Jim Helsinger
Artistic Director, Actor, Producer

Jim Helsinger has directed, acted and/or produced over 100 professional productions throughout the country. His directing work includes Hamlet, The Imaginary Invalid, Antony and Cleopatra, Every Christmas Story Ever Told, The Comedy of Errors, Richard III, Tartuffe, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Taming of the Shrew for the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, where he serves as Artistic Director, as well as The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), The Big Bang, The Fourposter, Charley's Aunt, Good Evening, Sleuth, King Mackerel and the Blues Are Running, Stones in His Pockets and A Tuna Christmas at such theatres as the Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Florida Studio Theatre, Cape May Stage and others.

 

As an actor, he has performed Off-Broadway in The Death and Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Contrast; regionally in the title roles of Cyrano de Bergerac, Hamlet, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Dracula, and Henry V; and in TV and film in From the Earth to the Moon, Noah Knows Best, Mortal Kombat, and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

 

As a playwright, his productions include: Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker; Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus; The Trial of Joan the Maid and A Christmas Carol, in Five Parts, and Robinson Crusoe.

 

He is a member of Actor's Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, The American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, the National Theatre Conference, and the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America. He serves as a faculty member of the University of Central Florida, is a graduate of Miami University (Ohio) and holds an MFA from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival/University of Alabama Professional Actor Training Program.

 

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