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.
grant watson - associate director
Grant is a Writer and Film Maker. He trained on the MA in Theatre Arts at Essex University. His Stage Plays include Food (Lyric Studio, Hammersmith), Nativity (Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff), Rubberneck (Mercury Theatre, Colchester & Celtic Lodge - Edinburgh Fringe Festival), The Orchard Skins (Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex) and The Last Line of Defence (Farnham Maltings). Since 2000, Grant has worked as a television script writer for Family Affairs (Channel 5), Doctors and Holby City (BBC1). As a freelance film maker he has made films for various organisations including Harper Collins, Creative Communities and Waverley Borough Council.
Jo Turner - administrator
Jo has worked in marketing for the voluntary sector for over ten years, most recently as marketing manager for Cancer Research UK.
the board
Thomas Kell – Chair of Board jdkjsdkjkddddddddddd & & Administrative Director of Tiata Fahodzi Theatre
Katherine Ives – General Manager of Lauderdale House, London & Producer of Trilby Productions Rebecca Tovey - Royal Academy of Dance Julia Hulia Julia Tymukas - Executive Director - Emergency Exit Arts
Roy Williams O.B.E. – Internationally acclaimed British Playwright
