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Who Played Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Helena is a role in A Midsummer Night's Dream, a play that opened Off-Broadway in 2017.

In July, the Delacorte Theater will transform into the most enchanted forest in all of theater in Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. When the merry sprite Puck meddles with a magical love potion, young lovers lost in the woods mysteriously find themselves infatuated with the wrong person in this hilarious, fairytale fantasia that proves the course of true love never did run smooth. Lear deBessonet, Founder of The Public Theater’s groundbreaking Public Works program and Resident Director, brings her electric theatrical vision to the classic romance about the supernatural nature of love. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM was first staged at the Delacorte Theater in 1982, directed by James Lapine with music by Allen Shawn, featuring Christine Baranski as Helena, Kevin Conroy as Lysander, and Paul Bates as Flute. It was later staged in 1991, directed by Cacá Rosset, and featuring Augusto Pompeo as Puck, Carolina N. Ribeiro as Helena, and Rubens Caribé as Lysander. It was last staged at the Delacorte in 2007 directed by Daniel Sullivan, featuring Martha Plimpton as Helena, Laila Robins as Titania, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Flute, and Jay O. Sanders as Bottom.

22 actors have played Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

View full cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream

Performer Production Opened
Ida Conquest Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1903
Lansing Rowan Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1906
Lillah McCarthy Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1915
Rosamond Pinchot Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1927
Carolyn Ferriday Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1932
Joan Benham Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1954
Laurinda Barrett Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1956
Robert Benson Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1967
Frances de la Tour Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1971
Lucy Lee Flippen Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1975
Christiane McKenna Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1977
Pamela Nyberg Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1981
Christine Baranski Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1982
Elizabeth McGovern Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1987
Carolina N. Ribeiro Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1991
Jimmy Szczepanek Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1994
Emily Raymond Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1996
Jane Colenutt Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 1996
Martha Plimpton Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2007
Halley Wegryn Gross Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2012
Annaleigh Ashford Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Lily Simpkiss West End A Midsummer Night's Dream 2025

Other Roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Role Production Opened
Demetrius Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Egeus Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Fairy Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Francis Flute Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Helena Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Hermia Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Hippolyta Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Lysander Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Nick Bottom Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Peter Quince Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Puck Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Robin Starveling Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Snug Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Theseus Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Titania Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017
Tom Snout Off-Broadway A Midsummer Night's Dream 2017

“Helena” Also Appears In

Production Type Year
All's Well that Ends Well Broadway 1983

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