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HELEN LEDERER |
| From Helen's early days at the famous Comedy Store, Helen has also followed on the heels of the great Julie Walters by playing Rita in Educating Rita & spending 6 months treading the boards at the Comedy Theatre, West End in Alan Bleasdale's Having a Ball. More recently, Helen has starred in The Vagina Monologues, Calendar Girls, John Mortimer's Full House & Eugene Ionesco's The Hairless Diva. |
| From cruising down the Nile for Granada TV, co-hosting Wogan, live slots at the BBC Food Show Birmingham NEC & International Wine Fair at EXCEL to presenting a Blue Peter Special or presenting strands for BBC's Heaven & Earth Show. Helen's ease with the camera & interest in people shows her adaptability & warmth - no matter what subject is thrown at her! |
| Presenting the cookery programme Butterfingers for TASTE CFN received record viewing figures as well as presenting Radio 5's Comic Cuts including interviews with fellow comics Ruby Wax & Harry Enfield. Helen is also a regular columnist for Radio 4's Woman's Hour & a fun guest on Ready Steady Cook with slots at the BBC Food Show with chefs including Nick Nairn. Helen has also presented a series of musical concerts at the Wigmore Hall for young people. |
| Having established herself as one of Britain's best-known writer/comediennes in the 80s, Helen was soon commissioned by Hodder & Stoughton to write Single Minding & later by Penguin to write her first novel. |
| Several commissions for BBC Radio & a commission for BBC TV to write a sitcom, sits well with her regular articles in The Independent on Sunday, The Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, SHE magazine, Good Housekeeping, Woman & Home, EVE & many others. |
| Helen is also a regular reviewer on BBC's Open Book programme & YOU magazine's Book Club as well as having a regular column on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Her short stories have been published in the Daily Express & Girls Night In (Harper Collins). "The rewards of brazen honesty are divinely witty epigrams & Lederer's script is positively dripping with them." |
For more information on Helen Lederer, Contact Arena. Tel: 0113-239-2222 |