Steve Gladwin
I was born in Grimsby in Lincolnshire and I have been a performer, teacher, director and storyteller for twenty five years. During that time I have worked with just about every type of group imaginable and have continually displayed the ability to get the things out of people they never knew they had. I have always believed that we all have it there somewhere and it's just a question of helping the individual to find the key.
I offer a variety of work as both performer and storyteller but am at my best when I can offer both in combination. Most of my work offers me the chance to do this and I have always tried to adapt to need as much as I can. Remember it's always worth asking as I may well be able to help you. What I can offer you is half a life time of experience and reflection on my triumphs and the odd failure. Here is a bit more about me
I was based for ten years in Somerset, mainly at Bridgwater Arts Centre where I headed the resident company "Skin o' the Teeth, (later "Tales with Teeth) and produced a variety of work for local schools and community including work funded by both the arts council, ("Splash") and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and latterly a major six month celebration of the town's heritage in "Bridgwater 800". Our work also included supporting A level Theatre Studies, Key Stage 3 Shakespeare, ("A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet") and three premieres of new work; "The Girl beteen the Lines" and "The Sixteenth Day", (both by Stuart Croskell) and an adaptation of "The Song of Taliesin" by John Matthews which is shortly to be released on CD.
I met my late wife Celia on a storytelling course on the Lleyn Peninsula, after which we moved to Wales and formed "Caught Between Worlds". In the six years we were together we set up The Festival of the Singing Head, an anglo-welsh storytelling festival (2002-3) in the Vyrnwy Valley where I still live. We also toured the parks and stately homes of Wales and England with "Twisting Tales"and our Merlin and Lad characters became a familiar sight to audiences at Shrewsbury, Whittington, and Powys castles and Hawkstone Park, as well as in many local schools and in collaboration with the Shrewsbury Museum Service.
My teaching work has included BTEC Performing Arts and A Level Theatre Studies, and Drama to NNEB, Special Needs and other groups of students at Grimsby and Bridgwater Colleges and most recently at Coleg Powys in Newtown. I also ran with Celia a year of workshops for Masquerade Integrated Drama in Llanfyllin, and bardic creative workshops at both "Cae Mabon" in Snowdonia and "Wildways" in Shropshire with both her and Andy Harrop Smith.
Since Celia's death in 2006 I have been setting up a variety of projects including "Swanfall", my bereavement storytelling initiative, my collaboration with Wrexham based storyteller and close friend Andy Harrop Smith with "The Last of the Red Hot Bards", and the forthcoming and long awaited recording of "The Song of Taliesin" as "Spintale", (with Somerset based storyteller and musician Jem Dick).
I am also working on two important writing projects; a play about domestic violence and it's consequences for friends and family entitled "Invisible", and "Singing Head" a mythic fantasy story for both children and adults set in the Vyrnwy Valley where I live.
My latest project as part of my ongoing work with "swanfall - bereavement support through the arts" is the "are you having a laugh" project, which uses a day of comedy and tragedy to introduce the idea of loss and bereavement to years 5 and 6.
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