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Helen Hage Freeman
Helen Hage Freeman has been involved in the arts in the Tri-State area for 42 years. While completing graduate work, she was the first student selected to direct a main stage production at Marshall University. After graduation, she served as Artistic Director for Community Players, Inc. of Huntington.
Helen is also a well-known freelance director in the region, having directed for Musical Arts Guild, Kanawha Players, and Children’s Theatre of Charleston. She served as a Theatre and Speech teacher at Ceredo-Kenova and Buffalo High Schools. After being recruited, she taught in the same position at Rowan County (KY) Middle School, for four years, where her speech team won the state championship three years in a row.
Next, Mrs. Freeman was recruited to teach Theatre at Capital High School in Charleston, a magnet school for the arts. During her 11 years as a Theatre teacher, her program won first place in the state of West Virginia for 10 years and second place for 1 year.
Helen retired from Huntington High School after guiding that program for 17 years. Under her leadership, the program grew to a record number of students. The theatre program won 1st place in the state for 13 years and 2nd place for 1 years. (Three of those years, the program chose not to compete.)
Today, Helen is semi-retired. She teaches Communications 103 at Spring Valley High School in Huntington, WV for Marshall University, and she continues to direct and teach community theatre classes in the Huntington area.
At the same time Helen was teaching school, she founded and ran—along with her friend Patti Shaver— Huntington Outdoor Theatre. This theatre brought shows to Huntington’s Ritter Park Amphitheatre for 20 years, attracting approximately 700 to 1,000 people per night, with shows running 9 to 12 nights each summer.
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