I am lucky to work with more fantastic clients and organisations than I can list!
Here are a few highlights.
Museums and Heritage: British Museum, British Library, Science Museum, Southbank Centre, National Portrait Gallery, V&A Kensington, V&A East, The Globe, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace, Design Museum, London Guildhall, London Museum, National Maritime Museum, National Trust (various), The Royal Parks, London Transport Museum, Garden Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Barbican Centre, Lauderdale House, Kew Gardens, Museum of the Home, Royal College of Physicians, and MANY more.
Academic: University College London (UCL): Provost award-winning public engagement project. Educational stories about medicine for medical students the Royal Free Hospital. Year long project “Beyond Notability” with the School of Advanced Study (University of London). Events with Royal College of Music, commissioned event for London College of Fashion, regular guest lecturer for Camberwell College of Arts… story events for the children of students at Kings College London. University of Minnesota USA. Working with curators to help tell People’s Stories at Imperial War Museum…Performances and workshops for undergraduates and practitioners in FE colleges and Universities.
PR/Charities/Business: Three year project with Coventry Building Society. Performances, training or workshops for Lloyds Bank, Johnson & Johnson, Landor, BNP Paribas International, Charles Russell Speechlys. After dinner storytelling for journalists at the Austrian Tourist board’s Winter launch. “Training to Teach” for doctors at UCL Medical School, promotions and projects for Heinz, London Eye, Samsung KX, Westfield, Pret A Manger, Start Rite shoes, Arthritis Research UK, Hunter Boots, Ward Homes, Peabody Housing trust, Bede House, PECAN, Renaisi and many more.
Childrens Books: Shows, literary festivals and more for Usborne, Andersen, Walker Books and Harper Collins. Titles include A Bear Called Paddington, Five Minutes Peace, We’re going on A Bear Hunt, Elmer the Elephant, Mr Men and Little Miss and many more.
Weird and wonderful: Ten day ‘summer school of wonder’ In a remote castle in the clouds in Italy, In the Ballroom of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Mayfair. The uplifting true story of Catherine Eddowes to reclaim the Ripper narratives. Ghost stories in the Pop Up Gin Shop in Soho, a never-before told story about 16c alchemist Dr Dee in Mortlake. Storytelling in the Arts Club Mayfair, late at Atlantis Magical Bookshop, in the Apple Store Covent Garden, on the roof of the evicted Heygate Estate, lost in the woods with Secret Adventures, locked into Brompton Cemetery at night, in Safehouse1, interpreting bizarre objects for a national exhibition by the Crafts Council, reading a Paddington Bear Book to tens of thousands of people at Christmas, hosting a storytelling seance room for A Curious Invitation Masked Ball…
Watch a story performance on BBC news here. …watch me storytelling at the Union Chapel …Interview with Matt Lucas on BBCRadio2… Telling a scary story to a live studio audience for Tortoise. TEDx talk about magic & storytelling… curating & hosting an afternoon of stories with Guy Garvey for Meltdown at the Southbank Centre … storytelling guide for Michael Rosen’s “We’re going on a Bear Hunt”
