Helen Oakleigh's Writing CV

The CV below details my work that has been performed in the last ten years. There is a mix of short and full length productions.

Many of the plays are performed annually and include Seaside Box, Training for the Beach, Nurse Aid, On the Run, Monster of the Mine and many more including new for 2009- a shortened version of Dicken's "A Christmas Carol". Visitors to the event range from 24,000- 30,000 each year. VISIT THIS SITE FOR FULL DETAILS OF PROGRAMME AND HOW TO BUY TICKETS

 Helen's full length play "Friends For Life" was on July/ August 2008 at Millfield Theatre, London.

Helen Oakeigh has studied writing at RADA with Stephen Jeffries after RADA (Royal Acadamy of Dramatic Art) read a copy of "Friends for Life" and offered her a free place as part of the Sara Sugarman bursaries.

As a writer Helens work was first performed in 1987 after winning a song writing competition. The song was performed by over two hundred as part of a huge concert. Since then Helen continued to write, in most genres going! Her poetry was recognised in the late 1990's when she was first published in an anthology of poetry entitled "A Quiet Storm". This was soon followed by Helen getting her own column in "Maidstone Magazine", a monthly magazine which had a distribution of 64, 000 households across Maidstone and the surrounding area. She went on to study creative writing as part of her degree course and a number of her plays were performed at the university. Since then she has written a full length plays and films (click on watch films to view) in addition to working as script supervisor on films. Read below for more details.

 

Performed Play Scripts

 Play Title  Venue Performed  Director  Year  Notes
 Victorian Shorts
  Festival of Christmas, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
  Richard Stride

 2008/ 2009

 A series of short plays were performed at the festival which recieved over twenty-four thousand visitors in just threee days! http://www.christmasfestival.co.uk/
 Friends for Life
  Millfield Theatre, London
  Helen Oakleigh
  2008   This play was performed in August 2008 at The Millfield Theatre. A full legnth play about two fifteen year old girls and deals with paedophilia, street crime and the court case that surrounds them.
  Cinderella  SHHS Theatre, Hampstead, London   Helen Oakleigh  2007  Drama school shortened version of the classic tale adapted by Helen Oakleigh.
 1664  Chichester Festival Theatre  Michael Shannon  2002

 Commision based on poets during English Civil War.
 Schools Out  Mayfield School Theatre  Helen Oakleigh  2002  Children's musical (all narrative, lyrics and music written by Helen Oakleigh).
 Hey Dollface!  Wiltshire Studio  Helen Oakleigh 2001   Comedy set in a toy box exploring childrens misconcieved view of pop stars.
 Talent  Mayfield School Theatre  Helen Oakleigh  2001  Children's play based around real lives and stories.
 Driver  Wiltshire Studio  Suzi Marsh  2001  Based around two brothers and the effects of violence.
 The Rolling Pin  Wiltshire Studio  Ben Stevens  2000  Surreal/ naughty comedy based in an office.
 Perfect match Wiltshire Studio  Russell Halford  1999  Surreal comedy about dating set in  womb!


Film

Helen is currently on pre-production on a feature film she has written to be shot next year with a working title of "Parallel Worlds". More news to follow...

In November 2006 a short film Helen wrote based on A Midsummer Night's Dream was filmed. It was called A Midsummer Nightmare and based on the characters of Titania, Oberon and the Indian boy. This is availble to view for free either by clicking on the watch films page or by going to,  http://newmedia.ndtc.org/wayne/video_films.html

 

 Still from shoot of "A Midsummer Nightmare"

Richard Stride in the role of Oberon (pictured).

 

 

 

 

 

In 2002/ 2003 "Roundabout" was produced. Written by Helen Oakleigh dealing with social issues such as teenage pregnancy. World premier was on Friday 6th May 2005 as part of "tHE eND oF tHE pIER iNTERNATIONAL fILM fESTIVAL". It was competing against films from around the world for "Best Short Drama Award". See gallery for pictures and shopping cart to buy a copy.

Poetry

Published poetry includes "Lost" as part of the anthology titled "A Quiet Storm" 1999. Poem about loosing someone you love.

Magazine

Helen currently writes for http://www.uktheatre.net/ . Visit the website to read reviews by Helen and other authors.

Helen had her own column in Maidstone Magazine 1998-1999. Full page column reporting on the night life and local events in and around Maidstone. Focused on night clubs. Distribution to 64,000 households.

General

Above is examples of work either performed or published. However Helen is always working on new narratives and is currently focusing on scripts. She has a number of completed plays and film scripts and of course a number of working scripts. Helen also works as a script supervisor on films. For information or to contact Helen please email helenoakleigh@hotmail.com