The Interplayers / A.J. Esta scrapbook
Scope and Contents
Collection includes a scrapbook created by A.J. Esta while he was the managing director for the Interplayers theatre company in San Francisco. Many entries include documentation about Ron Anderson and the productions by the Playhouse and The Interplayers group.
Loose ephemera kept in the scrapbook, and material which has come unaffixed has been filed separately.
Dates
- Creation: 1960 - 1970
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Biographical
A.J. Esta was born in Butte, Montana in 1930 and earned his master’s degree from the University of Montana before moving to the East Coast to pursue an acting career. He later moved in the 1950s to San Francisco where he initially worked as an actor with Jules Irving and Herbert Blau’s Actor’s Workshop. Esta worked as a director for several local companies including the Playhouse, the Sons of Art, Theatre Artists of Marin, the Ross Valley Players, and the East Bay Children’s Theater. Esta died at the age of 73 in Wheeler, Oregon.
The Interplayers was a San Francisco theatre founded in 1946 by a group of conscientious objectors who had met while working in the Civilian Public Service during WWII.
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Scrapbook and ephemera from the San Francisco theatre company The Interplayers
Topical
- Title
- Guide to The Interplayers / A.J. Esta scrapbook
- Author
- Zachariah Selley
- Date
- 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives Repository