From the City of Owls, Leeds, England, Angela began preparing to be a travelling storyteller at 12, crossing the sea alone, to Sweden and back. After four years of theatre improvisation and diverse sexual explorations, she set off into the world, living in London and Tuscany, earning the arts of love, hosting and avoiding conformity.
At 25, she discovered the exhilaration of presence, on the edge of unknowing through clown. Pursuing this, she went into transformative training at Britain’s first circus school. Then, the call of an ancient tradition came through a wild, haunting mediaeval ballad and seeking its source she went to the Scotland. She became caught in, then escaped from a Highland cult, finally settling in Aberdeen, the Granite City. The mediaeval ballad led her to learn from Duncan Williamson, master storyteller of the Scottish Travellers, the indigenous culture carriers.
Since 1990, her artistic practice of clown, singer and storyteller, has explored presence, transparency, light heartedness, service, community building and ritual. She has worked in 30 countries, in education, culture, spirituality, ecology, organisation development and healthcare, opening spaces of collective presence so intimacy, wisdom and beauty reveal themselves.
She is a coach, trainer, therapeutic clown and director of the Festival of the Fool, 2025.
‘A Winter’s Tale’, her book, exploring the reflective essence of winter , is the core story for the 2024 Winter Storytelling Retreat, Alvdal, Norway, November 22-24.
