Helen Evans
CAST
Helen trained in Acting at the University College Bretton Hall and gained an MA and Ph.D in Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, as a recipient of a Royal Central School Research Bursary. Helen heads Acting in Musical Theatre at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, which she balances with performing and directing.
Performing credits include:
An exciting workshop of a new musical of Sherlock Homes, as Mrs Hudson; Multi-roles in Lovesong of The Electric Bear (Arts Theatre, West End); Flora Goforth in Tennessee William’s The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (The Bristol Old Vic R&D); Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Maria in Twelfth Night and Titania and Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Each for Antic Disposition - France open-air tours and Middle Temple Hall, Embankment); Soloist in the glorious The West End in Concert tours (2012 - 2014 . . . and now!); Various in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues and A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer (in aid of Charities against the abuse of women); Alumni Choir in Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert (O2 Arena, 2010, previously on tour); Multi-characters in The Shakespeare Revue (London’s Cochrane, Bloomsbury and Hampstead theatres, and UK and France Tours); Woman in A Woman Alone (for DogOrange, The Horse, Waterloo); Cleopatra and Edith Pretty in BAFTA winning Relic: Guardians of the Museum (BBC); Madame Deux Visage, Librarian Mutternot and Ethelena in 4 series of BAFTA winning Trapped (CBBC); Miss Dinsmore and Ensemble in Singin' in the Rain (National Tour); Jen in the UK Premier of John and Jen (The Finborough Theatre), further, being featured in concert with writer Andrew Lippa (Knightsbridge); Leading Lady/Fan in A Portrait of Ivor Novello (UK Tour); various concerts, cabarets, and variety shows.
Directing credits include:
Amour the Musical, Merrily We Roll Along (as Associate), The Dreaming, The Pirates of Penzance, Anything Goes, Company; Graduate Showcases (Ambassadors and Leicester Square Theatres, West End, 2015-2020), Electra, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Epsom Downs, Zombie Prom, The Beggar's Opera and Company; for Antic Disposition – choreography/ movement direction for Romeo and Juliet (Jermyn Street Theatre); and personal devised performances including, Sanctity of Hair (London Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2007)