Charlotte Baldwin (1778–1856) was an American stage actress and theatre manager.
Baldwin was a popular actor as old women in comedies, notably at the
Park Theatre, where she was engaged in 1816.
Charlotte Baldwin was one of the earliest female theatre managers in the United States. She was the founder and manager of the City Theatre, Warren Street, Broadway in 1822. She was not the first female theatre manager in the United states, but she was the first woman in the USA who founded her own theatre rather than inheriting one.
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Charlotte Wrighten Placide
Charlotte Wrighten Placide (c. 1776–1823), was an American actress and opera singer.Robin O. Warren, Women on Southern Stages, 1800-1865: Performance, Gender and Identity' She had a successful career from 1796, was the female star of the theatre ...
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Amelia Holman Gilfert
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1778 births
1856 deaths
19th-century American actresses
American stage actresses
19th-century American theatre managers
American women theatre managers and producers
19th-century American businesswomen