Alvina Krause was an American drama teacher at Northwestern University, theatrical entrepreneur, "maker of stars", and director.
13 Facts About Alvina Krause
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Alvina Krause returned to Northwestern, earning a bachelor's degree in 1928.
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Alvina Krause taught drama and English at a high school in Seaside, Oregon, where some of her family lived.
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Alvina Krause coached the girls' basketball team to a state championship.
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Alvina Krause taught drama for a year at Hamline University in St Paul.
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Alvina Krause earned a master's degree there in 1933; her master's thesis purported to describe the creative process scientifically.
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Alvina Krause was appointed assistant professor in 1941, and developed a one-year course in acting.
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Alvina Krause expanded this to a three-year acting program, developing an approach still used at Northwestern and emulated elsewhere.
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Alvina Krause was the artistic director and driving force for summer theater at Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, for twenty years from 1945 producing 178 plays by Chekhov, Ibsen, Moliere, Rostand, Shakespeare, and Shaw.
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Alvina Krause founded a repertory company at Chicago's Harper Theatre in 1966.
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Alvina Krause enjoyed great popularity even in retirement, and students engaged her for private instruction.
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Alvina Krause conducted master classes as late as 1976 and 1977.
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Alvina Krause had moved to Bloomsburg in 1971, and some of her former master class students founded the Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble in 1978.