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Copyright 2009 Greenwich Village Orchestra. All rights reserved.
Copyright 2009 Greenwich Village Orchestra. All rights reserved.
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Helen-Jean Arthur, Narrator
Helen-Jean Arthur catapulted to New York from Chicago to be an
actor. After studying with Uta Hagen and Lee Strasberg she
married the late Michael Dunn, a cellist, and as the young
mother of four, needing some outlet of her own, began violin
lessons. Eventually she was accepted as an adult student by
William Lincer, who was then Leonard Bernstein’s first violist in
the N.Y. Philharmonic and on the Juilliard faculty. She and
Michael helped to found GVO and then she returned to her
career. She was in the original productions of "Sister Mary
Ignatius Explains It All To You" and "A Lie of the Mind," and the
New York premiere of Tom Stoppard’s “Indian Ink” among some
50 Broadway and Off-Broadway plays. Most recently, she was in
the Humana Festival in Louisville and in “Therese Raquin” at the
Atlantic here in New York. Other regional credits include Arena
Stage in D.C. and The Guthrie Theatre. National Public Radio
fans may have heard her broadcast from Symphony Space in
Selected Shorts and the annual "Bloomsday.” She also did
what felt like a prison stint on a soap, "Loving," for four years.
She still tours and concertizes world-wide in the repertoire for
actress with symphony orchestra. Upcoming commitments
include two engagements with upstate orchestras in “Façade,”
the Edith Sitwell nonsense poetry set to music by Sir William
Walton.
Between shows she returns to GVO and feels privileged to play
the big orchestral repertoire under Barbara Yahr’s direction.
She and her children own an 1840 house in the city and part of
an old farm in the Catskills, where she works in the woods and
gardens like a maniac.
actor. After studying with Uta Hagen and Lee Strasberg she
married the late Michael Dunn, a cellist, and as the young
mother of four, needing some outlet of her own, began violin
lessons. Eventually she was accepted as an adult student by
William Lincer, who was then Leonard Bernstein’s first violist in
the N.Y. Philharmonic and on the Juilliard faculty. She and
Michael helped to found GVO and then she returned to her
career. She was in the original productions of "Sister Mary
Ignatius Explains It All To You" and "A Lie of the Mind," and the
New York premiere of Tom Stoppard’s “Indian Ink” among some
50 Broadway and Off-Broadway plays. Most recently, she was in
the Humana Festival in Louisville and in “Therese Raquin” at the
Atlantic here in New York. Other regional credits include Arena
Stage in D.C. and The Guthrie Theatre. National Public Radio
fans may have heard her broadcast from Symphony Space in
Selected Shorts and the annual "Bloomsday.” She also did
what felt like a prison stint on a soap, "Loving," for four years.
She still tours and concertizes world-wide in the repertoire for
actress with symphony orchestra. Upcoming commitments
include two engagements with upstate orchestras in “Façade,”
the Edith Sitwell nonsense poetry set to music by Sir William
Walton.
Between shows she returns to GVO and feels privileged to play
the big orchestral repertoire under Barbara Yahr’s direction.
She and her children own an 1840 house in the city and part of
an old farm in the Catskills, where she works in the woods and
gardens like a maniac.
