Spotlight on Helen Tennison

Helen Tennison is a multi award-winning director, dramaturg and theatre-maker working internationally across theatre genres including new writing, devising, Shakespeare, classics and performance art. She has directed for number one venues including Yvonne Arnaud Guildford and small to mid scale venues. She specialises in site-responsive performance.

Her Arts Council funded solo show, Doggerland, toured internationally and was nominated for Best Show of the Festival STOFF (Stockholm) and also appeared twice at our very own LIONHOUSE venue. She’s currently developing her next solo show, Miss Haversham’s Clothes Swap, with the support of Stanley Arts and AOD Actors of Dionysus. The show performs on 19th and 20th May as part of our LIONHOUSE programme at Brighton Fringe.

Helen has worked as a director, writer and/or dramaturg on well over 10 solo shows, mentoring theatremakers through their creative journey.Recent projects include Mrs Dalloway for the London Library, Royal Society of Literature and Creation Theatre.

She regularly runs Performance workshops and Solo Show labs, that come highly recommended by our artistic director, Tamsin Shasha who has participated many times. But don’t take Tamsin’s word for it – just read all of the other testimonials on her site.

She directed Fringe First winning Everything I See I Swallow for Shasha & Taylor’s production at Summerhall and on tour in 2019, conceived and co-devised by Tamsin.

She is also one of Trustees!

Aren’t we lucky?!