Nancy Helms, member of ACTRA, Equity and UDA is a dialect and voice coach, theatre director, stage and screen actor, voice-over artist and opera and music theatre performer who taught at Banff Arts Centre in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University, and ART in Boston (American Repertory Theatre). She coached film and television performers: Hiro Sanada (Helix I, II), Gerard Butler (300), Penelope Cruz (Noel), Kit Harington (The Death and Life of JFD), and a number of Cirque du Soleil performers as well as journalists and reporters at CTV.