Helena Smee - c.v. Hands Up Puppets Nottingham  contact I am a Children’s television scriptwriter, currently writing scripts for animation series. I have created and produced Children’s television programming. I am a professional Puppeteer and Puppet Maker. Qualifications. 10 GCSE ‘O’ levels. 1 ‘A’ level. St. Martins School of Art. Professional Memberships British Actors Equity. The Writers Guild of Great Britain. PRS. ALCS. Screen Actors Guild USA. Children's Television Series Created and Co-created: ∑ The Softies                        80 x 5 min eps        Created for Five       ∑ Beachcomber Bay                  90 x 24 min eps        Co-created for Five           ∑ Sandy and Mr. Flapper           26 x 5 min eps        Co-created for Five           ∑ Tickle, Patch and Friends       11  Series            Co-created for Five            Children's Animation Series Scriptwriting Credits: ∑  Bottle Top Bill                         6 x 11 min eps    Southern Star Entertainment ∑  The Beeps                              9 x 11 min eps    Impossible TV ∑  Angels of Jarm                       9 x 7 min eps        Impossible TV ∑  The Milky and Shake Show 10 x 2 min eps    Kerrupt TV ∑  Castle Farm                             6 x 7 min eps     Impossible TV Children's Puppet Series Scriptwriting Credits Include: ∑ Tickle, Patch & Friends           120 episodes (including 60 x 2 min sketches) ∑ Sandy and Mr Flapper             4 x 5 min eps ∑ The softies                               14 x 5 min eps ∑ Milkshake Monkey                  15 x 3 min eps Puppeteer credits include: ∑ The Milkshake show                    Five ∑  Smarteenies                               Cbeebies ∑ Milkshake Monkey                      Five ∑  Dappledown Farm                      Five & TVAM ∑  Playbox                                        Citv ∑  Dotty and Buzz                          C4 education ∑  A House That's Just Like Yours    Five ∑  The Softies                                  Five ∑  Tickle, Patch & Friends              Five - 11 series ∑  Top Banana                                 Five ∑  The Great Bong                          Citv ∑  Big Bag                                         Citv ∑  Sandy and Mr Flapper                Five ∑  The Slow Norris                           Citv ∑  Havakazoo                                   Five ∑  The Children's Channel & TCC - all on-air continuity from 1993-1995 including:          Ike & Webber, Ratkan Zoo, Ratkan Live, Droibee Time. Children’s Theatre Play-writing: Dreamtime with Roo    Funded by The Arts Council & REEP. Feature Films: A Muppets Treasure Island.  10th Kingdom.  Real Time Animation: I spent 8 months in Hollywood writing scripts for Medialab and Canal+ CG RTA presentations, as well as Performing RTA CG Characters for many Hollywood Studio presentations and working on the resulting productions for NBC and Fox Studios Beverly Hills. I have written, presented and performed similar presentations in Osaka, Amsterdam, New Orleans, Orlando and Hamburg. T.V. Puppet Maker credits: I am one half of 'Hands up Puppets'. www.handsuppuppets.com. Formed in 1989 with my partner, Marcus Clarke, we have designed and created over 60 Puppets, appearing in as many Children's Television Series over 20 years. Other Media I am a Director of the Media Production Company Hands Up Productions Ltd. Teaching Experience Teaching EEC Euroform funded ‘lesser language initiative’. I helped to devise a course and teach T.V Puppetry to a mixed age group of Gaelic speakers over a 16 week period. This resulted in the students successfully performing in an award-winning Gaelic TV series that aired on Eire and British Gaelic TV Services. Teaching Real-Time Animation in the USA and Japan I taught a mixed age group of primarily ‘Muppet’ Puppeteers to perform the Medialab France computer animation system in Los Angeles over a 16 week period. Also, a shorter course in Tokyo, Japan.