Pursued by a Bear Productions was formed in 1998 by director Stuart Mullins and RSC actor Joseph Millson and quickly established a reputation for delivering exciting, cutting edge, new writing productions. In 2005 PBAB moved from Greenwich, London to become a resident company at Farnham Maltings and Alex Clifton joined PBAB as the New Artistic Director, succeeded in 2006 by Helena Bell with Grant Watson as associate director for film.