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Zipporah Ritchie Woodward (July 23, 1885 - July 26, 1976). [1] was a theatre director, writer and supporter of the arts community in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from the 1920s to the 1970s. [2] She was described as the "Grand Dame" of Vancouver's establishment by Vancouver Life Magazine. [3]
Woodward, whose maiden name was Ritchie, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She attended Wells College in Aurora, New York, USA, in the early 1900's. [4] After marriage, she became known as "Mrs. E.A. Woodward" or "Mrs. Ernest Woodward". [4]
Woodward directed numerous plays for the Vancouver Little Theatre on Vancouver's Commercial Drive in the 1920s and 1930s. [5] [6] Her direction of "The Second Man" at the Vancouver Little Theatre in 1931 was described in the Vancouver Sun as "sure and deft". [7]
In 1945 she directed the University of British Columbia Alumni Players Club production "Claudia" [8] at the UBC Auditorium.
She was president of the BC Drama Association (now known as Theatre BC) from 1948 to 1950 [9] and appeared as a Panelist on Canadian Playwriting at the Frederic Wood Theatre at UBC in March 1956. [10]
Woodward was known as a prolific letter writer, who would often share special quotations. [11] Her husband Ernest Austin Woodward ran a successful grain business on the Vancouver Waterfront, known as Columbia Grain Elevator. [12] In the 1920s, the family moved to Vancouver, residing on the city's affluent Point Grey Road in a home called "Seagate Manor". [13] Woodward was survived by her three children: Geoffrey Woodward, Shirley Woodward Grauer Owen, [1] and Peter Woodward [1] . [14] [ failed verification ] Upon her death, Vancouver columnist Mamie Moloney mourned her friend's loss to the city, describing her as "one of the last great ladies". [15]
Woodward's artist [16] daughter Shirley Woodward married Vancouver intellectual and businessman Dal Grauer, who became president of the BC Electric Company. Dal Grauer died in 1961. [17] Shirley Woodward Grauer subsequently married Walter S. Owen, [18] a lawyer who was appointed BC's Lieutenant Governor in 1973. [19]
Her granddaughter is artist Sherry Grauer.
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