Workshops & Storytelling

Facilitating workshops in a variety of subjects.
Storytelling in English and French.
Encouraging all ages to interact, have fun and explore a topic!

Since 2015 I have been creating and leading workshops and interactive story events for schools, young people, families, university students, people with additional learning needs and community groups of all ages.

I have lots of experience working with groups of new people for one-off workshops, as well as running regular sessions over many years as a group's skills and interests evolve!

I am the lead writer and creator of shows and workshops for young audiences with Rock Paper Scissors collective working mainly in France, and have worked extensively with Freshwater Theatre and Handprint Theatre in the UK.

"Students were actively involved and participated with confidence" - Croxley Danes School

Some organisations I have worked with:

Handprint Theatre, Freshwater Theatre, PH Heidelberg university, University of the Arts Bournemouth, Drama Arts Productions, Body & Soul Charity, Elizabeth Samuels Drama School, ARTEDNET, Rock Paper Scissors Theatre, Discover Story Centre, Kyiv Street Theatre collective, Miri International Schools Borneo.

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Handprint Theatre

Interactive story performances and arts and craft workshops
Devising, performing and facilitating.

From 2017 I have worked in a team on numerous projects with Handprint Theatre including:

Yearly 'Caritas' project with Newham Schools using interactive performance and drama & craft workshops to explore a given PSHE theme with KS1.
Workshop series as part of 'Mighty Mega' at Discovery Story Centre, London, designing and facilitating drama and art sessions with young people with additional needs, their families and important adults.
One-off workshops in mainstream and Special Educational Needs schools to explore different topics.

Rock Paper Scissors theatre

Facilitating workshops and bilingual interactive storytelling.

'To The Forest' Storytelling sessions with Early Years & KS1 where I facilitated children ages 3-7 to tell their own stories and then stage them as a class group, inspired by a box of mysterious natural objects. Based on the Storytelling Early Years methodology of Vivien Gussin Paley.
Interactive story performances in English and French for young learners of English in french schools (ages 7-11)

"All the pupils loved it! ... Perfectly adapted to the children." - École de Dennevy

Elizabeth Samuels Drama

Regular drama club sessions for ages 4-13.
Directing 'show in a week' school holiday activities for ages 4-11.

Freshwater Theatre

Workshops in schools for ages 3-13 using drama to bring life to different areas of the curriculum.
Interactive storytelling in English and French.

PH University Heidelberg

2-day puppetry workshop and project teaching

From 2021 I have been asked back several times to work with the drama department at PH Heidelberg :

Working on acting and text for English Language productions.
Running a puppetry workshop for students
Puppet making and direction.

Kyiv Street Theatre

Outdoor performance and devising support

I worked on outdoor performance and devising skills with this talented team of academics and theatre professionals to put together their first piece of street theatre with local children.
'Tiger is Coming' was performed in Kontraktova Sq, Kyiv, in February 2022.

"Not having an ego was really releiving, I didn't feel any pressure"
"Being able to play like a child is not gone!"
- PH Students