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 she co-wrote, “Gents Can’t Measure”, had its premiere in May 2026 at East Village Basement as part of Fiasco Theater’s Groundwork Initiative.