INHERITORS

Inheritors

November 16, 2026

Venue LuEsther Hall

By Susan Glaspell
Co-directed by Jessie Austrian and Ben Steinfeld

In 1879, an idealistic farmer fulfills his dream of founding a university on his family’s land. Forty years later, that university dreams of expansion, but faces unlikely opposition in the farmer’s granddaughter, whose protests defending immigrant students threaten crucial funding. Written in 1921, this startlingly prescient play by Susan Glaspell (THE VERGE) is an epic saga about freedom of speech, radicalism, and belonging on America’s college campuses. Casting to be announced.

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Susan Glaspell

Playwright

Susan Glaspell

Playwright

SUSAN KEATING GLASPELL (1876-1947) was an American actress, playwright, novelist, and journalist who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her 1930 play Alison’s House. She directed the Midwest bureau for the Federal Theatre Project. With her husband George Cram Cook, she founded the Provincetown Players, which launched the career of Eugene O’Neill. Her one-act play Trifles (1916) is frequently cited as one of the greatest works of American theater. In total she published 50 short stories, nine novels, 15 plays, and a biography.

Jessie Austrian

Co-Director

Ben Steinfeld

Co-Director

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