It is always such a pleasure to welcome Helen Thomson back to The Wharf. In 2012 she performed in Under Milk Wood and The Splinter, and in 2013 plays the title role in a new production of G. B. Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, Helen has been a regular at STC for the best part of two decades, and she has proven over the years to be a glorious chameleon, as comfortable playing a glamorous housewife as a geeky Shakespearean tradesman. Here is her history with STC in pictures...

Helen's first production with STC was the Australian premiere of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1994, directed by Gale Edwards and also starring Hugo Weaving. (Photo: Tracey Schramm)


The following year she was cast in The Shaughraun, and then in 1996 and 1997 she performed in The John Wayne Principle, written by STC's then Playwright-in-Residence Tony McNamara. This production began as a workshop, was then produced as part of the 'New Stages' season, before going on to a Main Stage season and a tour to Melbourne. (Photo: Tracey Schramm)


In 2001, Helen played Lady Sneerwell in a lavish production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, directed by Judy Davis. (Photo: Tracey Schramm)


The following year Helen returned to STC for another Tony McNamara play, The Virgin Mim (which McNamara also directed), opposite Sophie Lee and Jeremy Sims. (Photo: Tracey Schramm)


Four years later, Helen played Lady Macbeth for an Education season of Macbeth that was co-directed by Robert Menzies and Arthur Dignam (who both also acted in the production).


Helen then became a member of the STC Actors Company and performed in three major productions in 2007. First there was Benedict Andrews' take on Patrick White's The Season at Sarsaparilla. (Photo: Tania Kelley)


Later in the year, Helen was part of the ensemble rocking fatigues in The Art of War. (Photo:Tania Kelley)


Finally, she turned in a wonderfully comic performance as Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream, alongside Peter Carroll. (Photo: Heidrun Lohr)


In 2009, Helen was part of a talented quartet of actors (Marcus Graham, Sacha Horler and Russell Dykstra) in a Gale Edwards directed production of Yasmina Reza's The God of Carnage, in which she performed a truly spectacular and memorable vomiting scene. (Photo: Brett Boardman)


Last year, Helen played the giggling Sabrina Daldry in our plush production of In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, opposite Jacqueline Mackenzie. (Photo: Brett Boardman)


Earlier this year she made a return to our stage with an ensemble role in Under Milk Wood. (Photo: Heidrun Lohr)


It is wonderful to have Helen backing this up immediately, playing the mother in our upcoming production The Splinter...

The Splinter, Wharf 1 Theatre, 10 August - 15 September, 2012.
Mrs. Warren's Profession, Wharf 1, 19 February - 6 April, 2013.