Recently returning to Melbourne after a number of years in Perth, Helen is a Curtin University and WAAPA graduate. She has worked as an actor and director in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. In Melbourne, she performed in and directed numerous productions at La Mama, was on the board of Melbourne Workers Theatre, was one of their Rapid Response Street Theatre performers and a founding member of The Wallace Co-op, a company specialising in the rarely performed genre of Grand Guignol, the theatre of horror and terror. In Perth, Helen played Olive in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Marcus in an all female version of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Agnus in Tracey Lett's Bug and back in Melbourne,Shirley in Shirley vs the Possums, Mrs Winemiller in Tennessee Williams Summer and Smoke and Erna in the German Punk classic, Holy Motrhers at La Mama.
TV credits include, Ship to Shore, Blue Heelers, MDA, Streetsmartz, and Cloudstreet. Feature films include Dingo, Mallboy, Short Film Maker, the Sci-Fi thriller OtherLife and the soon to be released Some Happy Day.
FEATURE FILM:
Some Happy Day Marilyn C Hill
OtherLife Detective B C Lucus
Short Film Maker Prison Guard M Lahooti
Mallboy Anne-Marie V Giarrusso
Dingo Ruth R De Heer
SHORT FILM:
Leave Me Woman K Blanshard / VCA
FA Marcia M Craven / Tropfest
Travellers Claire R Mudford
The Antidote Beryl A Berridge / RMIT
The Right Moves Mrs Tinley A Salamanca
Puncture Daniella R Mudford / VCA
If Only Diane J Bogle / ECU
Poor Bludgers Mandy R Hutchens
RIP Socrates Secretary S Jodrell / WAAPA
TELEVISION:
Cloudstreet May Blunt M Saville / Showtime
Streetsmartz Detetive Fuller R Webster / GWE
MDA Magda Lassig S Kerr / ABC Drama
MDA Magda Lassig D Reid / ABC Drama
Blue Heelers Gillian Beamish P Sharp / West St Prod
Blue Heelers Michelle Carmody F Banks / West St Prod
Ship to Shore Frogwoman M Smith / Barron Films
DRAMA DOCUMENTARY:
Surviving Mumbai Debra Bayne V Midwinter Pitt/Electric Pictures
Every Family's Nightmare Councillor M Mutz/Prospero Prod
English at Work Libby R Hutchens / SBS
