BIOGRAPHY,Helen’s first theatrical love was for dance. At seven years old she started her dance training with Graham Fletcher Dip. RBS (TCPD) RAD RTS, former principal of the Royal Ballet Company, with whom she continued to train for the next eleven years.
After this time, Helen’s vocational training started in earnest when she embarked on the 3-year diploma course at Chantry School in Grantham, Lincolnshire, where she graduated with a Diploma in Contemporary and Balletic Arts, as well as an IDTA Level 4 Diploma in Dance Teaching. Following graduation, Helen acknowledged her burgeoning desire to sing and act, as well as to dance, and realised the only way she could forge the career she dreamed of is if she sought out the relevant training. With this in mind, she made the decision to audition for drama school, and studied for an MA in musical theatre at Guildford School of Acting, where she had the privilege of playing Little Guido in Maury Yeston’s lesser revived musical, Nine. Helen has gained professional credits in pantomime, children’s theatre and rural open air theatre and is very optimistic and positive about her future. Always seeking adventure and eager to learn more, Helen applies herself wholeheartedly to her craft because she sincerely believes in the importance of the creation of art and in engaging with audiences through the medium of theatre. When Helen is not treading the boards, she finds much fulfilment in teaching young people dance and acting and feels passionately about enabling access to all young people, who might not otherwise have access, to performing arts education for its benefits in promoting self-exploration and self-expression. And when she's not teaching, you can find her working on her aerial silks skills, which is a new hobby she has very much become very slightly addicted to... |