Hannah Brailsford is a performance storyteller, actor and creative arts practitioner. She has a particular passion for introducing and connecting communities through storytelling and inspiring others to tell their stories. Her company Tiny Tales Storytellers provides storytelling to pre-school and Primary school children and their families and she is also creative director of Spinning Yarns Theatre which provides pop up storytelling and spoken word/music events for adult audiences in Essex & Kent. Her solo work is inspired by the landscape and the folklore connected with it and the female gaze/identity in folk tale and myth.
In 2022, she received micro commissions from Adverse Camber & 1Degree East to help develop ‘Quercus’, a solo piece focusing on the relationship between Oaks and people both historically and now. The project involved research into the folklore of the Oak and focused on the decline in woodland in Kent and Essex and the challenges faced by diseases such as acute oak decline and is planned to tour open air sites across the two counties in 2024.
In 2021, she received a DYCP to explore her storytelling practice in relation to working collaboratively with other artists and art forms. This period of exploration lead to the development of ‘Skinned’ in collaboration with At Swefn’s Edge, an immersive -storytelling soundscape which takes European folklore around were-woman and lycanthropy to explore the idea of feminine identity in relationship to skin.
