Edith O'Hara
(Founder & Artistic Director)

Edith O'Hara first became interested in theatre while attending a one-room school in Idaho when the fifth grade class presented a play. She went on to major in theatre in college and began her active theatrical career in Warren, PA, where she initiated a children's theatre in 1960 and a summer theatre in 1965. In her summer theatre she helped develop the musical Touch which she produced in New York in 1970. It ran Off-Broadway for a year. Ampex recorded the album which received a Grammy Award nomination. She founded the Thirteenth Street Repertory Company in 1972 where she has supervised hundreds of different productions. In 1975 and 1976 she produced NY and LA companies of the musical Boy Meets Boy, originally produced by TSRC. Each enjoyed a year's run.

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