[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).

"She is lovely to behold, a person naturally eloquent and dramatic," wrote a New York Times reviewer in 1917.

"[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.