Which early stage productions established Elia Kazan as a director after the Group Theatre disbanded?

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Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him. — Elia Kazan Elia Kazan on the set of *Panic in the Streets*, 1950.

Following the disbanding of the Group Theatre in 1941, Elia Kazan established his reputation as a stage director through his work on the following productions:

The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) by Thornton Wilder1
One Touch of Venus (1943), written by Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash, and S.J. Perelman1