Virgil Geddes

AKA: Virgil Charles Geddes

Born 1897-05-14 Dixon County, NE (USA)

Died 1989-05-24
Chelsea, ME (USA)

The author was a playwright turned country postmaster. His play "The Earth Between" was produced in Provincetown, MA in 1929 with Bette Davis in the cast. Geddes wrote about the history and politics of the theater for the Brookfield Players in the early 1930s and started the Brookfield, CT Playhouse. He went on to co-direct the Federal Theater Project's experimental section, which produced his play ''Native Ground'' in New York City in 1937. Geddes wrote a memoir of his life as a country postmaster, published in 1952.

Places Lived

Dixon County, NE
Cherokee, IA
Cambridge, MA
Boston, MA
New York, NY
Swan's Island, ME
Brookfield, CT

Author Of

Biography
Play/Screenplay
Poetry

Keywords

Stage Plays; Playwright; Poetry; Memoirs; Postmaster

Occupation

Playwright
Director
Postmaster

Places Worked

Brookfield Playhouse, Brookfield, CT
United States Postal Service, Brookfield, CT

Honors

Outstanding Achievement Award in Literature, The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters

Bibliography

40 Poems. 1926.
The Frog. 1926.
The Earth Between. 1928
Mud on the Hoofs.. 1929.
Behind the Night. 1930.
The Stable and the Grove. 1930.
From the Life of George Emery Blum.
Native Ground. 1932.
Country Postmaster. 1952.

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