HELEN JUVONEN, CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Helen is the Co-Artistic Director of Guild Festival Theatre, the founder and Artistic Director of Thought For Food Productions as well as an independent actor, director, producer and playwright. For GFT she has directed The Red Priest, Salt-Water Moon and co-directed Anne.

With Thought For Food she has produced, directed and/or appeared in over a dozen shows including her own play The Aleatory Project. TFF highlights include directing Agnes of God, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and The Universal Wolf; producing and performing in the Canadian Premiere of The Memo by Vaclav Havel (translation by Paul Wilson) and producing Dark Heart.

Helen’s acting credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Spadina Museum/Single Thread); Beauty and the Beast (Sudbury Theatre Centre) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Casa Loma). Helen was the last actress to play Mollie in the long-running Toronto production of The Mousetrap.

As a screenwriter Helen has created the award-winning short film “Advances” and the upcoming webseries “You’re Never Alone”. Helen is the recipient of the Cayle Chernin Award and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee pin. She is also a Jeopardy! Champion.