Personal/Biographical  Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ostroff, Elaine
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content: Elaine Ostroff Universal Design Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967 - 2008
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1356, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of biographical materials about Elaine Ostroff, namely resumes, awards, book proposals, and interview transcripts.  

The Looking Glass Theatre (LGT) materials document a children's theatre company founded in 1962 in Providence, Rhode Island by Elaine Ostroff.  LGT was created to be a participatory touring company of adults that presented original plays designed to engage young audiences. The theatre later expanded to include the Summer Street Theatre, Let's Pretend, a creative dramatics series that was performed in libraries throughout Rhode Island, The Workshop School, The Saturday Workshop Company, and the In-School Workshops and Consultant Service.  The first performance was The Story of Ferdinand performed in the round, close to the audience at Brown University. Some past productions include The Reluctant Dragon, The Sky is Falling, Canterbury Tales, and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.  LGT incorporated in Rhode Island as a non-profit organization dedicated to educational theatre, and it was the first children's theatre company to receive Title III funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act passed by Congress in 1965. The materials consist of notes, proposals, correspondence, brochures and fliers, play programs, budget data, sketches for costumes, scripts, evaluations, photographs, and newspaper clippings.