Zach Helm
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Zach Helm (born January 21, 1975 in Santa Clara, California) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
The son of school teachers, Helm was raised in a town of less than 50 citizens in the Sierra Nevadas of California.
He first became known for writing Stranger than Fiction (2006), which garnered much acclaim for Helm, including awards from the National Board of Review and PEN International.
He is best known internationally for his acclaimed stage play Good Canary, which has been translated and produced around the world, garnering multiple awards and accolades. He is also known for the film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) (which he wrote and directed) and his one-man performance pieces, most notably his revival of Spalding Gray's Interviewing the Audience. Helm has also spent much time developing his own "open input" approach to drama, a collaborative process focused on helping artists mine narrative material from the real world.
Using interviews, physical research, devised theater techniques and dramaturgy, the egalitarian approach has been used by Helm to help artists around the world, from primary school children to amateur filmmakers.
Career
In 2006 Helm was approached to direct Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, for which he had previously written a screenplay. Helm said that the film and production process were troubled. In 2013, he described the movie as a "Technicolor train-wreck" as reported by online tabloid news source TMZ.
Helm also wrote the 2006 fantasy comedy-drama film Stranger than Fiction.
He began Interviewing the Audience in 2008, a revival of one of Spalding Gray's performance pieces which he had seen while in college. As the title suggests, audience members are brought onto stage and interviewed, their personal stories and insights extracted in long-form conversations meant to create a sense of communal intimacy but challenge the convention of theater and story. Helm's approach differed from Gray's in that Helm's conversations were entirely extemporaneous, without any prepared questions, and the audience members were drawn at random. Helm tended to find and illuminate themes and connections within the interviews, thereby creating a through-line for each performance as it happened.
Helm wrote Le Bon Canari (Good Canary), which was produced in France in 2007, then translated into Spanish (El Buen Canario) and produced in Mexico. It was translated into English in 2016 for the Rose Theatre Kingston. Drawn from Helm's personal experiences, the play is known for its dark humor, coarse language, and views on sexism and misogyny as well as its use of Brechtian devices.
In 2015, Helm directed Culo Quasars Cocaine Chaos, which he adapted from the true story of Paul Frampton. He adapted the Epic Magazine article "The Mercenary" for Fox in 2016, collaborating with journalists Josh Davis and Josh Bearman.