Storytelling and Place

Vanessa Woolf is a highly skilled professional storyteller and expert in place-based storytelling. Described as ‘London’s resident storyteller’, Woolf has worked nationally and internationally with a long list of clients, ranging from schools to galleries to corporate events, and including the Globe Theatre, the Royal Academy of Arts, and Kensington Palace. Vanessa has also appeared on BBC TV, created a podcast for The Guardian, and given a TEDx talk. For the past twelve years she has run a popular monthly storytelling nights, in which she takes groups out to strange, secret corners of London and tells them a story connected to the place.