Rosamund Gilder

Gilder, Rosamund (1891?–1986), critic. The daughter of writer and editor Richard Watson Gilder, she was born in Marion, Massachusetts, and was for many years the drama critic and editor of Theatre Arts Monthly. Besides serving as secretary of the National Theatre Conference, director of the Playwrights' Bureau of the Federal Theatre Project, and a secretary of the American National Theatre and Academy, she wrote numerous books on the theatre, including: Enter the Actress (1931), A Theatre Library (1932), Theatre Collections in Libraries and Museums (1936) with George Freedley, and John Gielgud's Hamlet (1937).