Jim Helsinger

(Artistic Director)

Jim has directed the Orlando Shakespeare Theater productions of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Crime and Punishment, Every Christmas Story Ever Told, The Imaginary Invalid, Tartuffe, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), The Curate Shakespeare: As You Like It, and Hamlet.

Other directing credits include The Actor's Theatre of Louisville (A Tuna Christmas and The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr, Abridged), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (The Mystery of Irma Vep, Sleuth, Imaginary Invalid, Charley's Aunt and The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr, Abridged), Florida Studio Theatre (Good Evening) Cape May Stage (The Big Bang, Stones in His Pockets, King Mackerel and the Blues are Running and The Fourposter)).

As a playwright, he is the author of Robinson Crusoe; A Christmas Carol in Five Parts; The Trial of Joan the Maid; Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus and Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker. As an actor he has appeared in the titles roles of Henry V, Cyrano De Bergerac, Oscar Wilde, Dracula and Hamlet.

He is also a member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America (STAA), the National Theatre Conference (NTC), Actor's Equity Association (AEA), the Screen Actor's Guild (SAG), and the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (AFTRA). He holds a BA from Miami University (Ohio), and an MFA from from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival / University of Alabama - Professional Actor Training Program.