Donn B. Murphy Papers
Scope and Contents note
The Donn B. Murphy Papers contain correspondence, scripts, articles, photographs, and other material relating to the career of Donn B. Murphy as teacher and director of dramatic theater at Georgetown University, primarily, with some material relating to work as director of the National Theater, Washington, D.C.
Dates
- Creation: 1956 - 2004
Conditions Governing Access note
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Biographical note
Donn B. Murphy began his career at Georgetown University in 1954 as an instructor in speech. A year later he was invited to become faculty director of the college theater troupe, Mask and Bauble, putatively the second oldest continuously active college theater group in the country, with former members such as John Barrymore. Murphy retired from the university in 1999. He was also president of the National Theater in Washington, D.C., from 1982. More information on Murphy is available in Folder 1:14.
Extent
3.5 Linear Feet (6 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Topical
- Title
- Donn B. Murphy Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Georgetown University Library Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, D.C.
- Date
- 07/01/2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
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