Geraldine Sherman

Geraldine Sherman (born Geraldine Judith Schoenmann) known as Dena Hammerstein, is a British actress and writer, and theatre producer. She was the third wife of James Hammerstein, and after his death became president/CEO of James Hammerstein Productions Ltd. Her father Kurt Wilhelm Schoenmann was born in Teplice in 1915. He married Edith Peller, later coming to Britain to escape Nazi persecution, but was interned in March 1940 because his nationality was Austrian. He was then transported to Australia on the infamous 1940 Dunera voyage, and held in Loveday and Tatura internment camps until 1942.

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+Television Date Title Role NotesForeign Affairspeasant girlGranada Television Catch Hand: Stop Counting at OneMarianBBC tv Love Story: Arranged for StringsMiss FishATVThe Big Noise, or Episodes in the Uneasy Life of a Top Pop Disc JockeyJackieBBC tv Up the JunctionRubeBBC tv Softly, Softly: The KeyEileen MurphyBBC tv Juke Box JurySelf – panellistBBC tv – King of the RiverSusanna KingBBC tv 15 episodes: Till Death Us Do Part: A Woman's Place is in the HomeBBC tv Juke Box JurySelf – panellistBBC tv – The Forsyte SagaVictorine BicketBBC tvThe Wednesday Play: Death of a PrivateMaryBBC tv Thirty-Minute Theatre: The Sinnerthe GirlBBC tv Public Eye: Cross That Palm When We Come to ItFayABC TelevisionThe Wednesday Play: A Bit of Crucifixion, FatherSheilaBBC tv ITV Sunday Night Theatre: Bangelstein's BoysDick's GirlLWT Strange Report: Report 2475: Revenge - When a Man HatesSecretaryArena ProductionsThe Wednesday Play: There is also TomorrowRosemaryBBC tv The Root of All Evil?: Bloxham's Concerto for Critic and CarpenterPippaYorkshire Television Play of the Month: E. M. Forster's Howards EndJackyBBC tv Doomwatch: The IslandersAliceBBC tv Play for Today: Edna, the Inebriate WomanTrudiBBC tv – Killers: The Stinie Morrison CaseNellie DeitchThames Television 2 episodes: Little Miss PerkinsMrs. IssacsLWT The Professionals: You'll Be All RightChrissie StoneLWT Screen One: Running LateMrs ZeeBBC tv Soldier Soldier: Hell and High WaterMrs. Beryl GreyCentral Independent Television

+Stage Date Title Role Theatre Notes – Butley Miss HeasmanMorosco Theatre, New York

Writer When It's Over, by Geraldine Sherman and Eduardo Machado: Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut: playreading 1985–1986, workshop 1986–1987 Finborough Theatre, London, 23 October – 16 November 1991

Thin Ice, 1995 film

Theatre producer +Theatre Producer(Dena Hammerstein) Dates Title Author Director Theatre Notes – I Love You, You're Perfect, Now ChangeJoe DiPietro and music by Jimmy RobertsJoel BishoffWestside Theatre (Upstairs), New York – AllegroRodgers & HammersteinEric SchaefferSignature Theatre, Arlington, Virginia – Dirty BlondeClaudia ShearJames LapineDuke of York's Theatre, London – SlutBen H. Winters & Stephen SislenGordon GreenbergAmerican Theater of Actors / Century Promenade, New York – Sunday in the Park with GeorgeStephen Sondheim & James LapineSam BuntrockWyndhams Theatre, London – My Name Is Rachel CorrieAlan Rickman and Katharine VinerAlan RickmanMinetta Lane Theatre, New York – Dealer's ChoicePatrick MarberSamuel WestTrafalgar Studios, London – The SeagullAnton Chekhov, new version by Christopher Hampton, music by Stephen WarbeckIan RicksonWalter Kerr Theatre, New York – Our TownThornton WilderDavid CromerBarrow Street Theatre, New York – Superior DonutsTracy LettsTina LandauMusic Box Theatre, New York – EnronLucy Prebble (words), Adam Cork (music)Rupert GooldBroadhurst Theatre, New York – ButleySimon GrayLindsay PosnerDuchess Theatre, London – Honeymoon in VegasJason Robert BrownGary GriffinNederlander Theatre, New York

Philanthropist Dena Hammerstein worked as a volunteer in New York City hospitals for over 15 years, and in 2003 received the United Hospital Funds New Leadership Group's Humanitarian Award. She is Founder of Only Make Believe, a non-profit organisation that creates and performs interactive theatre for children in hospitals and care facilities, inspired by her early work as an actress in the UK touring special-needs schools.

Personal life In 1970, a choreographer friend invited her to holiday in New York where she met Jamie Hammerstein.

Married theatre director James Hammerstein who directed her in Butley, and has one son Simon Hammerstein (born 1977).