My core creative activity is as a performance storyteller.

Starting mostly from traditional stories – folktales, legends and myths found in collections old and new – I compose and choreograph, shape and stretch until each story is a new piece, living and breathing in a different way. Then I start to tell the story to people, and it changes some more. Each performance is slightly different – alive and exciting.

Different stories suit different settings and different audiences. I have performances that were created especially for schools, others for arts festivals. For family audiences and street performance I like to work with improvised tales, where storyteller and audience work together to make the story.

And stories make a great centre for projects – which can go off in many different directions depending on the time available. Its particularly exciting when there is a chance to blend storytelling and the ideas involved in games design and interactive theatre.

See the Shows and Projects pages for more information, or look over my CV of Creative Work.