Mildred Sherman papers 1894-2000 1930-1944

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Mildred Sherman papers 1894-2000 1930-1944

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American dramatist and puppeteer, Mildred Sherman, was director of the Gellendré Theatre Studio in New York City from the 1940s to the mid-1960s. This collection contains correspondence, photographs, performance programs, press clippings, and scripts documenting Sherman's personal life and professional career.

3.36 linear feet; 8 boxes

The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6317442

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Sherman, Mildred

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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 Keen...

Cornish School of Allied Arts (Seattle, Wash.)

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Founded in 1914 by Nellie C. Cornish as the Cornish School of Music, the Cornish School of Allied Arts quickly became established as the first school in the western United States to offer comprehensive training in all of the arts. Nellie Cornish sought to educate artists through exposure to all art forms and within the first few years of the school's existence she had expanded the curriculum to offer courses in dance, visual arts, theater and design. She recruited a wide...