Title: Ellen Terry
Content: 1909 by Cicely Hamilton and directed by Terry's daughter Edith Craig. In 1910 she toured in the provinces and then in the US with much success, acting, giving recitations and lecturing on the Shakespeare heroines. Returning to England, she played roles such as Nell Gwynne in "The First Actress" (1911) by Christopher St. John (a pseudonym for Christabel Marshall), one of the first productions of the Pioneer Players theatre society, founded in 1911 by Craig and for which Ellen Terry served as President. Also in 1911, she recorded scenes from five Shakespeare roles for the Victor Talking Machine Company, which

Title: Henrietta Vinton Davis
Content: "Romeo and Juliet", "As You Like It"; "Mary Queen of Scots"; "Cleopatra's Dying Speech"; "The Battle" by Friedrich Schiller; and "How Tom Sawyer Got His Fence Whitewashed" by Mark Twain. She is considered the first African American after Ira Aldridge to have successfully performed Shakespeare. On January 17, 1884, she appeared before a crowded house in Melodeon Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio. From 1884 to 1886, she appeared in various Shakespearean and classical tragedy roles with John A. Arneaux's troupe in New York City. In 1893 Davis started her own company in Chicago, traveled to the Caribbean, and collaborated on writing "Our

Title: Sybil Thorndike
Content: first professional contract: a tour of the United States with the actor-manager Ben Greet's company. She made her first stage appearance in Greet's 1904 production of Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor". She went on to tour the U.S. in Shakespearean repertory for four years, playing some 112 roles. In 1908, she was spotted by the playwright George Bernard Shaw when she understudied the leading role of "Candida" in a tour directed by Shaw himself. There she also met her future husband, Lewis Casson. They were married in December 1908, and had four children: John (1909–1999), Christopher (1912–1996), Mary (1914–2009),

Title: Jessie Bartlett Davis
Content: in 1880. She spent several years with a number of opera companies before joining the Boston Ideal Opera Company. She performed with this troupe until 1901, serving as its prima donna. Her most famous role was as Alan a-Dale in the 1890 opera "Robin Hood" by Reginald De Koven and Clement Scott. She introduced the song "Oh Promise Me" which became very popular. She starred in grand operas, including "Les Huguenots", "Martha", "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "Il trovatore" and "Dinorah". She performed with Adelina Patti in "Faust" while in the James Henry Mapleson Opera company, and toured with them

Title: Mary Anderson (actress, born 1859)
Content: In 1883, after starring in an American production of W. S. Gilbert's "Pygmalion and Galatea", she went on the London stage at the Lyceum Theatre, remaining in England for six years to perform to much acclaim including at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon. Her first season there, she starred in Gilbert's "Comedy and Tragedy" as well as in "Romeo and Juliet" in 1884. In 1887 in London she appeared in "The Winter's Tale" in the double role of Perdita and Hermione (the first actress to include this innovation). This production ran to 160 performances, and was taken back to

Question: Who was the first American actress to have a principal role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in Les Miserable's?
Answer: Patti LuPone