Biography
Helen Scarlett O'Neill graduated BA Hons Theatre: Design for Performance from Central St Martin's College of Art and Design and is based in London. She works in two main areas; performance design and concept development/visualisation.
Her main focus and passion is to create site specific collaborative theatre projects where as many aspects as possible are mixed live reacting to live action and audience. Her first works which embraced this style, The Unfashion Shows, were created in collaboration with Russian director Pavel Rudanovsky and Japanese fashion designer Kumiko Tani between 2006 and 2008 incorporating opera, ballet, electronic and new classical components.
She also worked as a designer for pioneering site specific theatre company Punchdrunk’s production of Faust and now designs for Secret Cinema developing site specific works based on the thematic content of cult films. She further created an outdoor one hour promenade performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with director Yuko Iwata inspired by the jarring architectural line-up of London’s central north bank.
In May 2010 Helen began live art collective Fruit For The Apocalypse with Director/Producer Harry Ross to seek out new collaborations and develop Future Work.
