Helena has taught voice for New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Overseas Programme in Dublin and has also worked in the B.A. in Theatre Studies at University College Cork. Helena was a voice coach for several years on the Professional Actor Training Programme in Trinity College Dublin and has also taughtv oice in the Academia dell‘arte in Arezzo, Italy.
She taught internationally in France, Italy and New York and has worked as a voice coach on many professional productions including Amadeus (Oroboros) and The Alice Trilogy (Abbey Peacock). The Plough and the Stars and Henry IV. Some of her Trinity and N.Y.U work She assisted Andrea Ainsworth at the Abbey on The Plough and includes Waiting for Godot, Twelfth Night, Double Cross, Yerma, Carthaginians, By the Bog of Cats and many more.
Helena set up Actor Training Ireland in 2009 with two colleagues from Trinity Andy Crooke and Paul Keenan. This is a company set up to train professional and non-professional actors throughout the year.
She is a founding member of Songspiel, a cabaret company that devises and performs their work nationally and internationally. She is delighted to be teaching voice for the Irish Film Academy in Dublin and Cork.