Neith Boyce Hapgood was among a group of theater enthusiasts summering in the Cape Cod village of Provincetown, Massachusetts, who came together to found the Provincetown Players. Along with her husband, journalist and writer Hutchins Hapgood, her friend and fellow playwright Susan Glaspell, and others, Hapgood helped to found a company that was to become one of the leading forces in the noncommercial theater movement of the 1910s and 1920s. When the Provincetown Players began performing their plays in Greenwich Village, they announced their determination “to establish a stage where playwrights of sincere, poetic, literary and dramatic purpose could see their plays in action, and superintend their production without submitting to the commercial manager’s interpretation of public taste.”1