Helen Percival

Accents: Standard English, London, Estuary, Southern Irish

Languages: French (confident conversation), Italian (basic)

Singing: soprano

Sports: yoga (intermediate), swimming (advanced), synchronised swimmer (basic)

Other: over 10 years experience working as a broadcast journalist in London and Paris, presenting live TV news and radio bulletins and doing voice-overs for news reports, creative painting, spoken word poet (highly experienced)

UK driving licence

Projects at RADA
Protagonist, My Boy You Should, written, devised and performed by Harun Ćehović, Matthias Moret, Helen Percival, Victoria Sasso-Briggs (part of Lab Works)

Phoebe, This is highly unusual, dir. Billy Barrett

Swiss Cheese, Mother Courage and Her Children, dir. Lesley Ewen

Presenter Clown, 'Tis Pity it’s a Bloodfest, dir. Peta Lily

Strong, Prometheus Bound, dir. Ian Morgan

Olga, Three Sisters, dir. Robert Fried

Theatre
Becky, Biting Point (R&D), dir. Marcus Bazley, Salisbury Playhouse

Poet, Art from the Heart, dir. Heather Ward, Southwark Playhouse

Sophie, Type On Paper, dir. Tallulah Sheffield, The Tabard

Mrs Allen, Northanger Abbey (tour), dir. Marcus Bazley, Cyphers Theatre Company

Poet, Glass Half Full Theatre, dir. Steph Silver, Arcola Theatre

Heather, Communicate (tour), dir. Marcus Bazley, Sheepish Productions

Hillary Clinton, Hillary’s Kitchen, dir. Emily McDermott, Cambridge Road Players

Nell Gwynn, Pretty Witty Nell (R&D), The Rogue Shakespeare Company

Mary Warren, The Crucible, dir. Brendan Jones, Workhouse Theatre

Sally, Cleo, Camping, dirs. Emmanuelle and Dick, Workhouse Theatre

Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, dir. Paul Caister, Workhouse Theatre

Television
Martha Gellhorn, Secret History of WW2, dir. Rae Sands, Channel 5

Education / Training
Two year actor training programme, The Poor School

Musical Theatre post-grad diploma (passed with distinction), City Lit

Awards
Spotlight Prize nominee (2017)