Laura Keene
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Laura Keene was a British stage actress and theatre manager. In her twenty-year career, she became known as the first powerful female manager in New York. Keene is also notable as the lead actress in
Laura Keene Brady Handy
Keene as Florence Trenchard from Our American Cousin
The blood-stained sleeve cuff belonging to Keene on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
Burial site at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
Our American Cousin
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Our American Cousin is a three-act comedy play by the English playwright Tom Taylor. It is a farce about an awkward, boorish American man named Asa Trenchard who is introduced to his aristocratic Engl
Laura Keene
…In her twenty-year career, she became known as the first powerful female manager in New York. Keene is also notable as the lead actress in the play Our American Cousin, which was attended by President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington on the evening of his assassination. Keene was born Mary Frances Moss…
Joseph Jefferson as Asa Trenchard, the titular American cousin
Edward Sothern as Lord Dundreary, sporting his iconic "Dundrearies"-style sideburns
Playwright Tom Taylor