Glenn A. Hughes

(1894-1964) born at Cozad. Educator, playwright, poet, as drama and English professor at the University of Washington for more than three decades, he was known as a drama innovator who is credited with establishing the arena theatre (theatre-in-the-round) during modern times in 1932; also authored more than 250 publications, including 60 original plays, translations of 30 from French and Japanese, five volumes of poetry, and three books on history of the theatre. Consult Newsweek, May 1, 1950, p. 71 and Saturday Evening Post, March 1, 1952, pp. 36-37, 112, 114, 117 and University of Washington Daily obituary, March 31, 1964, p. 1 and Marilyn Bennett, "The Glenn Hughes Years 1927-1961," Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington, 1982, and Encyclopedia Americana, Vol 2 (2001) 249.

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