Welcome
I am a professional storyteller with a background in street theatre, drama and music. I am currently based in Newcastle Upon Tyne and Gateshead, from where I have been telling stories, making theatre and running a wide range of workshops throughout the North East (as well as further afield) for more than 20 years. From June 2016 I will be living and working in Cornwall and the South West where I hope to continue and develop my work. I tell all kinds of stories to the widest spectrum of audiences from pre school children to senior citizens, sometimes in the same session. I deliver story making and drama workshops and I also train and mentor others in storytelling skills. I work in schools, museums, libraries and theatres, as well as non conventional venues such as fields, woodlands and railway stations. I work extensively across the North East region, and also nationally, touring to storytelling clubs and festivals across the UK. I teach storytelling to international students at the United World College in Flekke, Norway.
I have many years' experience of working in schools ,enhancing curriculum subjects for students and training teachers in drama and storytelling skills. I have expertise in sensory storytelling for people with multiple and profound learning difficulties and train others in this through a London based charity called Bag Books. I also regularly deliver workshops for Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books. I am very keen to take storytelling to new audiences and to this end, I run The Storycafé evenings at a number of very nice cafes around the North.
I have Full CRB and Public Liability. I am also a member of Equity, the actors union, and the Society for Storytellers.
To contact me please use the email and phone details at the top of the page.
I have many years' experience of working in schools ,enhancing curriculum subjects for students and training teachers in drama and storytelling skills. I have expertise in sensory storytelling for people with multiple and profound learning difficulties and train others in this through a London based charity called Bag Books. I also regularly deliver workshops for Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books. I am very keen to take storytelling to new audiences and to this end, I run The Storycafé evenings at a number of very nice cafes around the North.
I have Full CRB and Public Liability. I am also a member of Equity, the actors union, and the Society for Storytellers.
To contact me please use the email and phone details at the top of the page.
Patrick and bridget
Meet storytellers, Patrick and Bridget, the most unlikely couple you are likely to meet. Together, and sometimes apart, this pair of clowning fools have travelled the highways and byways of the land, gathering tales, songs and herbal remedies. Patrick and Bridget have been delighting audiences all over the land with their whacky, interactive performances since they first arrived over from the all Irland Pig Wrestling Championships in Tubacurrie, 20 years ago. I am currently building a website dedicated to these characters, it should be ready soon.
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A wee seasonal story for you to listen to
The Boy Who Went to the North Wind
The Boy Who Went to the North Wind
THE StorIESI tell traditional stories from all around the world, mostly humorous, though I do tell serious stories too. I tailor story sessions to suit the themes of your event, indoor or out!
"Gary charmed the socks off our audience when he did a hot spot for us last year so we couldn't resist asking him back for the full monty! He has a lively, interactive style of telling, and is a dab hand at African drumming! His voice will mesmerise you and the stories will enchant you."
Sophie Snell. The Flying Donkeys storytelling club. Derby. 2013. 
"We were all left with a perfectly told example of a timeless story by Gary Cordingley. His telling of the story of the baker who wanted to charge a poor lad for breathing in the smell of his bread was engaging and memorable. That spoken story will now go on that bit further than it did before."
© Ian Stephen, 2012 (Tip of the Tongue storytelling festival, Jura.) |
The frog and the Crow. |