Richard Hellesen

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Richard Hellesen (born 1956) is a West Coast playwright.

His works have been performed by regional theater companies including South Coast Repertory in Orange County, California, the LA Rep (Los Angeles Repertory Company), the Denver Center Theatre Company, Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, [1] City Theatre in Miami, Florida, [2] and Geva Theatre in Rochester, New York. A California resident, the playwright has served on the faculty of California State University, Fullerton and American River College, and has been a resident artist at the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas. [3] He received the Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwriting Award from the National Theatre Conference in 1998. [4] His 1987 musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol , written with composer David de Berry, may be Hellesen's most widely produced work.

Plays by Hellesen (full-length/one-act/theatre for young audiences; date of first production)

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