Helen Cooper

HELEN COOPER (writer/dramaturge) of Dutch/Welsh parentage.

PLAYS: Mrs. Gauguin, dir by Mike Bradwell: (Almeida Theatre, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Ghent); Mrs. Vershinin, dir by Mike Bradwell: Riverside Studios, The Tramway Glasgow and Hamburg; The House of Ruby Moon/Riverside Studios; Three Women and a Piano Tuner, directed by Sam West, Chichester and Hampstead Theatre, nominated for Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

SCREENPLAYS: Miss Julie dir by Mike Figgis, short film Station, dir by Jackie Oudney. (BAFTA nomination)

BBC RADIO PLAYS: Mothers at the Gate, Hedda Gabler and A9 with David Warner playing the anarchist, all directed by Eoin O’Callaghan.

TRANSLATIONS: Miss Julie for Greenwich Theatre, Hedda Gabler for Chichester Theatre, Don Giovanni for Scottish Opera directed by Tom Cairns.

WORK AS DRAMATURGE La Boheme, Stuttgard Opera House/ Prima Donna by Rufus Wainwright, directed by Antony MacDonald for The Manchester Festival, The Ring Cycle, dir. by Antony MacDonald for Reisopera, Lohengrin for Welsh National Opera and Warsaw, directed by Antony McDonald.

COLLABORATION on the dance piece This is the Picture with Aletta Collins.

ORIGINAL LIBRETTI: Rhiannon’s Song for Opera W11, composed by Mark Bowden/ 25 Brook Street, commissioned by Handel House, composer Mark Bowden.

Work as an actress: THEATRE; Still Crazy After All These Years” dir by Mike Bradwell; Secret Gardens” dir by Tim Albery; I've Been Running” dir by Terry Johnson; “Room” Royal Court, by Natasha Morgan, The Warp” dir by Ken Campbell; Viola in 'Twelfth Night' Regents Park,' Venice Preserved' dir by Tim Albery; 'Uncle Vanya' dir by Tom Cairns (Sheffield) Hermione in 'A Winter's Tale' opposite Jim Broadbent dir by Steven Pimlott; Olivia in 'Twelfth Night' dir by Steven Pimlott; Celia 'As You Like It' with Fiona Shaw dir by Tim Albery. (Old Vic).

TELEVISION:” Games without Frontiers” dir by Mike Bradwell BBC, “Darling Buds of May” ITV, “Soldier Soldier” BBC,

FILM:  Dutch Woman in Mr Turner by Mike Leigh.