Kenneth Sawyer Goodman

Kenneth Sawyer Goodman (September 19, 1883 – November 29, 1918) was an American playwright. Having an interest in the arts typical of Chicago's high society, he went into playwriting and was part of the city's Little Theatre Movement. He wrote numerous plays in separate partnerships with Thomas Wood Stevens and Ben Hecht. Following his death, the Goodman Theatre was formed with Goodman's original plans for a combined professional theater and drama school. Biography Early life Goodman, an only child, He was educated at local schools before moving westward to attend The Hill School and Princeton University, The duo also wrote several unpublished plays about "immigrant Jewish parent-child relationships gone awry". His widow later remarried to James M. Hopkins, chair of the Camel Company board of directors.

In 1925, the Goodman Theatre was formed with Goodman's original plans for a combined professional theater and drama school (where the theater's actors would also be drama teachers) in mind.