Conversations with artists about storytelling
Episodes
14 episodes
Shôn Dale-Jones on writing, directing & performing stories
Shôn Dale-Jones studied Drama at the University of East Anglia (UEA) before training at Ecole Jaques Lecoq in Paris. Before forming Hoipolloi with Stefanie Müller, he dabbled in stand-up and street performance - this passion for connecti...
John Biddle on music & story
John Biddle is a composer and sound designer based in Leeds. Previously, as a singer, he worked with choirs such as Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral, as well as for live broadcasts and recordings. As a baritone soloist, he ...
Becky-Dee Trevenen on designing for story
Becky-Dee is a designer, making theatre to foster empathy, learning & community. Collaboration is essential to her process to develop honest, visual storytelling & expression. Her work varies from abstract to highly d...
Paul Graham Raven on stories of the future
Paul Graham Raven is a writer & critical futures researcher, whose research is concerned with how the stories we tell about times yet to come, shape the lives we end up living. He is a writer of poetry & fictions, a ...
Liz Mytton on writing & theatre making
Liz Mytton is a coach and trainer, playwright, poet and theatre-maker. She’s fascinated by history, including that of her own family, so Jamaica features significantly in her work – ‘Red Snapper’, about Jamaican families living un...
Ann Light on storytelling to change cultures
Ann Light is a design research & interaction theorist, writing about participatory design, collaborative future-making & transformations to sustainable futures through changing cultures. Her work addresses themes of social ...
Janet Vaughan on telling stories through design
Janet Vaughan is a Designer & the Co-Artistic Director of Talking Birds, a Coventry-based company with a reputation for making gently provocative projects which explore, & seek to illuminate, the profound & comple...
Tanya Vital on evolving new forms of storytelling
Tanya Vital is a graduate of RADA & National Youth Theatre, working for 2 decades in TV, film, stage & voice-over. She has featured in many award-winning shows, including DC’s Pennyworth, Red Sparrow, Emmerdale, Casualty, B...
Rhys Jarman on Design & Storytelling
Rhys Jarman is a London based designer working in Theatre Opera & Television. His designs for Gecko Theatre include The Wedding, Institute, Missing & The Dreamer; Nassim & Time of Your Life, produced with the BBC...
Nick Walker on Writing Stories
Nick Walker is a writer, producer & director. He has written widely for radio, including 3 series of the cult sci-fi show The First King of Mars, starring Peter Capaldi & 6 series of the Nordic noir series Annika Stranded.&...
Myra Appannah on immersive storytelling
I'm interviewing a range of UK artists & creatives about how they create & work with story for a professional development project, funded by Arts Council England's DYCP.Myra Appannah is a BAFTA & Sundance nominated wr...
Nathan Curry on telling stories with meaning, honesty & realism
A great conversation with Nathan Curry, Co-Artistic Director of Tangled Feet Theatre, delving into his creative process making & directing devised & text based performance.Nathan also works as an independent theatr...
Orit Azaz on working with story
I'm interviewing a range of UK artists & creatives about how they create & work with story for a professional development project, funded by Arts Council England's DYCP.Orit Azaz is an artistic director, facilitator &...
Simon Wilkinson on the future of storytelling
I'm interviewing a range of UK artists & creatives about how they create & work with story for a professional development project, funded by Arts Council England's DYCP.Simon Wilkinson is a multi-disciplinary artist at th...