With over 25 years professional performance experience, Justine came to storytelling from a background in community and street theatre.
Justine is a passionate, energetic and inventive performer who delights in connecting playfully with audiences in her performances and participants in her workshops.
Her storytelling practice So… what’s the story? has seen her telling and hosting at festivals and events nationally and internationally including the International Storytelling Festival in Marrakech, StorySeed in Timisoara Romania as part of the European Capital of Culture, Cambridge Folk Festival, Edinburgh Literary Festival, Folk East and The UK’s National Centre for the Folk Arts. Her eclectic storytelling work ranges from telling and facilitating in schools, libraries and prisons, to performing raucous adults only one-woman storytelling shows, to facilitating story sharing through drama for learning disabled people.
She also hosts a monthly online open mic Tales n Tunes, in association with the World Storytelling Cafe
Justine is proudly neurodivergent and has a special interest and experience in storytelling for those with additional needs and life challenges, and contributed the chapter ‘The Autistic Storyteller’ to the book Storytelling, Special Need and Disabilities (Routledge) edited by Dr Nicola Grove
“Justine is a fabulous storyteller, she had the children captivated from the moment she said ‘once upon a time’, telling them tales that made them both shriek with giggles and hide behind their hands. Professional, fun and vibrant, I couldn’t recommend Justine more!” #Sarah Butt, Killick & Co, Elmer's Big Parade Storytelling Event, Ipswich.
“Justine doesn’t tell stories, she inhabits them, gets inside and lives them, while grabbing you by the hand and saying ‘Come on, let’s go!'” Janina Vigurs, Storyteller
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