Heather Helinsky is a dramaturg that playwrights have recognized as “especially adept at freeing energies in unexpected ways. She encourages discovery.” Nationally, her dramaturgical work has been seen at the American Repertory Theatre, Arizona Repertory Theatre, Borderlands Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Kennedy Center, The Lark, Miracle Theatre in Portland, Moscow Art Theatre’s American Studio, Omaha Community Playhouse, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Salt Lake Acting Company, Telluride Playwrights Festival, and Woolly Mammoth. She was the 2008 recipient of the Beatrice, Benjamin, and Richard Bader Fellowship for the Visual Art of Theatre at Houghton Library. She moves fluidly between classical dramaturgy and new play development; she has been the Literary Manager of the Pittsburgh Public and PICT Classic Theatre as well as part of the National New Play Network’s rolling world premiere of Caridad Svich’s Guapa and a dramaturg for The Apothetae. As an educator, she’s mentored emerging dramaturgs at KCACTF Regions 4, 6 & 7 and was the National Dramaturgy Coordinator for KCACTF in ’12 & ‘13. She has been a Visiting Professor of Dramaturgy at the University of Arizona (‘07/08), Carnegie Mellon School of Drama (‘12/’13), and adjunct work at Brooklyn College ('15) and Lesley University ('16 & '17). Her M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Theatre Studies is from the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard. Member of LMDA since 2006. www.helinskydramaturgy.com

New play development, activism/climate change, theatre criticism, as well as classical dramaturgy

Yes

English, some Russian