Helen Dewey Reikofski

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ABOUT HELEN DEWEY REIKOFSKI

Goal: To contribute creatively in the performing arts for many more years, as a coach, educator, performer and director. Teaching Experience: • Classroom instructor English Diction, currently UNT College of Music. Recent: Instructor as adjunct theater faculty - at UNT (Aesthetics of Theatre Around the World.) Private voice teacher, high school choir director, chapel choir director, assistant voice instructor- college level, acting teacher, workshop and master class teacher:Auditions, Voice, and Meisner Acting Technique. Performance Experience: • More than 30 major roles on stage including Abigail Adams/1776 (Little Theatre of the Rockies), Josephine/HMS Pinafore (Cambridge Operatic Society, The Arts Theatre, Cambridge U.K.), Contessa/ le nozze di Figaro (college-UNC, and Rome Festival 2003- Rome, Italy), Musetta/ la boheme -with Bruce Ford (college-TTU and Rome Festival 2004-) Marguerite/Faust -with Marcus Haddock and Terry Cook (TTU), Jack\'s Mother/Into the Woods (TWU) Cinderella\'s Mother/Into the Woods (WaterTower Theatre), The Wizard of Oz -with Flying by Foy (Verizon Irving), Anna/The King and I (Marquette, Michigan) Lily/The Secret Garden (Denton, TX and Richardson, Texas), Ensemble/Ragtime (Lyric stage, Irving) Agnes/I Do! I Do!(First Productions, Denton), Meg/Damn Yankees, Nimue/Camelot (Denton), Mrs. Grose/ Britten\'s The Turn of the Screw (UNT), and so forth. • More than 30 professional opera choruses and supporting roles, including Boris Godunov, la boheme, Queen of Spades, Otello, Tosca, Butterfly, Jenufa, Nabucco, Carmen, la traviata, Magic Flute, Turandot, Pagliacci, Cavalleria rusticana, Merry Widow, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux, Aida, Cosi fan tutte, Aspern Papers, La rondine, upcoming: Tchaikovsky\'s Iolantha. • Major roles in theater include Lady Capulet in Shakespeare\'s Romeo and Juliet, Feste in Twelfth Night, Janet in Murrell\'s Waiting for the Parade, First wife in The Juniper Tree.