In 1947, the brilliant designer Robert Edmond Jones introduced me to John Huntington, who was the producer of the [now closed] Cambridge Summer Theatre in Massachusetts. It was my first job. I cleaned the men's room and did props and played very small parts. The final play of the season was Burlesque, starring Bert Lahr and Eileen Heckart. I played a stripper. Knowing I wanted to join Equity, Lahr took me with him to several other theatres, and by September, I had worked enough weeks to apply as a “Junior Member.” That fall I presented my first Equity card to Robert Whitehead, the producer of Medea and began my career in the New York theatre."
