14 Facts About Neith Boyce

Neith Boyce was an American script writer and theatre manager.

Neith Boyce later co-founded the Provincetown Players alongside Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, her own husband Hutchins Hapgood, and others.

Neith Boyce worked with the Provincetown Players in several capacities that included directing, performing, hosting productions in her home, and having all four of her plays produced.

Neith Boyce was born in Franklin, Indiana, the second of five children to Henry Harrison Boyce and Mary Boyce.

Henry Harrison Neith Boyce had a wife and child before his relationship with Mary Neith Boyce.

Neith Boyce was self-educated in her family homes in California She did this by reading the books in her parents' library.

Neith Boyce began publishing pieces as a teenager in the 1880s in the Los Angeles Times, which her father co-founded.

The family later moved to Boston in 1891, where Mary Neith Boyce became an associate editor for The Cycle, which was a publication oriented towards women's rights issues.

Neith Boyce worked for Lincoln Steffens, then editor of The Commercial Advertiser.

Neith Boyce became involved with the local community of female playwrights in Provincetown and was one of the founding members of the Provincetown Players.

Neith Boyce's Constancy inaugurated the first season of the theatre that would become the Provincetown Players.

Neith Boyce wrote the woman's lines, and Hutchins Hapgood wrote the man's.

Neith Boyce met her husband, Hutchins Hapgood, while working for The Commercial Advertiser.

However, behind closed doors, Neith Boyce was solely responsible for the children, while Hapgood enjoyed numerous affairs.