Born in Figueres in 1973, Helena Tornero Brugués took her diploma in Tourism from the University of Girona. She then lived and worked in Germany, Belgium, England and Russia and on a cruise ship before devoting himself to the theatre. 
Having graduated in direction and dramaturgy from the Theatre Institute, she studied playwriting with Toni Cabré, Carles Batlle, Sergi Belbel, Enzo Cormann, José Sanchis Sinisterra, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Rafael Spregelburd, amongst others. 

Her plays include El Vals de la Garrafa (Joan Santamaria Prize), Les Madames, Babybird (shortlisted for the Romea Prizes), Submergir-se en l’aigua (SGAE Prize), Suplicants, De música i d’homes, Apatxes (14 d’Abril Prize), You’re pretty and I’m drunk, Vull tornar-te a veure, De-sideris (looking for happiness), Sota l’ombra d’un bell arbre and No parlis amb estranys (fragments de memòria). She has also written a children’s novel, El lladre de llibres. 

Helena Tornero Brugués has worked as an assistant director at the Teatre Lliure, the TNC, the Cia. Senza Tempo and the Teatre Tantarantana. Recently, she directed No parlis amb estranys (fragments de memòria) at the TNC. As a scriptwriter, she has worked on the TV3 series Ventdelplà and as a translator at international symposia at L’Obrador de la Sala Beckett and Theatre Institute. She currently also works as a teacher of theory and dramaturgy at the Theatre College, Eòlia and L’Obrador de la Sala Beckett. In 2010-2011, she worked as a playwright with a group of young actors at the Teatre de Ponent in Granollers. The result of this work process was the play De-sideris (looking for happiness), which received a national award in the professional category of the Buero Vallejo Prizes.

Biography written in 2013