FILMOGRAPHY
A Miscreant Gnome & Other Charlatans
Written and performed by Raymond Helkio and Peter Lynch.
Nowmad Film Festival, Official selection, November 2023
The Twilight Fairy Garden
Queer Pride, June 2020
Lake Of Bays Edition, July 2020
Six Feet Away
Director, April 2020
Quarantine Film Challenge official selection
From Tanzania, With Love
Director, January 2020
Official Selection, RealOut Queer Film & Video Festival, February 2022
Available through the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
She Don’t Go Like That
Director, January 2019
Hamlet In A Hot Tub (The Film)
Director, 2018
Film premiere, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
You Love That I’m Not Your Wife
Video projections, public relations, cast, November 3-18, 2017
The Players Theatre, New York
Cracking The Case Of The Golden Purse
Producers, Raymond Helkio, Paul Bellini, David Bateman, 2016
Commissioned by RT Collective, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Inside Out LGBT Film Festival
Official Selection of the New York Mobile Film Festival, 2018
Lost & Found On The Q Train
Director, 2016. Commissioned by RT Collective, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Inside Out LGBT Film Festival in 2015
Official selection of the New York Mobile Film Festival, 2018
Behind The Seams (Featuring Shirley U. Jest)
Producer, director, web series, 2016
WERK. FIERCE. OVAH. AVIANCE!
Director, 2015
Official screening selection of the East Village Queer Film Festival, 2018
When The Bullying Ends (Being Enza Anderson)
Director, 2015
Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival, Honourable Mentions, 2016 Available through the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
My Sex Is Genderless
Director, 2013
Commissioned by RT Collective, Toronto Inside Out LGBT Film Festival and the Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
The Wall Between Us
Director, 2013
Nobody Knows Freedom
Featuring Donnarama
Director, 2014
An Evening With The Impostors
Director, 2014
Toronto Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, TIFF Bell Lightbox, OUTtv Post-Production Fund award, Nominated “Emerging Canadian Filmmaker To Watch”
Available through the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Kijiji Connections
Director, 2014
RT Collective, Toronto Inside Out LGBT Film Festival
Queer Russian Cabaret
Filmmaker, 2014
Death Of A Bathhouse
Producer/director, 2013
Chicago Fetish Film Forum Festival (2024)
Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival (2016)
Regina Queer City Cinema Film Festival (2015)
Inside Out Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, TIFF Bell Lightbox (2013)
Queering Spaces: Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives (2015)
Available through the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
WorldPride Human Rights Conference
Official videographer, 2014
40+ community activist and leader interviews
THEATRE & FILM CREDITS
Outer Haven VI hosted by Paul Edward Costa featuring Raymond Helkio and Nadia Zaman. May 2024
A Miscreant Gnome & Other Charlatans
Written and performed by Raymond Helkio and Peter Lynch.
Commissioned for QueerCab, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 2023
Nightmare (The Movie), A Paul Bellini film
Played an actor auditioning for a role in a horror film
Actor, August 2023
A Miscreant Gnome & Other Charlatans
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
Writer, Performer, Filmmaker
Official programming for QueerCab
April 12, 2023
Poetry Open Mic
Host, February 2023 to present
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
Untitled 2
Virtual event
Co-host, April 2022
Spoken word, performance & poetry
Untitled
Co-host, January 2022
Spoken word, performance & poetry
The Balcony
Today Is The Day After Yesterday
Writer, actor, March 2021
The Twilight Fairy Garden
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre Queer Pride, June 2020
Lake Of Bays Edition, July 2020
The Rainbow Lounge
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
Producer, Raymond Helkio, June 2019
Musings From The Bunker
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
Video projections, June 2019, October 2018, May 2018
You Love That I’m Not Your Wife
The Players Theatre, New York
Video projections, 2017
What’s It Like?
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, Rhubarb Launch Party ?Director, 2017
RAID: Operation Soap?Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, QueerPride Festival
Writer/Director, Raymond Helkio, David Bateman, 2016
Sold out performance.
Hamlet In A Hot Tub
Fourteen performances including Rhubarb Festival, Peterborough Pride, Glad Day Bookshop, The 519 Community Centre, Nuit Rose Closing Ceremonies.
Director, Raymond Helkio, 2015
Pulp Lounge
Church Street at The 519, WorldPride Nuit Rose Festival
Producer, 2014
Sold-out performance.
Coming Out Queer
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
Producer/director, 2015
Published Works
Mel Bender’s The Anatomy of Depression
Zine review for the summer edition of Broken Pencil Magazine, June 2024.
Provocations Poetry & Prose
Spoken Word & Animation, September 2022
Face Mask
Poemdemic, Secret Handshake Books, contributing poet, June 2022
Poemdemic, live reading over Zoom, September 2022
Brick & Skipper
Play, 2022
Dead Flowers (Are Beautiful Too)
Photobook & Prose, 2021
Moments In Time
Zine, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 2021
LEDUC: A Public Life of Solitude
Play, released 2019
The Toolbox Killer
Podcast, Writer/Producer, 2018
RAID: Operation Soap
Play, released 2017
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Fuck You
Collection, released 2016
The Great Meeting Room
Children’s book released in 2015 and 2011
God Is In The Wormholes
Released 2014
My Gay Toronto
Contributing Editor
theBUZZ
Columnist
PinkPlay Magazines
Features Columnist
The Reading Salon
Theatre Reviewer
Film Producer
Public Works & Exhibitions
Artscape
Art Gallery of Ontario
Balaclava.Q
Design Exchange
10×10
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
The ArQuives
Nuit Rose
John B. Aird Gallery
Glad Day Bookshop
Videofag
Longboard Living
Teaching
Zine Factory
February 2022
Workman Arts
In this four-week class, you’ll have an opportunity to connect with your creative intuition through idea-generating exercises paired with hands-on learning. Every class you’ll finish with a completed zine. No experience necessary.
Pocket Zine Workshop
December 2021
Workman Arts
A 30-minute workshop where students folded, cut and created content for their own zine. Part of Workman Arts holiday membership meeting.
The Making Of A Zine
October 2021
Workman Arts
During this four-week hands-on course, we covered Idea Generation, Content Collection, Production, and Distribution. Students were challenged to create zines that would serve as platforms for self-discovery, community building, and/or collective activism. Each participant left the course having completed at least one zine
Media Studies
March 2021
The Bishop Strachan School
Over the course of three weeks, students developed a creative brief leading to the production of a Public Service Announcement which were disseminated through social media. Students were not graded on their PSA’s popularity but instead but they learnt from the process.
Select Design Projects
AIDS Committee of Toronto
AMREF
Canstruction
Dignity Network Canada
Environmental Defence
Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance
K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation
Lewis + Company
LGBT+ Giving Network
Male Call Canada
Mouth Congress (Kids In The Hall)
Ontarians For The Arts
Project Seahorse
Queer Arts Summit
The ArQuives
WorldPride Human Rights Conference
Education and Affiliations
League of Canadian Poets
Member since September, 2022
Second City
Stand-up, level 1, April 2021
Live online Stand-Up performance of “Babies Are Stupid”
Toronto
Upright Citizens Brigade
Graduating Class, Improv 101, 2018
Live Improve performance on December 19, 2018
UCB Theatre, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC
Trinity Square Video
Guerrilla Video Production, 1997
Ontario College of Art & Design
Communication & Design, Advertising
Alumnus, 2000
Photo of Raymond Helkio by George O. Dewitte
Reprinted by 10×10 Portraits, 2015
