Helen Raynor (born Swansea March 1972) is a British television and theatre writer and script editor. From 2004 until 2007 she was one of the script editors of the revived version of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, working on its first three series. Her own writing work includes two stories of Doctor Who and episodes of spin-off series Torchwood, as well as Cake, a fifteen-minute television short for BBC One's Brief Encounters strand sh...
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Helen Raynor (born Swansea March 1972) is a British television and theatre writer and script editor. From 2004 until 2007 she was one of the script editors of the revived version of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, working on its first three series. Her own writing work includes two stories of Doctor Who and episodes of spin-off series Torchwood, as well as Cake, a fifteen-minute television short for BBC One's Brief Encounters strand shown in May 2006, and a sixty-minute play Running Away with the Hairdresser for BBC Radio 4, broadcast in June 2005. For the theatre she has written Waterloo Exit Two, a short play presented as part of Paines Plough's Wild Lunch season at the Young Vic in 2003.
Raynor attended Trinity Hall at Cambridge University. Her initial career was in the theatre, where she worked for eight years as a director and assistant director for the Bush Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, the Royal Opera House and Opera North. Her RSC...
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