includes notes from lectures and speeches delivered by Schneider, as well as brochures from a variety of programs in which he participated.
Published Writings
Box   1
Folder   1
“The End of Tea-Cup Theatre” Players Magazine, 1943 May
Box   1
Folder   1
“Theatre as a Weapon” Bulletin of Council of American-Soviet Friendships, 1944
Box   1
Folder   1
“Kerr Going Up” Washington Evening Star, 1944
Box   1
Folder   1
Poem: “Question for the Day” Washington Evening Star, 1944 September
Box   1
Folder   2
“A Theatre Grows in Brookland” Players Magazine, 1945 May
Box   1
Folder   3
“Return to Action” Theatre Arts, 1947
Box   1
Folder   4
“Another Part of the Elephant” National Theatre Conference Bulletin, 1949 December
Box   1
Folder   5
“Producing Plays on Broadway” Amerika Illustrated, 1953-1954
Box   1
Folder   6
“Off-Broadway is On” Theatre Annual, 1955-1956
Box   1
Folder   7
“Four in the Round” Theatre Arts, 1956
Box   1
Folder   8
“The New School Tie” or “Not Waiting for Godot” New York Times, 1956
Box   1
Folder   9
“How's Your Old Proscenium Arch?” New York Times, 1957
“A Tale of Two Cities” published in Ten Talents in the American Theatre, ed. by David Stevens
Box   1
Folder   10
Correspondence, 1955 August-1960 July
Box   1
Folder   11
Manuscript drafts
Box   1
Folder   12
“What's Wrong With Alex?” New York Herald Tribune, 1960
New Leader
Box   1
Folder   13
Correspondence, 1961 May-1963 February
Box   1
Folder   14
Four articles
Box   1
Folder   15
Seven typewritten articles, five rough drafts
Box   2
Folder   1
Comments on The Impossible Theatre by H. Blau, 1964
Box   2
Folder   2
“The Bread and Wine of Bertolt Brecht” published in Bertolt Brecht Portraits, ed. by G. Goedhart, 1964
Box   2
Folder   3
Letter to Drama Editor of New York Times, 1965
Box   2
Folder   4
“Laughter Among the Ruins” Show, 1965
Introduction to Acting is Believing by C. McGaw
Box   2
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1965-1966
Note: Also original manuscript, galley proofs.
“On” from The Artist and His Audience
Box   2
Folder   6
Preliminary drafts and notes
Box   2
Folder   7
Typewritten manuscript (delivered at the University of Chicago Conference, 1966)
Box   2
Folder   8
Galley proofs
Box   2
Folder   9
Other manuscripts in , 1966 Conference proceedings included in the book
Box   2
Folder   10
Transcripts of taped Symposia with references to Schneider's paper
Box   2
Folder   11
“The Off-Broadway Experience,” interview for book by Howard Greenberger, 1967
“Let's Be Beastly to the British” New York Times, 1967
Box   2
Folder   12
Correspondence, 1967
Box   2
Folder   13
“Long Season's Journey Into Not Much” Theatre World Manual, London
Box   2
Folder   14
“What's He So Afraid Of?” Tulane Drama Review
Unpublished Writings
One-act plays
Box   3
Folder   1
Four in the Dark
Box   3
Folder   2
The Young Men
Plays
Box   3
Folder   3
They Will Live Again
Box   3
Folder   4
We Shall Not Sleep
Box   3
Folder   5
The World is Kind
Box   3
Folder   6
Home Sweet Home
Box   3
Folder   7
Six revue sketches, one radio script
Box   3
Folder   8
Three produced radio scripts
Box   3
Folder   9
Eight short stories
Box   3
Folder   10
Poetry by Schneider
Box   3
Folder   11
Two plays, three reviews, one song
Box   3
Folder   12
Song: “A Little Piece of String”
Box   3
Folder   13
Eleven articles
Box   3
Folder   14
Three articles, one editorial
Box   3
Folder   15
Thirteen articles
Box   4
Folder   1
Five articles regarding theater
Box   4
Folder   2
“The Magic Keynote” (sent out for jobs)
Box   4
Folder   3
Miscellaneous theater articles
Box   4
Folder   4
Two notebooks: “Thoughts in Passing” and “Words in Passing,” 1940
Box   4
Folder   5
Miscellaneous notes and writings
Box   4
Folder   6
Lectures, speeches, paper delivered at the Social Construction Conference of the National Association of Teachers of Speech, 1944 December
Box   4
Folder   7
Notes from speech: “The Arena Theatre Needs a Theatre,” 1950
448A/1-2
Lincoln Center Discussion, “A Rock Through the Window,” 1966
Scope and Content Note: Schneider discusses the American theater, his production of Edward Albee's play A Delicate Balance, theater audiences, and critics.
