Both Boris and Bessie went on to successful but separate careers. Bessie went on to found her own theatre troupe. She took over the management of the People’s Theater in 1915 and the following season the theater was renamed Bessie Thomashefsky’s People’s Theater. She focused on serious social issues of the day, particularly those affecting women, like suffrage and birth-control. Her memoir, "Mayn lebens geshikhte" ("My life’s history: The joys and tribulations of a Yiddish star actress"), as told to A. Tennenholz, was published in 1915.