pursued by a bear productions
Helena Bell
Artistic Director
Grant Watson
Associate Director (Film) Oladipo Agboluaje Associate Playwright
Jo Turner
Administrator
about us
helena bell - artistic director
Helena has over forty new plays to her credit, most of them British premieres first developed through workshop and rehearsed reading. For ten years she was Artistic Director of Alarmist Theatre in Brighton, the first British theatre company to tour the post-glasnost Soviet Union in her critically acclaimed production of Mayakovsky’s The Bedbug – “startling theatricality…superbly played….excellent” The Guardian. Alarmist toured new writing throughout Britain including four successful years at The Edinburgh Festival and concluded with Fossil Woman by Louise Warren (awarded a Time Out Critic’s Choice) and a transfer to the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. On completion of an Arts Council Directing Bursary, Helena worked nationally as a freelance director and dramaturg, working closely with Kali Theatre for whom she has directed a number of national touring productions including Love Comes in at the Window (Oval House) and River on Fire by Rukhsana Ahmad (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith). In 2008 Helena directed Footprints in the Sand, her inaugural production for PBAB.
the company
Based at Farnham Maltings in Surrey, Pursued by a Bear has a ten year history of nurturing, developing and commissioning new writing which tours to theatres and arts centres in London and throughout the South East. We also make art house film shorts and have a substantial track record in creating and delivering community films, new writing workshops, and more recently - new writing awards.
the board
Thomas Kell – Chair of Board & Administrative Director of Tiata Fahodzi Theatre Company, London.
Tuhina Ahmed - Administrator of Chain Reaction Theatre Company.
Katherine Ives – General Manager of Lauderdale House, London and Producer of Trilby Productions.
Roy Williams O.B.E. – Internationally acclaimed British Playwright.
