Richard Hellesen
Richard Hellesen is a West Coast playwright.
His play "" premiered Off-Broadway at the Theatre at St. Clements starring John Rubinstein in June, 2023, after a developmental production in October/November, 2022 at Theatre West in Los Angeles. Hellesen's works have been performed by regional theater companies including South Coast Repertory in Orange County, California, the LA Rep, the Denver [Center Theatre Company], Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, City Theatre in Miami, Florida, and Geva Theatre in Rochester, New York. A California resident, the playwright has served on the faculty of California State University, Fullerton and American River College, and has been a resident artist at the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas. He received the Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwriting Award from the National Theatre Conference in 1998. His 1987 musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, written with composer David de Berry, may be Hellesen's most widely produced work.
Plays by Hellesen (full-length/one-act/theatre for young audiences; date of first production)
Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground Necessary Sacrifices The Road From Appomattox Gathering Blue You're Getting Warmer Johnny Tremain One Destiny The Emperor's New Clothes Eureka! Birdman The Wind in the Willows A Speedy and Public Trial The Pride of Weedpatch Camp Indian Summer Power Play Teardown Bad Water Blues Communique Kingdom Untamed Counting Ninas Cyrano de Bergerac Layin' Off the Lizard-Boy 4/100ths Caribbean Folk Tales Trashed! Birds of a Feather Dos Corazones A Cappella My Mom's Dad Face2Face Once In Arden Gift Rap The Twelve Dancing Princesses A Christmas Carol Moonshadow Couvade Drive In- 1040 Blues