Helen Hedman

“To step into the life of a character, to live that life, and to hold out your hand to the audience and say, ‘Come with me’…what an honor to be trusted with this. What a thrill to do it in such great company.”

Biography

[EVERYMAN THEATRE]: (Resident Company Member): Highlights include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Doll’s House, Dinner and Cake, Sense and Sensibility, The Skin of Our Teeth, Steel Magnolias, Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, The Importance of Being Earnest, and more. [REGIONAL]: Arena Stage: Watch on the Rhine, A Delicate Balance, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Women, The Caucasian Chalk Circle; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, The Country Wife and Camino Real; Round House: I’ll Get You Back Again, Rapture, Blister, Burn, The Chemistry of Change, The Rehearsal; Studio Theatre: The Year of Magical Thinking; Signature Theatre: Escaped Alone, Crazy for You, Beaches, Show Boat, My Fair Lady, The Sex Habits of American Women; Olney Theatre: Piaf, Triumph of Love, Omnium Gatherum; Rep Stage: The Seagull, Mrs. Farnsworth, Kimberly Akimbo; Ford’s Theatre: Sabrina Fair, A Christmas Carol; Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma: The Glass Menagerie, An Inspector Calls; International Shaw Conference: Press Cuttings; St. Louis Repertory: Canterbury Tales. [TV/FILM]: Homicide, Silent Fall with Richard Dreyfuss and Beast.