Helen Paris is a novelist, performance maker, and Artistic Director of Curious theatre company, whose work spans fiction, live art, and interdisciplinary performance. Since 1997 she has created award-winning productions presented at venues and festivals including the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the Cultural Olympiad, Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Edinburgh Festival. The archive of Curious is housed in the British Library.
My Story
Writing
A graduate of London’s Faber Academy Helen Paris is author of the novels Lost Property and The Invisible Women’s Club, both published by Penguin. Recent honours include fellowships from Bogliasco, MacDowell, and Yaddo.
Academia
Dr. Paris was a professor at Stanford University and has held visiting professorships and residencies across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, including at Oxford University, UK, Grenoble University in the Alps and Brunel University, London, where she wrote and directed the Master’s theatre and performance program. Outside of academia, her passion for teaching and sharing her love for the arts has found its way to the families of political prisoners in Belfast, women in half-way homes in California, and LGBTQ+ communities in London.
Teaching & Mentoring
Teaching and mentoring have been central to Helen’s work for more than three decades. Across creative writing, theatre, and writing for performance, she is committed to helping writers and artists develop their voice and deepen their practice. Her students have gone on to publish their work and build careers in theatre, creative writing, and academia.
Fiction and Theatre Books
