SEANCHAIDHEAN AIR TURAS: Storytellers on Tour

Nuala Hayes

Nuala Hayes

Nuala was born in Dublin in Ireland and trained as an actor with the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre. She has been involved with oral storytelling since 1991. She founded Two Chairs Company with flautist/composer Ellen Cranitch to explore words and music in performance.  Two Chairs Company developed through working with legends and folktales and literature and they have toured extensively throughout Ireland and abroad, and have appeared at all the major Storytelling Festivals.  They set up Scéalta Shamhna, the Festival of Storytelling and Music , which took place in Dublin each November and Nuala was it’s artistic director for 10 years.

Angus Peter Campbell

Angus Peter Campbell

Angus Peter Campbell is an award-winning poet, novelist, journalist, broadcaster and actor. Born in South Uist he now lives in the Isle of Skye, with his wife and six children. He is an Honours graduate in Politics and History from the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded the Bardic Crown in 2001, the same year he was given a Creative Scotland Award. His Gaelic novel An Oidhche mus do Sheòl Sinn (2004) was short-listed for the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year, and was also publicly voted in 2006 by readers of the List Magazine into the Top Ten of the Best-Ever Books Written in Scotland. He was given a BAFTA Scotland Award in 2007 for Best Actor Nomination for the lead role in the Gaelic film Seachd.

Ian Stephen

Ian Stephen

Ian is from Stornoway, Isle of Lewis and still lives there though he travels widely as a sailor as well as a writer, storyteller and workshop leader.  He was a coastguard watch manager in Stornoway and still skippers and crews sailing vessels.  His storytelling is indebted to his connections with the maritime world and he also researches and revives Lewis and Hebridean stories.  Ian’s poetry and prose are published in many countries and have been translated into German, French and Czech. Ian Stephen has often featured in the Scottish International Storytelling Festival.