Steele MacKaye

James Morrison Steele MacKaye ( born June 6, 1842, in Buffalo, † February 25, 1894 ) was an American actor, theater producer and inventor. He is considered one of the most famous theater people of his generation.

Biography

Steele MacKaye came to Buffalo on the world. His father, a lawyer and Colonel James M. MacKaye, was a staunch opponent of slavery, his mother died very early. He had three sisters: Sarah MacKaye Alling (1809-1904), Emily MacKaye of Hesse (? 1838 - ), Sarah MacKaye Warner ( 1840-1876 ), and two half-brothers: William Henry MacKaye ( 1834-1888 ) and Henry Goodwin MacKaye ( 1856-1913 ).

As a young man Steele attended the Roe 's Military Academy in Cornwall -on-Hudson in New York State and the William Leverett Boarding School in Newport. He studied painting with William Morris Hunt, and then at the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris. Because of the civil war he returned home and served in the New York Seventh Regiment and was Major. The monument of the regiment in New York, which John Quincy Adams Ward is created, modeled after him.

1869 MacKaye traveled again to Paris and became drama students at François Delsarte. In 1873 he was the first American to Hamlet in London showed.

MacKaye wrote more than 30 plays. As a dramatist he was referring realism and naturalism in his pieces. His first play was Hazel Kirke 1880. Around 1885 he was involved in the creation of the first drama school in the United States, the predecessor of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts ( AADA ). Going to his ingenuity back over 100 patents, including fire-proof curtains, folding seats and a fog machine.

The New York Theatre St. James, Madison Square and the Lyceum Theatre are ups MacKayes. MacKayes first wife was Jeannie Spring ( daughter of Marcus Spring). The marriage quickly went to pieces. His second marriage to Mary K. Medbery in 1865 closed. The couple had six children, including James MacKaye, Percy MacKaye Benton MacKaye and. Percy, who was a well-known playwright and poet, published 1927, the Epoch Biography: The Life of Steele MacKaye.

Works

He wrote the pieces Monaldi and Marriage. Other works include:

  • The Twins (1876 )
  • Through the Dark (1878 ), later renamed Mad Money
  • Hazel Kirke (1880 )
  • Anarchy (1887 ), first Paul Kauvar; or Anarchy, Anarchy later and then again Paul Kauvar. titled
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