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Storyteller Directory: Mary Medlicott

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Name: Mary Medlicott

Location: London

County: London

Telephone: 020 7274 6667

Email: Mary.Medlicott@storyworks.org.uk

Mary is highly experienced with adults and all ages of children both in performance situations and in educational and community work. She has been working as a storyteller since the early 1980s and, as well as one-off visits, has carried out numerous residences in schools, libraries, community and day centres in England and Wales, including with Primary and Secondary children, adults with learning disabilities, elderly people and children in the Early Years.

She has also worked widely abroad, including in Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, New Zealand, America and Tobago. She particularly enjoys helping others to become storytellers and has led many training courses for teachers, librarians, parent groups and other storytellers.

She devised the TV series, �By Word Of Mouth�, has compiled several children�s books including �Time For Telling� and �Tales from Africa� and has published two children�s novels, �Open Secret� and �Elephant Luck�.

She has appeared on TV and in educational videos, including for the National Oracy Project, and has been Chair of the Society for Storytelling. She is the author of two storytelling books for adults working with children, �The Little Book of Storytelling� and �Cooking Up a Story�, and her performance pieces include �Travels With My Welsh Aunt�.

She has conducted numerous projects with musicians and visual artists and works from bases in London and her native Pembrokeshire. Her repertoire is formed from traditional stories from many cultures including Wales and she also works through the medium of Welsh with Primary-age children. In workshops, she links the traditional tale with personal stories and storymaking.

• Has special needs experience
• Performs indoors
• Performs to audiences over 100 in number
• Performs to pre-school age children
• 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