Helen is the artistic director of Pale Mother Theatre Company, which was founded in 1996. She has directed the company's previous productions, namely Fear & Misery of the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht, performed at the Crypt Arts Centre and Goethe Institut in 1996, The Mother also by Bertolt Brecht – Dublin Writers Museum 1997, and Snakeskin by Slobodan Snadjer – Crypt Arts Centre 1997. Helen has also scripted historical re-enactments as part of the 1798 programme at The Glencree Centre for Reconciliation and in Newcastle, Co. Wicklow. Work on The Good Room is dedicated to Junior.