The cast starred Anne Bancroft as Anne Sullivan and Patty Duke as Helen Keller.

The production was directed by Arthur Penn with scenic and lighting design by George Jenkins and costumes by Ruth Morley. The play premiered on Broadway at the Playhouse Theatre on Octoand closed on Jafter 719 performances.

Viney, a servant in the Keller household.

Michael Anagnos, director of the Perkins School for the Blind.

Aunt Ev, Arthur's sister and Helen's aunt.

In this time, Annie teaches Helen discipline through persistence and consistency, and language through hand signals, a double breakthrough that changes Helen's life and has a direct effect on the lives of everyone in the family. After several fierce battles with Helen, Annie convinces the Kellers that she needs two weeks alone with Helen in order to achieve any progress in the girl's education. Desperate, the Kellers hire Annie Sullivan to serve as governess and teacher for their daughter. Pitied and badly spoiled by her parents, Helen is taught no discipline and, by the age of six, grows into a wild, angry, tantrum-throwing child in control of the household. In Tuscumbia, Alabama, an illness renders infant Helen Keller blind, deaf, and consequently mute ( deaf-mute). The play's title was inspired by a Mark Twain quote: 'Helen is a miracle, and Miss Sullivan is the miracle worker'. It was based on Helen Keller's 1903 autobiography The Story of My Life. The Miracle Worker is a three-act play by William Gibson adapted from his 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name. Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker, 1960

The miracle worker by william gibson