A trainer with extensive practical and management experience in professional theatre, youth theatre and community arts settings, Helen has delivered projects in libraries, schools, and community venues. She has worked as an actor, teacher and director with young people and has developed several cross-arts projects, combining theatre, photography, digital arts and creative writing.
She was Education Director for Schools at York Theatre Royal, where she established key partnerships in order to build a community outreach programme. Subsequently she worked for CP Sheffield, where she was a Creative Agent and Evaluator. She is an Education Associate at Pilot Theatre and writes schools resource packs for Pilot, Tara Arts, the Mousetrap Foundation and several West End producers. She is currently delivering a family literacy project in a women’s prison near York.