U.S. Mss 57AN
Box   4
Folder   8
Lecture tour, 1966-1967
Box   4
Folder   9
Lecture notes from International Theatre Institute Conference (ITI), Iceland, 1967 May
Box   4
Folder   10
Montreal Colloquium, 1967
Box   4
Folder   11
American Educational Theatre Association (AETA) , 1967 Convention
Box   4
Folder   12
“Tribute to Jacques Lipschitz,” notes and source materials, 1967
Box   4
Folder   13
Notes from lectures Schneider has delivered
Box   4
Folder   14-15
Programs, brochures, etc. from talks by Schneider
Subseries: Subseries 6: Wartime Materials
Scope and Content Note: The “Wartime Materials” subseries contains radio scripts and a variety of writing assignments done by Schneider for government agencies during World War II. All materials relating to an individual agency are arranged together. No attempt has been made to arrange materials in any alphabetical or chronological sequence.
Box   1
Folder   1
Department of the Interior script: “Greenbelt: Design for Living”
Office of Education
Box   1
Folder   2
Fourteen radio scripts
Box   1
Folder   3
“Help Yourself to Health”
Box   1
Folder   4
Miscellaneous writings
American Educational Theatre Association
Box   1
Folder   5
AETA News, 1941-1946
Box   1
Folder   6
Miscellaneous materials
Office of War Information
Box   1
Folder   7
Correspondence regarding Theatre Victory Council, etc., 1943 March-July
Box   1
Folder   8
Materials regarding theater projects
Box   1
Folder   9
Theater work
Box   1
Folder   10
Source lists and radio spots
Box   1
Folder   11
Script: “It's Up To You,” clippings, etc.
Box   2
Folder   1
Miscellaneous notes
Box   2
Folder   2
Post Office Department, Ghost-written speeches for James Farley
Box   2
Folder   3
Treasury Department
Box   2
Folder   4
Radio scripts for various government agencies
Box   2
Folder   5
Radio script: “This Small World”
Radio script: “This Was Our Town”
Box   2
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1941 August-1946 December
Note: Also three scripts.
Box   2
Folder   7
Eleven articles, one poem
Box   2
Folder   8
Miscellaneous script ideas, parts of manuscripts
Box   2
Folder   9
Notebook, miscellaneous notes
Box   2
Folder   10
Russian study notes
Box   2
Folder   11
Poetry collected during World War II
Box   2
Folder   12
Script: “Figure It Out,” manuals
Subseries: Subseries 7: Theater Organizations and Travel
Scope and Content Note: The materials in this subseries are divided into two sections. “Theater Organizations,” arranged alphabetically, contains correspondence and other related papers representing Schneider's major professional affiliations. (Other material concerning organizations is found in the next subseries, Previously Restricted Materials.) “Travel” is arranged chronologically according to trips made by Schneider and includes correspondence, travel arrangements, and notes on observations. (Materials relating to foreign plays are to be found in subseries two.)
Theater Organizations
Box   1
Folder   1
Actors Equity correspondence, 1943-1964
The Actors Studio Theatre
Box   1
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1948-1967
Box   1
Folder   3
Miscellany
Box   1
Folder   4
American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) correspondence, 1963-1967 miscellany
Box   1
Folder   5
American National Theatre and Academy-Board of Standards and Planning for the Living Theatre correspondence, 1960-1967
Arena Stage
Note: Also see Part 1, Subseries 9.
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   6
1951-1957
Box   1
Folder   7
1958-1967
Box   1
Folder   8
Miscellaneous materials
Box   1
Folder   9
Arts Council of America correspondence, 1966
Note: Also miscellany.
Box   1
Folder   10
Bennington College Committee on the Performing Arts
Box   2
Folder   1
Cain Park Theatre correspondence, 1947-1949
Note: Also contracts, miscellany.
Directors Guild of America Inc.
Box   2
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1960-1962
Box   2
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1963-1967
Note: Also by-laws, miscellany.
Box   2
Folder   4
The Ford Foundation correspondence, 1966
Note: See also Part 1, Subseries 9.
Box   2
Folder   5
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts (IASTA) correspondence, 1961-1966
International Educational Exchange Series (IEES) Ad Hoc Drama Panel and Advisory Committee on the Arts correspondence
Box   2
Folder   6
1959-1963
Box   2
Folder   7
1964
Box   2
Folder   8
1965-1966
Box   3
Folder   9
Institute of International Education (IIE) Fulbright Selection Committee correspondence, 1951 April-1963 June
Note: Also includes rating sheets.
Box   3
Folder   1
International Theatre Institute (ITI) correspondence, 1964-1967
Note: Also programs, miscellany.
Box   3
Folder   2
New Dramatists Committee Inc. correspondence, 1952-1967
Note: Also miscellany.
Box   3
Folder   3
New York State Council on the Arts correspondence, 1964-1967
Rockefeller Foundation, See Part 1, Subseries 9
Box   3
Folder   4
Screen Directors International Guild correspondence, 1959-1963
Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Inc. correspondence
Box   3
Folder   5
1955 February-1962 March
Box   3
Folder   6
1962 August-1964 April
Box   3
Folder   7
1964 May-December
Box   3
Folder   8
1965 January-1966 December
Box   3
Folder   9
1967
Note: Also miscellany.
Box   4
Folder   1
Studio Magazine (Schneider was co-editor): ideas regarding magazine
Theatre Communications Group, See Part 1, Subseries 9
Box   4
Folder   2
Theatre Incorporated correspondence, 1947 May-1948 November
Note: Also includes notes.
