ocr: The WIA established the Federal Theater Project (FTP) for actors on welfare in. August 1935. The FIP was directed by Hallie Flanagan, who ame from the avant-garde Vassar College Experimental Theater. She brought with hers a beliefin theatera political and cultural quission. Using federal suppori, she found nuyriad ways to achieve it. When the project started, over halfthe actors in New York were unemployed. Within two years, 13,000 people in 31 states were working to provide free theater to the underprivileged in setternent bouses, recreation ceuters, and hospitals. Ati its. height, the FTP pl ...
