The Jack Freimann papers contain correspondence, scrapbooks, audio visual recordings of Harper Joy Theater productions, scripts, playbills, and other ephemera from Freimann’s life spanning from 1944 to 2018. The majority of the collection covers Freimann’s time as theater professor at Whitman from 1962 to 1992. However, some outliers exist, such as playbills from 1923 to the 1940s and a costume plate from the 1800, that Freimann likely collected.

Correspondences from individuals that appeared frequently or were mostly together when donated have been given their own folders under the correspondence series. Other correspondences are organized by decade, with postcards separated from letters.

The following is a list of the individuals with dedicated folders in the collection:

Dirk Benedict ‘64: Actor on Broadway and in film, best known for the Battlestar Galactica film (1978) and television series (1978-1979).

Steve Brady ‘78(?): Actor in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the California State University Long Beach Master of Fine Arts program.

Scott Campbell ‘84: Actor in Los Angeles throughout the late 1980s, worked temporary jobs and wrote from office computers, auditioned for off-broadway in NYC, friend of Dana Williams (Whitman ‘83), studied in London post-grad.

Mark Chamberlin ‘77: Actor in New York City, performed on Broadway, died at age 55 after falling off his bike in Seattle in 2011.

Ray Chapman ‘83: Seattle actor, affiliated with the Annex Theater (Seattle’s oldest fringe theater).

Robert Hegland ‘63(?): Military service member that sent yearly Christmas letters about travels.

Frank Lott ‘82: Traveling actor and stage manager, Lott wrote many postcards from around the world.

Christina Mastin ‘84: Actor who wrote a letter from backstage in a theater production on a paper towel.

Sheila McClure ‘90(?): Producer for television in Los Angeles beginning in the mid-1990s, world traveler/reporter, currently lives in England and writes romance and mystery novels.

Scott Renderer ‘79: Actor in New York City throughout the 1980s and 1990s, founded Upper Jay Arts Center in upstate New York in 2005.

Mark Scott ‘84: Designer, writer, and ukulele musician, associated with the LGBTQIA+ community on campus, studied in the Netherlands at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Letters discuss the personal impact of the AIDS crisis.

Dana Williams ‘83: Set designer, professor at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, MFA at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.