Sherman, Mildred

Born in Seattle in October of 1903, Mildred Kate Huhn taught performance arts in Washington and Maine before co-founding the Repertory Playhouse Associates in 1931 with her first husband, Herbert Victor Gellendré. Sherman and Gellendré met while both were dramatic directors at The Cornish School in Seattle. The Repertory Playhouse Associates ran a number of theatres in New York and New England, including the Gellendré Theatre Studio of New York City; The Keene Summer Theatre in Keene, New Hampshire; and The Gellendré Country Theatre in Goshen, Connecticut. Huhn and Gellendré continued to work together through their divorce in 1955. After their formal separation, Huhn opened her own actors studio in New York, which she ran until 1965.

Huhn remarried vaudeville actor Joseph T. Sherman in May of 1957 in Maryland. Soon after, the couple moved to Lahaska, Pennsylvania, where they opened a restaurant in 1965 called The Soup Tureen. Sherman died in 2000.

From the guide to the Mildred Sherman papers, 1894-2000, 1930-1944, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.)