Harley Granville-Barker was an English actor, director, producer, critic, playwright, and Shakespearean scholar. He was especially well-known for his productions of Shakespeare which revolutionized the way the Bard's plays would be performed in the theatre with their naturally spoken dialogue. 

The Voysey Inheritance, perhaps Granville-Barker's most important play, tells the story of Edward Voysey, a solicitor for a London law firm who discovers that his father, a lawyer in the firm, has been pulling money from his clients' trust funds in order to finance his extravagant lifestyle (Bench Theatre).  

Broadway works include his debut play, The Weather Hen (Manhattan Theatre); Prunella and The Morris Dance (Little Theatre); Pan and the Young Shepherd (Greenwich Village Theatre); Deburau (Belasco Theatre); The Madras House and The Romantic Young Lady (Neighborhood Playhouse); Dr. Knock (American Laboratory); The Kingdom of God (Ethel Barrymore Theatre); and A Hundred Years Old and Anatol (Lyceum Theatre).