 
Helena
Bell
Artistic Director
Liz Landon
Associate Director
Grant Watson
Associate Director
Oladipo Agboluaje
Associate Artist
Rukhsana Ahmad
Playwright
Odiri Ighambre-Aiken
Associate Artist
Jo Turner
Administrator
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about
us
the
company
Based at Farnham
Maltings, Pursued by a Bear is a unique presence in the South East,
commissioning, creating and touring professional theatre productions,
producing documentary films on our estates, and in our old people’s
homes, young people’s participatory theatre at the Maltings and
Nigerian story-telling in our schools.
We
seek to stimulate and surprise, excite and provoke, introducing our audiences
to the often unheard and marginalised voices of our communities. We offer
an opportunity to come together to create a rich, socially inclusive mix
- where difference is the source of celebration. We draw from all ages
and all culturally diverse backgrounds.
“Intelligent, accomplished and ambitious” The Guardian
Read
about the history of the company here
helena
bell
Pursued by a Bear’s new Artistic
Director Helena Bell 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). Helena
is now looking forward to directing Footprints in the Sand which
will be her inaugural production for PBAB.
the
board
We
are proud to be supported by a group of outstanding industry professionals:
Thomas
Kell – Chair of Board & Administrative Director of Tiata Fahodzi
Theatre Company, London.
Tuhina Ahmed - Administrator of Vayu Naidu Company.
Elizabeth
Bagnall – Chair of Farnham Art and Design Education Group.
Katherine
Ives – General Manager of Lauderdale House, London and Producer of Trilby Productions.
Deb
Mullins – Artistic Director of Emergency Exit Arts, London.
Roy
Williams – Internationally acclaimed British Playwright.
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Helena
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