... height, the Federal Theatre Project employed around twelve thousand people in all kinds of projects scattered over thirty-one states. The project received its funding from the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, in which it gave the FTP around seven million dollars to spend on wages and other materials. "With this commitment of funding, representatives of the Federal Theatre director ... were headed by Rose McClendon, a well known black actress, and John Houseman, a theatre producer who got Orson Welles to direct and act with the unit. The most important theatre production that ...

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