Provincetown Players

Provincetown Players

Lewis Wharf, first home of the Provincetown Players in 1915
Formation	1915 (1915)
Dissolved	1922 (1922)
Type	Theatre group
Purpose	amateur productions of new, experimental theatre
Location	Provincetown, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod New York City

The Provincetown Players was a collective of artists, people and writers, intellectuals, and amateur theater enthusiasts. Under the leadership of the husband and wife team of George Cram “Jig” Cook and Susan Glaspell from Iowa, the Players produced two seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts (1915 and 1916) and six seasons in New York City, between 1916 and 1922. The company's founding has been called "the most important innovative moment in American theatre."^[1] Its productions helped launch the careers of Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell, and ushered American theatre into the Modern era.