Biography
Matilda Award winning Australian Artist Helen O’Leary has built a career in voiceover, acting and playwriting. Helen prides herself on preparedness and precision, providing a unique spin on multiple character narratives, animation, podcasts, eLearning, and commercial copy. Television: Troppo, In Our Blood, Fireflies, The Jesters, Water Rats, Packed to the Rafters, All Saints, Home and Away. Theatre: Toy Symphony and Hedda (Queensland Theatre), Let’s be friends Furever (Brisbane Festival). Voiceover: Main cast character vocals for State Library of Queensland’s QANZAC Podcast Put Out into the Deep. Narrator for the audiobooks: Bone Memories by Sally Piper (Bolinda Publishing / UQP) and Subsidence recorded with Guy Webster at Hunting Ground Studios.
Awards
Helen’s playwriting and live theatre performance work have received critical acclaim.
Matilda Award Recipient -
Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Swallow
Sydney Fringe Festival Award Recipient - Award for Excellence in Writing & Performance - My Paris
Sydney Theatre Award Nomination -
Best Actress in an Independent Production - God’s Ear
Matilda Award Nomination -
Best Actress in a Leading Role -
The Confabulator
Credits & Links
Helen O'Leary has worked extensively across multiple genres in the Arts.
Writing
Plays
The Confabulator and Shutter
Woolloongabba Art Gallery, WAG.
My Paris and Last
Old 505 Theatre
Sydney Fringe Festival
Memoir & Biography
Subsidence Available formats Audiobook and ebook
https://www.book2look.com/book/oRUCSzkWBk
Podcast
Clayton’s Christmas
Film
Martha’s New Coat (Selected Film Critics’ Circle of Australia Awards & Finalist Montreal World Film Festival), Vacant, I long for you to See Me (CN Productions), Adrift (Selected Dendy Awards Australian Short Films), Luck (Selected Tropfest Best of the Rest Awards), One Born Every Minute (St Kilda Festival Finalist)
https://newtownfilms.com.au/project/marthas-new-coat/
Performance Stage
Queensland Theatre: Toy Symphony, Hedda, The School for Scandal, Christmas at Turkey Beach (including tour), Julius Caesar, QTC Oz Shorts, Drac and the Gremlin and Skip (including tours with QPAC, Out of the Box Festival, Adelaide’s Come Out Festival and QAC). Brisbane Festival and The Good Room: Let’s be friends Fur-ever and That’s What She Said. Metro Arts: Swallow, Fourplay. Seymour Centre: God’s Ear. Belvoir BSharp: The Golden Ass, Morgue, 24 Hour Play Project.NIDA: Platonic (7 On) Riverside Theatre: A View from Moving Windows. Bare-boards Theatre: The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (tours Create NSW and Victorian Arts Centre) La Boite: The Threepenny Opera, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Horizons, Shock of the New. TN! Theatre: The Popular Mechanicals, TN!2 Deckchair Canopy (QAC tours) Meta-Luna: The Adman. Cement Box Theatre: Cyrano De Bergerac
https://app.showcast.com.au/actorprofiles/ap-518m4371/322737/1576071
Animation Lead Vocals
Adventures of the Hot Chunks (Nickelodeon), Pixel & Burundi’s.
Voiceover National Campaigns
Queensland Travel and Tourism - Tropical North Queensland
Toyota Corolla - Woo-Hoo Corolla Liftback
Maggi - Pan Sensations
McDonalds - Muffin and Cappuccino Break
Sara Lee Classic Ice-cream
Subway
Instant Scratch Its
Pizza Hut
Sea World Nara Resort
Conrad Jupiter's Casino
HCF Health Cover
Flight Centre
Angus and Coote
Vodaphone