Helen Keen won the first Channel 4 New Comedy Writing Award in 2005, only a year after she began to write comedy.

She was a regular writer and performer on experimental BBC Radio 1 comedy show The Milk Run in 2004/2005, and with her writing partner Miriam Underhill has contributed topical jokes and sketches to flagship comedy series such as The Friday Night Project on Channel 4 and The Now Show on BBC Radio 4.

At the Buxton Festival Fringe Awards in July 2008, Helen's first full-length stage show It Is Rocket Science! received a Best Show award nomination and Helen won the Best Individual Performer award.

Keen and Underhill have also written for a host of other shows and pilots for TV and radio. They are currently developing programmes with BBC3 and are writing two sitcom pilot scripts commissioned by Channel 4.


As a solo stand-up, Helen Keen was a finalist in the 2005 Funny Women competition. She went on to be a finalist in Hackney Empire's prestigious New Act of the Year competition and was nominated for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year title.

In 2007, she performed with Jo Brand, Richard Herring, Simon Munnery etc in the second annual tribute to the late 'godfather of alternative comedy' Malcolm HardeeIt

Helen performed It Is Rocket Science! daily throughout the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe.

FOUR STARS "Quirky... wonderful imagination... hilarious" (Three Weeks)

"Funny and distinctive"
(Chortle)

"Ready wit"
(The Times)