Baker, George Pierce

Baker, George Pierce( 1866–1935),
was instrumental in encouraging and inspiring many little theaters, stage designers, directors, and dramatists. His 47 Workshop at Harvard (1905–25) served as a laboratory for the staging of plays by such students as Edward Sheldon, Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry, John Dos Passos, S.N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, and Thomas Wolfe. After 1925 he continued his work at Yale. Baker is the prototype of Professor Hatcher in Wolfe's Of Time and the River.