Background
Le GALLIENNE, Eva was born on January 11, 1899 in London, England. Daughter of Richard Le Gallienne and Julie Norregaard.
Le GALLIENNE, Eva was born on January 11, 1899 in London, England. Daughter of Richard Le Gallienne and Julie Norregaard.
College Sbvigne, Paris.
Debut in London in The Laughter of Fools 1915. In New York starred in Liliom 1922, The Swan 1923. F. Civic Repertory Theatre in New York 1926.
Played and produced there some 40 plays, including Ibsen’s Master Builder, Hedda Gabler, John Gabriel Borkman, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Sierra’s The Cradle Song.
Giraudoux’s Siegfried, Dumas’ Camille, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, Barrie’s Peter Pan, Moliere"s Would-be Gentleman, Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, et cetera Subsequently appeared on Broadway in Rostand’s L’Aiglon, Job’s Uncle Harry, Shakespeare's Henry VIII. Ibsen’s Rosmersholm and Ghosts, Williams’ The Com is Green.
Elizabeth I in Schiller’s Mary Stuart in New York and on tour 1958-1960 and in Maxwell Anderson’s Elizabeth The Queen on tour 1961-1962. On tour in Chekhov's The Seagull and Anouilh’s Ring Round the Moon 1962-1963 and in The Trojan Women and The Mad Woman of Chaillot 1965-1966.
With P.A. Repertory Company, New York, in Ionesco’s Exit the King, directed Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard 1967-1968, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Seattle Representative 1975.
Played in All"s Well That Ends Well at the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut 1970, Mistress Woodftn in The Dream Watcher at the White Bam Theatre 1975, Fanny Cavendish in The Royal Family at the Helen Hayes Theatre, New York 1976 and on the National Tour 1976-1977, To Grandmother’s House We Go (Biltmore Theatre, Broadway) 1981, White Queen in Alice in Wonderland, New York, 1983 (also director). Manager Director of American Representative Theatre 1946-1947.
Honorary Master of Arts (Tufts), Honorary Doctor of Letters (Russell Sage and Mountain.
Holyoke Colleges, Brown University), Doctorate.H.L. (Smith College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Goucher College, University of North Carolina, Bard College, and Fairfield University).