Ben Haggarty

Ben Haggarty (* 1958 ) is a British narrator ("storyteller").

Life

Haggarty began his professional storytelling career in 1981 at the Welfare State International Theater . In 1985 he co-founded the Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival , the UK's first storytelling festival, of which he was artistic co-director from 1993 to 2005. In the same year he founded the Company of Storytellers with Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton . Also in 1985 he organized the first International Storytelling Festival in the Battersea Arts Center , as well as the successor festivals in 1987 in the Waterman Arts Center and in 1989 in the South Bank Center .

In 1987, Haggarty founded the Crick Crack Club , which promotes the art of storytelling and organizes storytelling events and workshops. From 1999 to 2001 he was the UK's first official Ciry Storyteller in Gloucester. Since 2001 he has been involved in the family concert program of Yo-Yo Mas Silk Road Project as a narrator. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Haggardy's repertoire includes more than 350 works for children and adults, including the Gilgamesh Epic , Irish Myths and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . He has performed in more than twenty countries and his work has been broadcast on the BBC radio and television . In 2010 his "graphic novel" for children MeZolith was published with illustrations by Adam Brockbank .

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SURNAME	Haggarty, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British narrator
DATE OF BIRTH	1958