page_title: Theresa Helburn
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Theresa Helburn / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Theresa Helburn (1887–1959) at the laying of the corner-stone of the New York Guild Theatre in 1924.
context_page_description: Theresa Helburn was an American playwright and theatrical producer best known for her work as a co-founder and producer of New York's Theatre Guild from 1919 to the 1950s.
context_section_description: Helburn was born in New York City to Julius Helburn, a leather merchant, and Hannah née Peyser, who established her own experimental elementary school. She attended the Horace Mann School and Windsor School in Boston before graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1908. There she was active in theatre. She then studied playwriting at Radcliffe College and at the Sorbonne. She then taught theatre and wrote drama criticism. By 1918, the first of her own plays was produced on Broadway.
caption: Helburn at the laying of the cornerstone of the Guild Theatre in 1924
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