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Selden joined the University of North Carolina in 1927 as technical director of the Carolina Playmakers and stayed 31 years, serving as chairman of the Department of Dramatic Art and director of the Playmakers from 1944 to 1959. After posts at UCLA and Southern Illinois he returned to Chapel Hill as a visiting professor from 1967 to 1971.
Source: UNC Libraries, Southern Historical Collection: Samuel Selden Papers, 1918-1977
1899–1979 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 2 works by Samuel Selden.
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Papers of Samuel Selden (1899-1979) spanning 1918 to 1977, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4378. The papers concern the Carolina Playmakers and the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, along with college theater in North Carolina, American dramatists and open-air theater in the United States.
Samuel Selden, who taught dramatic art at Chapel Hill and directed the Carolina Playmakers, wrote this short book on drama and the theater. The University of North Carolina Press published its 113 pages in 1957.
Brief biography of Frederick Henry Koch (1877-1944), founder of the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina, by Samuel Selden and Mary Tom Sphangos, with notes by Jonathan Daniels and others. It reprints Koch's own essay 'Folk playmaking' on pages 59 to 68. Published by the University of North Carolina Library in 1954, viii and 92 pages with illustrations and a portrait.
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Reviewed in Educational Theatre Journal (1956).
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Picture: Samuel Selden, Yackety Yack, 1958. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1958 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via the Internet Archive
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