HOME WHAT'S NEW BIOGRAPHY PHOTO GALLERIES SCREEN CREDITS STAGE CREDITS ON THE RECORD MEMORABILIA SIX YEAR GIG ASHMONT A WORTHWHILE VENTURE LIZ'S DAD LIZ'S BROTHER BEWITCHED STORE WANTED ITEMS LINKS GUESTBOOK MAILING LIST CONTACT THE WEBMASTER SITE MAP			ROSEMARY CASEY (Author)
			Stangely enough, the subject in which playwright Rosemary Casey majored at college was not drama, writing or literature, but history. And the author of "The Velvet Glove," which Guthrie McClintic ushered to Broadway with success and distinction, says it is much more fun to create characters than to take them from history. Born in Pittsburgh, Miss Casey was educated at the Ursuline Academy there, at St. Elizabeth College as well as Barnard, from which she received her B.A., and at Columbia University where she earned her M.A. When she came to New York to enter Barnard, she became an avid theatre-goer and then started writing plays, winning the $5000 Christophers Award for "The Velvet Glove," her first and only previous Broadway venture. Miss Casey was one of the leading workers with the "Fight for Freedom" organization during World War II. When Pearl Harbor plunged the U.S.A. into the conflict she joined the Pittsburgh Red Cross and worked with them until August, 1946. In addition to serving as chairman of the Nurses Aid Corps of Pittsburgh she also was one of the most active members of their Speakers Bureau.