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Jessie Bonstelle
Laura Justine "Jessie" Bonstelle (c. 1870 – 14 October 1932) was an American theater manager, director and actress. Encouraged by her mother, she sang and performed in the theater from a young age; she went on to become a famous leading lady and made several performances on Broadway. Later she became a director, managing many stock companies, directing Broadway productions and training many young performers who went on to be famous actors. In 1925 she founded her own theater in Detroit. Reorganized in 1928 as the Detroit Civic Theatre, it was one of America's first civic theaters, and her methods influenced community theater projects elsewhere. She has been described as "one of the pioneering women stage directors in the early twentieth century".〔
== Early life ==
Bonstelle was born to Helen and Joseph Bonesteel on her father's farm near the town of Greece, New York, the youngest of their eight children. Her exact date of birth is unknown, and she herself kept it a secret, but was in November of 1869–1871. Originally named Bonesteel, later in life she changed it to Bonstelle after, according to legend,〔 seeing it so misspelled on a theater marquee.
Bonstelle's mother, who herself had wanted to be an actress, home-schooled her in reading and writing, singing and dancing and even in reciting Shakespeare. Jessie's first public performance was singing temperance songs in church at two years old.〔 Helen gave her daughter a passion for acting by often taking her to theaters in nearby Rochester. Around the age of ten Jessie auditioned for critic Thomas Keane,〔 and with his encouragement she left on tour with a production of ''Bertha, the Beautiful Sewing Machine Girl'', a melodrama. After returning home from California she briefly studied at Nazareth Academy, a convent school in Rochester. In 1886 she returned to the stage, working for local opera house owner Edward D. Stair and touring in his productions.〔〔
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