Monday Night Guest Speaker Series-Heather Helinsky

Go to www.BrownPaperTickets.com or www.facebook.com/hollinsplaywrights/events/ to request the Zoom link. Each Monday night the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University and Mill Mountain Theatre present a talk by a prominent working professional theatre artist. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing the Monday Night Guest Speaker Series will be presented live via Zoom. Heather Helinsky (dramaturg) has been the resident dramaturg at the Great Plains Theatre Conference since 2010. In 2016, Helinsky received a summer fellowship to the O’Neill National Critics Institute and received mentorship from Chris Jones. She was the production dramaturg for Tira Palmquist’s Two Degrees at the Denver Center and Andrea Hart’s premiere of dark is a different beast in San Francisco. For the Kennedy Center, Helinsky mentors student dramaturgs, regionally and nationally, and reads for the David Mark Cohen award. She received her M.F.A. in dramaturgy and theatre studies from the ART/MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard. Admission: free, open to the public.