Background
Lee, Maryat was born on May 26, 1923 in Covington, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of DeWitt Collins and Grace Barbee (Dyer) Lee.
Lee, Maryat was born on May 26, 1923 in Covington, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of DeWitt Collins and Grace Barbee (Dyer) Lee.
Student, Northwestern University, 1940—1941. Bachelor, Wellesley College, 1945. Student, Middlebury College, 1944.
Postgraduate, Union Theological Seminary, 1949—1950. Postgraduate, Columbia University, 1949—1951. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1955.
Engaged film editing, 1946—1948. Instructor Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, 1948—1949. Transcriber Oral History project Columbia University, 1950—1951.
Assistant to Margaret Mead, 1952—1953. Writer, director DOPE!, 1951. Producer, founder, playwright Soul and Latin Theater, 1968—1970.
Member faculty New School Social Research, 1965—1970. Founder, playwright, producer EcoTheater, 1975—1989. Adjunct faculty West Virginia College Graduate Studies, since 1978.
Presenter Writing Project, 1981. Lecturer Shepherd College, 1988, Greenbrier Community College, 1988. Fellow Virginia Center Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, 1979, 86.
Co-director drama and writing workshops Federal Reformatory Women, 1972—1975. Playwright-director training workshop, Hindman, Kentucky, Concord College, West Virginia, Macomb, Illinois. Director Series EcoTheater.
Playwright, director training workshops., West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois. Developed first indigenous theater network. Advisory panel Expansion Arts program National Endowment Arts, 1973—1975.
Member coordinating committee Humanities Center, West Virginia. Developed 1st modern street theater, 1951, 1st indigenous rural theater network, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Virginia.
Member coordinating committee Humanities Center West Virginia.
Married David Phillips Foulkes-Taylor, July 4, 1957 (deceased September 1966).