Helene Simkin Jara
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Helene Simkin Jara

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Helene Simkin Jara is an actor, director, writer and teacher. She studied Theatre Arts at UCLA and has performed in New York, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Salinas, Carmel and Santa Cruz. She has directed several plays in Santa Cruz, California as well as produced plays for a bilingual Spanish/English theatre company called Teatro de Aquellas in 1983 who once performed in Soledad prison. She has been published in The Porter Gulch Review, La Revista, Mindprints and Nerve Cowboy. In 2003 she was awarded best prose in the Porter Gulch Review for her short story "Josefina", once again in 2009 for her play FUBMC and again in 2011 for her monologue "Vat Means Rad?" In 2007 her poem "The Difference" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her only regret so far in regards to writing is having given the first book she ever wrote in the third grade to a teacher she was terrified of in Maplewood, New Jersey. For more information, please visit: http://www.helenesimkinjara.com/
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