Festival Staff 2006-07
Short biographies of our executive team are included below.
You may also want to visit the following areas: -
Email List - A listing of email contacts for our
administrative, education and production staff.
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This page lists non-year-round employees who have appeared significantly in our festival programs
and productions.
- Auditions
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Artistic Director
 Jim
Helsinger (12th season) -has directed the Orlando-UCF
Shakespeare Festival productions of Tartuffe, The Comedy of Errors, A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of
the Shrew, The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), The Curate
Shakespeare: As You Like It, and Hamlet. Other directing credits
include The Actor's Theatre of Louisville (A Tuna Christmas and The
Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr, Abridged), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
(Charley's Aunt and The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr, Abridged),
Cape May Stage (King Mackerel and the Blues are Running and The
Fourposter), The Village Gate, NYC (Circus) and The Brooklyn Project,
NY (Dusk). As an actor for the Festival, he has performed the title roles in Hamlet, Henry V, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, and Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker . He has also performed regionally at such theatres as the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Northshore Music Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Riverside Shakespeare Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Nebraska Repertory Theatre, Chiswick Park Theatre and Cape May Stage. His Off-Broadway credits include The Death and Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Taming of the Shrew and The Contrast. On TV and film, he has appeared in From the Earth to the Moon, General Reiko on Mortal Kombat and Omar Bendix on Sheena: Queen of the Jungle.
He is the author of the one man shows Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker; and Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus; as well as larger cast productions of The Trial of Joan the Maid; and A Christmas Carol, In Five Parts. Mr. Helsinger is a faculty member of Theatre UCF and has directed UCF productions of The Servant of Two Masters, Noises Off, Lend Me A Tenor, The Importance of Being Earnest, You Can't Take It With You and Ah, Wilderness!. He is also a member of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America (STAA), the National Theatre Conference (NTC), Actor's Equity Association (AEA), the Screen Actor's Guild (SAG), and the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists (AFTRA). He holds a BA from Miami University (Ohio), and an MFA from from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival / University of Alabama - Professional Actor Training Program.
Managing Director
Amy Kaiser - (Inaugural Season) Joining us as the new
Managing Director is Amy Kaiser. She leaves her position of Managing Director of
the Pearl Theatre Company in New York City to join the Festival. At the Pearl,
she acted as the chief financial and operations officer handling everything from
day to day and long range financial planning, union and vendor relations, to the
implementation of a complete computer upgrade including new ticketing and donor
management software. Before coming to The Pearl, Amy worked at Union Station
Kansas City, a large cultural venue that boasts a performing arts complex,
children’s science museum and local and traveling history exhibits. She served
as Projects Manager and Volunteer Manager. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Hofstra University with a BFA in Theater Arts.
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