Helen M O'Leary

Matilda Award winning Australian Artist Helen O’Leary has built a career in voiceover, acting and playwriting. Helen prides herself on preparedness and precision, voicing animation, podcasts and commercial copy. She has worked professionally across multiple platforms in Theatre, Television and Film. Narrator for the audiobooks: Bone Memories by Sally Piper (UQP), Subsidence and SLQ's’s QANZAC Podcast Put Out into the Deep. Author of Subsidence: A daughter longs to guide her mother through the hardest of journeys of memory loss, paving a way with her own remembrance; for memory is an actor’s most powerful tool. She prepares to perform a show to honour her mother. Despite the theatre being booked and tickets sold, her mother passes away just before opening night. Subsidence gives grace to deep wounds laid bare as memory fails but love endures. The actor strides across grey days of grief, into the spotlight to share a life well-loved and lived. Endorsement: 'Subsidence is a beautiful and tender rendering of memoir, driven by the author’s need to remember and honour her mother, who lived with dementia. O’Leary pulls the threads of memory together in a mesmerising weave: a gossamer spell. Her lived experience of theatre and her childhood with her mother are woven across timelines both past and present in this stunning experimental work. Subsidence is vital reading for those with loved ones experiencing memory loss.' – Anna Jacobson (Author of Amnesia Findings)

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