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Tutoring/Workshops

2002 – Drama Workshops for Under-5s, Thomas Walling and Cheviot First Primary Schools, Education Achievement Zone, Newcastle upon Tyne

2001 – ‘Speaking Out’, voice workshop, Northern Actors’ Centre, Manchester 

2001 –Voice workshop for the Actors’ Centre, Theatre Royal, Newcastle

2000 – WEA: Creative writing workshops for mental health service users, drop-in centre, Sunderland

2000 – Drama and creative writing workshops, Grange Primary School, Hartlepool

2000 – Creative writing workshop and talk, Benfield School, Newcastle upon Tyne

1997-9 – Drama and creative writing workshops at Kingsley Primary School, Hartlepool

1998 – Creative writing tutor, University of Leeds Adult Education Centre Summer School

1997 – Voice tutor for No Limits Theatre Company, Sunderland, who work with performers with learning difficulties

1997 – Creative Writing Workshops, Prime Time Writers’ Group, Gateshead Libraries and Arts Service

1997 – Playmaking workshops at the Buddle, Wallsend, with ‘Collectively Mobile’, a group of writers and performers with disabilities.  Organised by Them Wifies, funded by North Tyneside Council   

1997 – Drama Workshops, Sunderland High School

1997 – Drama Workshop, Biddick School, Washington

1994 – Creative Writing Workshops, Seaham Writers’ Group

1993 – Drama and creative writing workshops for International Women’s Week, Seacroft Grange Primary School, Leeds

1993 – ‘Creating Characters’ workshop, Redcar Writers’ Group

1993 – Playwriting workshops, Writers’ Group, Sunderland Library

1993 – Schools Workshops, Cleveland County Council.

1993 – Voice tutor, private students

1991 – Tutor for Wallsend People’s Centre Writer’s group.  I wrote the introduction for their anthology Launch Three

1991 – Workshop for Cleveland Writearound, Guisborough

1991 – Creative Writing Workshop, Darlington Art Centre

1991 – Workshops for St. Helen’s Primary School, Hartlepool

1989 – Workshops for Ings Farm School, Redcar

1987 – Chipchase Writers’ Group, Percy Hedley Centre, Newcastle.  I tutored workshops to assist the group in polishing a play they had collectively written about their experiences of disability. Under the auspices of Northern Shape  

1965 – Creative dramatics workshops for 9-12 year olds, Hallie Q. Brown Community Centre, St. Paul, Minnesota