Nicole Helfer

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Nicole is an award-winning choreographer, director, and performing artist, and has been a dance and theatre teacher for 25 years. She has graced the San Francisco Playhouse stage several times now as both choreographer and performer including as Cassie in A Chorus Line, understudy for Harry the Horse and Benny Southstreet in Guys & Dolls, and as a swing for Cabaret, Groundhog Day, Follies, and Evita. Additional performance credits include Marian Paroo in The Music Man, Fantine in Les Misérables (Shellie Award), Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors (Shellie nomination), Cassie and Val in A Chorus Line, Velma Kelly in Chicago (San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nomination), Betty Shaeffer in Sunset Boulevard (Shellie nomination), Sarah in The Lover by Harold Pinter, Kate Monster and Lucy T. Slut in the regional premiere of Avenue Q, Miraid in Brimstone (SFBATCC and Shellie nominee), and Kitty in Sweet Charity, as well as featured ensemble roles in A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder and Me and My Girl.