Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Florence Hunt

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976

Florence Vance Hunt (1925-2012) was an American playwright. She was a 1941 graduate of H. A. Hunt High School (named for her educator grandfather) and a 1945 graduate of Talladega College. After college Florence lived briefly in Chicago with her aunt Adele Hunt Gray, before moving to Greenwich Village where she earned a living as a model, free-lance writer, and New York State Government employee. Florence also attended New York University Graduate Theater Department, was a MacDowell Fellow, Virginia Center Fellow, was founder of American Women Playwrights Association and was listed in Eugene O'Neill Playwright Directory; Women in American Theater; Lincoln Center Library for The Performing Arts Collection; and University of Wyoming's Division of Rare Books.

Studios

Garland

Florence Hunt worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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