Eileen Huban

Huban was born in Gort, Loughrea, Ireland.^[1] She was the youngest of nine children of Michael Huban and Winifred Mullins Huban. She attended a convent school,^[2] and moved to the United States to be with her widowed mother and sisters by 1913.^[3]

Huban's first public performance was as a singer in the 1913 Irish Historic Pageant at the Lexington Avenue Armory in New York City.^[4] Her New York stage credits included roles in the shows Lonesome-like (1915),^[5] The Grasshopper (1917),^[6] Old Friends (1917),^[7] On With the Dance (1917),^[8] Cheating Cheaters (1918), Crops and Croppers (1918),^[9] Dark Rosaleen (1919),^[10] Paddy the Next Best Thing (1920),^[11] Hindle Wakes (1922), King Henry IV, Part I (1926), Window Panes (1927),^[12] Mixed Marriage (1930),^[13] and Troilus and Cressida (1932).^[3][14] She was also seen in the silent film Find the Woman (1922).

"She is lovely to behold, a person naturally eloquent and dramatic," wrote a New York Times reviewer in 1917. "She plays with a grateful simplicity and directness, and she has a certain eeriness that is fascinating."^[14] "Her voice is a fine mezzo-soprano with unusual range and power," noted the Baltimore Sun in 1919, while also remarking on her "large dark-blue eyes" and "dark brown curls".^[1]

Huban served several three-year terms on the board of directors of the Actors' Fidelity League.^[15]