Helen Paris is the artistic director of Curious performance company. Curious has presented at venues and festivals such as the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the Sydney Opera House, the International Festival of Women’s Theatre in Taipei, PS122 in New York, and the Edinburgh Festival. An archive of Curious works is housed in The British Library in London.
Paris’s work has been generously supported by organizations such as The Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Paris; The British Council, China; Arts Council, London; and the Wellcome Trust Science Foundation. Her awards and fellowships include the Woods Institute for the Environment Venture Award, Stanford University; GATES Distinguished Fellowship at La Maison de Creation et de L’ Innovation, Grenoble; and the Bogliasco Theatre Fellowship, Italy. Paris is represented by Greene & Heaton literary agency, London and her novels are published by Penguin.
At MacDowell, Paris explored ‘touch hunger’ and worked with touch and tactile memory to develop an autobiological devised performance script. She also completed her third novel, the moment I saw you I knew I could love you.
