Helen Hopkins

Biography

Co founder of The Shift Theatre with Carolyn Bock, Helen appeared in their productions of Two Sisters and a Piano and Fred at The Dog Theatre in Footscray. Together they have written, produced and performed in The Girls in Grey, about Australian army nurses during World War 1, which has had a season at Theatre Works in St Kilda and has toured Victoria and N.S.W. and W.A. It was on the VCE curriculum for Drama in 2012 and is published by Currency Press. Her theatre appearances include Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar for Melbourne, Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals for Essential Theatre, The Merry Wives of Windsor at fortyfive downstairs, Wuthering Heights at Ripponlea, Much Ado About Nothing in Perth and Adelaide and the far north of Australia and Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night in Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens and Pygmalion at the Athenaeum Theatre for The Australian Shakespeare Company and Away for the Melbourne Theatre Company. La Mama productions include Lost in Ringwood, The Show Must Go On, Macbeth X, Dizney on Dry Ice, Thy Kingdom Come, Orpheus, Evidence, Monologues for an Apocalypse, Mary Shelley and the Monsters, Good Morning Midnight, Heights, Advice from a Caterpillar. She also appeared in the production of The Women’s Jail Project for the Dublin Fringe Festival. Helen has featured in lead roles in the films The Marey Project, Hamlet X, Ghost Paintings 1-4 and Sensitive New Age Killer (SNAK). Helen is on La Mama Theatre’s Committee of Management.