Hazel MacKaye was an American theater professional and advocate of women's suffrage.
16 Facts About Hazel MacKaye
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Hazel MacKaye is best known for helping present a series of pageants in support of women's suffrage.
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Hazel MacKaye's father Steele MacKaye was a famous actor, playwright, and producer; Hazel was named after his hit play Hazel Kirke.
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Hazel's mother Mary Medbery MacKaye wrote a popular adaption of Pride and Prejudice for the stage in 1906.
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Hazel MacKaye failed to graduate but was made an honorary member of the 1910 class.
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Hazel MacKaye was a charter member of the American Pageant Association in 1913 and wrote a "Who's Who" of the members.
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Hazel MacKaye acted, touring with the Castle Square theater company of Winthrop Ames and appearing in her brother's Sappho and Phaon and Jeanne D'Arc and Mater.
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Hazel MacKaye worked as an instructor at the Children's Educational Theatre in New York City.
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Hazel MacKaye was active in the woman suffrage movement, being present at the first meeting of Alice Paul's Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, forerunner of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party.
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The organizers of the Woman Suffrage Procession, planned for Washington, DC, on March 3,1913, just before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, asked Hazel MacKaye to create a pageant for the event.
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In 1916, Hazel MacKaye staged a "Jubilee Pageant" for the National Young Women's Christian Association.
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Hazel MacKaye produced another pageant in 1923 celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, in the Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Hazel MacKaye wrote "The Enchanted Urn", a fantasy pantomime, in 1924.
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From 1923 to 1926, Hazel MacKaye taught drama at Brookwood Labor College in Katonah, New York.
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Hazel MacKaye had episodes of severe depression for much of the rest of her life.
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Hazel MacKaye died in 1944, and was buried in the Center Cemetery in Shirley; her brother Benton was buried nearby decades later.