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Orrie Lashin
A playwright remembered for co-writing the Depression-era drama Class of '29, a Federal Theatre Project production about a generation hit hard by economic collapse. Very little biographical detail is widely documented, which gives the surviving work an added sense of mystery.
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Class of '29
by Orrie Lashin, Milo Hastings
About the author
Orrie Lashin is chiefly known as the co-author, with Milo Hastings, of Class of '29. The play was staged during the 1930s as part of the Federal Theatre Project, and Library of Congress records preserve playbills and posters connected with that production.
Reliable biographical information about Lashin is scarce in the sources readily available online. Even so, the surviving theater records suggest a writer engaged with the social tensions of the Depression era, helping bring contemporary struggles to the stage for a broad public audience.
For listeners and readers interested in forgotten voices from American theater, Lashin stands out less for a well-documented life story than for the trace left behind in a specific historical moment. That makes the work especially interesting: it offers a glimpse of the hopes, anxieties, and everyday pressures facing Americans in the years after 1929.