Helen Watts

Region: South West (Wessex)

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Helen is a writer, director and story consultant with a particular interest in historical drama and musicals. Adaptations for stage include Persuasion, Far From The Madding Crowd, Northanger Abbey, Under The Greenwood Tree, Frankenstein: The Year Without A Summer and A Christmas Carol. Book writing commissions include Lysistrata (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (National Youth Music Theatre) Mrs Beeton Says… (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School) and Love is Not A Science (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama).

Helen is published and licensed by Samuel French (Concord Theatricals) and from 2006-2021 was artistic director at The Dorset Corset Theatre Company. She is currently a freelance writer and story consultant for Pendragon Works.

Helen is managed by Alexia Melocchi in L.A. and was commissioned by Little Studio Films to write the pilot for The Monkey Club

Through Pendragon Works she is script editor for the following feature films currently in development Dry Stone by James Cawood, The Many by Wyl Menmuir (adapted by Greg Strong) and The Time Child Saga by Stuart Rowson.

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Animation

Film

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Theatre

Writer's credits

2024 The Monkey Club (series pilot – Little Studio Films)

2018 Mrs Beeton Says… (BOVTS)

2018 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (NYMT)

2016 Love is Not A Science (RCSSD)

2015 Lysistrata (RCSSD)

2014 A Christmas Carol (The Shelley Theatre/Dorset Corset Theatre Company)

2014 Persuasion (Arts University Bournemouth)

2010 The Year Without a Summer (Frankenstein) DCTC South West Tour

2009 Under The Greenwood Tree (DCTC South West Tour)

2008 Northanger Abbey (DCTC South West Tour)

2007 Far From The Madding Crowd (DCTC South West Tour)

2006 Persuasion (DCTC South West Tour)

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