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Name: Anthony Nanson

Location: Gloucestershire

County: Gloucestershire

Telephone: 01453 840887

Email: anthony@quintus1.plus.com

Anthony has been telling stories professionally and running storytelling courses since 1999. He founded the Bath Storytelling Circle that year and instituted evening classes in storytelling at the University of Bath in 2000. He�s worked in arts centres, bookshops, cafes, camps, castles, charities, churches, clubs, festivals, fetes, galleries, gatherings, parties, retreat centres, schools, theatres, universities, weddings, woods � around Britain and in Greece and Finland � and has appeared on television and radio. He performs solo and with the company Fire Springs, with whom he co-produced the epics Arthur�s Dream, Robin of the Wildwood, and Return to Arcadia.

His flexible performance style varies from high-energy intensity on stage to cheerful informality in the pub. At the core of his repertoire are traditional stories from Britain, Ireland, Greece, East Africa, and the Middle East. He also tells true stories of exploration and ecological history and his own traveller�s tales and original stories. His workshops combine practical performance skills with techniques in preparing stories � usually with a focus such as Greek myth, Celtic myth, King Arthur, Bible stories, or nature stories.

Anthony�s concern about today�s ecological crisis informs much of his work. He�s the author of Storytelling and Ecology: reconnecting nature and people through oral narrative, has led workshops on ecological stories for the SfS, Tales to Sustain, and WWF, and was the keynote speaker at the first Greek conference on storytelling and environmental education in 2007. He also writes fiction, and teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University. He has degrees in natural sciences and creative writing and a PGCE, has worked as a science teacher, and has lived in Kenya and Greece.

• Performs indoors
• Performs outdoors
• Performs to adults
• Performs to audiences over 100 in number
• Performs to primary age children
• Performs to secondary age children
• Performs to senior citizens
• Runs workshops for adults
• Runs workshops for children
• Travels anywhere in the U.K.
• Works in other art forms