Ida Lublenski Ehrlich

Ida Lublenski Ehrlich ( – ) was a Russian Empire-born American playwright and teacher.

Early life Ida Lublenski was born on in Odesa, then part of the Russian Empire. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was two years old and lived on the Lower East Side of New York City.

Career The first of her plays to be staged was Helena's Boys, debuting at Henry Miller's Theatre on Broadway in April 1924. The play, starring Minnie Maddern Fiske in the title role and based on a story by Mary Brecht Pulver, was about a woman who curbed the radicalism of her two sons by pretending to radical behavior herself, including drunkenness and free love. It was generally poorly reviewed. Her play Love Kills, debuting at the Forrest Theatre in May 1934, starred Vivian Giesen as a woman named Pearl who takes a series of lovers before jumping out of a window. In 1940, she founded Everyman's Theatre to produce her plays off-Broadway using her own funds. Her thirteen plays include Dr. Johnson, The Magic Carpet, and Alice in Fableland. She published a reading book called Instant Vocabulary in 1969.