Box   4
Folder   3
Tulane Drama Review correspondence, 1959-1967
Box   4
Folder   4
Washington University Performing Arts Center correspondence, 1965-1966
Travel
Box   5
Folder   1
Trip to London and Europe: notes regarding travel, plays seen, miscellany, 1949
Box   5
Folder   2
European Trip: notes regarding travel, 1952
Box   5
Folder   3
Indiana University Inter-University Conference on Graduate Study in the Soviet Union: conference materials, correspondence, 1959
Box   5
Folder   4
European Travel: notes, materials regarding ITI Conference in Warsaw and Edinburgh Conference in London, 1963 (Paris, Warsaw, Berlin, London): correspondence, 1963 January-August
Box   5
Folder   5
International Theatre Institute-11th Congress, Tel Aviv, 1965: materials regarding conference, correspondence, 1965 April-November
Box   5
Folder   6
Trip to West, U.S.A. for Rockefeller Foundation: notes regarding travel, 1967
Subseries: Subseries 8: Biographical Materials
Scope and Content Note: “Biographical Materials” contains telephone messages dating from 1964-1968, as well as diaries from 1936-1964, arranged chronologically. The remaining materials include Schneider's financial records, employment contracts, résumés, Guggenheim applications, and other memorabilia.
Telephone messages
Box   1
Folder   1
1964 August-December
Box   1
Folder   2
1965 January-June
Box   1
Folder   3
1965 August-December
Box   1
Folder   4
1966
Box   1
Folder   5
1967
Box   1
Folder   6
1968
Diaries
Box   2
Folder   1
1936
Note: Covers time at Johns Hopkins, Maryland, University of Wisconsin.
Box   2
Folder   2
1941
Box   2
Folder   3
1952
Box   2
Folder   4
1954
Box   2
Folder   5
1956
Box   3
Folder   1
1957
Box   3
Folder   2
1958
Box   3
Folder   3
1959
Box   3
Folder   4
1960
Box   3
Folder   5
1962
Box   3
Folder   6
1964
Box   4
Folder   1
Financial records: 1943, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1959
Box   4
Folder   2
Expense books: 1943-1953, 1957
Box   4
Folder   3
Contracts from various jobs held by Schneider
Box   4
Folder   4
Miscellaneous résumé materials
Box   4
Folder   5
Notes regarding job applications
Box   4
Folder   6
Reading diary, book lists, notes, quotes
Box   4
Folder   7
Books in Schneider's library, 1935-1965
Guggenheim application for study of Russian and Czech Theater
Box   4
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1942 November-1947 September
Box   4
Folder   9
Application forms, Russian proprosals
Box   5
Folder   1
Materials regarding Czech Theater, miscellaneous application materials
Box   5
Folder   2
Research notes for Russian and Czech Theater
Box   5
Folder   3
Samuel French Inc.: Schneider as playwriting contest judge
Box   5
Folder   4
Three Schneider passports
Box   5
Folder   5
Photographs of Schneider
Box   5
Folder   6
Personal memorabilia
Box   5
Folder   7
Paris car accident, bills, correspondence, 1955-1956
Box   5
Folder   8
Douglas Giebel thesis: Alan Schneider: A Director for the Theatre of Our Time
Subseries: Subseries 9: Previously Restricted Materials
Scope and Content Note: This subseries consists of materials which until December 1977, were available to researchers only with Schneider's permission. Four organizations arranged alphabetically appear in this series. Arena Stage papers consist largely of correspondence relating to productions Schneider directed there. The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and the Theatre Communications Group includes correspondence as well as the original drafts of recommendations made by Schneider while serving as consultant to these organizations.
Arena Stage correspondence
Box   1
Folder   1
1952-1958
Box   1
Folder   2
1959-1966, undated
Ford Foundation
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   3
1958-1959
Box   1
Folder   4
1960-1967
Box   1
Folder   5-6
Schneider's work as consultant, 1958-1959
Box   1
Folder   7
Manuscript: Submission to Federal Communications Commission, 1967
Box   1
Folder   8
Miscellany
Rockefeller Foundation
Box   2
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1951-1967
Box   2
Folder   2
Schneider's manuscript for book on performing arts
Box   2
Folder   3
Summary of hearings on Economic Conditions in the Performing Arts, 1963
Box   2
Folder   4
Organizational materials
Box   2
Folder   5
Miscellaneous materials
Box   2
Folder   6
Annual report, 1964
Box   2
Folder   7
Staff directories, 1964-1965
Original consultant drafts by Schneider
Box   2
Folder   8
1964
Box   2
Folder   9
1964-1965
Box   3
Folder   1
1965
Box   3
Folder   2-3
1966
Box   3
Folder   4
1967
Theatre Communications Group
Correspondence
Box   3
Folder   5
1959-1961
Box   3
Folder   6
1962-1963
Box   3
Folder   7
1964-1965
Box   4
Folder   1
1966
Box   4
Folder   2
1967
Box   4
Folder   3
Miscellaneous materials