Julia Heynen is an American stage actress. She defined the role of
Helen in Jacob Appel's Helen of Sparta at the Venus Theatre, a role in
which critic Ted Ying singled out her performance as a "forceful
personification of the face that launched a thousand ships" and
praised her as "beautiful, confident, [and] charismatic." She also
originated the part of Ophelia in Chris Wind's Not Such Stuff.Critic
Sophia Carteret wrote of Heynen that she "lets Ophelia's voice speak
out as Shakespeare should have done. She lets us see the conflicting
emotions of a girl learning to see the world with a woman's eyes; one
who, in aiming to do right, comes to see that the duty of listening,
reflecting, and obeying can be less important than the acts of
observing, questioning, and seeking to correct the errors committed by
oneself and others. Given the longest segment in the play, this
character shows the most complexity and personal development on stage
and the actor gives the role all that it needs to succeed both
dramatically and intellectually."Heynen earlier starred in regional
productions of Private Eyes, Hedda Gabler, Pirandello's Six Characters
in Search of an Author and nearly three dozen other productions in the
Washington and Baltimore areas.As of the summer of , she is starring
in the Red Branch Theatre's production of David Auburn's Proof. The
New Dramatist named her a "local legend" in , the first from the
Baltimore-Washington region in eight years.
Helen in Jacob Appel's Helen of Sparta at the Venus Theatre, a role in
which critic Ted Ying singled out her performance as a "forceful
personification of the face that launched a thousand ships" and
praised her as "beautiful, confident, [and] charismatic." She also
originated the part of Ophelia in Chris Wind's Not Such Stuff.Critic
Sophia Carteret wrote of Heynen that she "lets Ophelia's voice speak
out as Shakespeare should have done. She lets us see the conflicting
emotions of a girl learning to see the world with a woman's eyes; one
who, in aiming to do right, comes to see that the duty of listening,
reflecting, and obeying can be less important than the acts of
observing, questioning, and seeking to correct the errors committed by
oneself and others. Given the longest segment in the play, this
character shows the most complexity and personal development on stage
and the actor gives the role all that it needs to succeed both
dramatically and intellectually."Heynen earlier starred in regional
productions of Private Eyes, Hedda Gabler, Pirandello's Six Characters
in Search of an Author and nearly three dozen other productions in the
Washington and Baltimore areas.As of the summer of , she is starring
in the Red Branch Theatre's production of David Auburn's Proof. The
New Dramatist named her a "local legend" in , the first from the
Baltimore-Washington region in eight years.
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