Helen Romeu Coombes is a bilingual Spanish-British actor, writer, and teaching artist born and raised in Madrid, Spain, currently based in New York. Shaped by both British and American theater traditions, she is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York and earned her BA in Drama at the University of Exeter in the UK. She is also a proud alumna of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. She has worked professionally on stage and on screen in Spain, the UK, and the US. 

The play Gents Can’t Measure, which she co-wrote, premiered in May 2026 at East Village Basement as part of Fiasco Theater’s Groundwork Initiative.