Helena Kaut-Howson

[1] Her training as a director was first at the Polish State Theatre School and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

[3] She had to leave Poland after marrying a British man who was the son of an admiral working for NATO, and came to the United Kingdom then.

[3] Other work as director outside the UK includes at Monument-National in Canada and the Gate Theatre in Dublin.

[3] She has also worked with Scena Polska UK at the Polish Social and Cultural Association in London.

[7] There was disagreement between Kaut-Howson and the theatre management about her production of The Miser at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in 2009.