Story Teller, Folk Singer, Crowd-Tamer...

Debs burst out of Birmingham armed with a bucketload of stories and songs from her Anglo-Irish family, a dirty laugh and a way with an audience.

She researches, writes, and performs traditional stories, storytelling shows & guided walks for radio, festivals, clubs, schools and weird and wonderful events all year round.

Quick witted and charismatic with a strong repertoire, Debs can enthral a 55 year old and charm a 5 year old (often at the same time), command an audience of 1000 at Shakespeare's Globe and warm the heart of even the most jaded, rain-sodden festival goer.

She can deliver anything from a bawdy story-and-song evening for an adult audience to a specially written story telling walk for families in your local park. She can light up any sized space, from a tiny paint cupboard in Goldsmiths College (Tea Ceremony) to the whole of Hampstead Heath (Halloween Story Walks 2007-8).

Debs is currently Storyteller-in-Residence at Cecil Sharp House, home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. This is the first residency the society have ever awarded. She's quite chuffed about this!

Background

An accompished collaborator and solo artist, Debs is constantly creating immediate and unique material for audiences of all sizes and ages.

Having gained a Distinction for her MA in Performance at Goldsmiths College in 2002, Debs has worked as a professional performer ever since. Whilst training she worked with accomplished performer-directors including Clive Mendus from Complicite and Susie Walker of Ecole Jaques leCoq.

So...

...if you need a story told, an event compèred, a song sung or a crowd tamed, you can contact Debs for more details and bookings.