Lizzie Bryant

Lizzie Bryant is Dorset based oral storyteller and writer, creating and delivering storytelling performances, story walks, bespoke workshops and training, working and playing with stories and the imagination to inspire connection, community, and creativity. After many years in the film industry, Lizzie retrained as a stonemason and with her hammer and chisel, shaped stone. Her work on crumbling churches led her into the wilder places to explore the old stories, myths and legends told by our ancestors and held in the land and she tumbled into the world of storytelling.

Lizzie now draws upon the treasure trove of world myths and legends and a word hoard of traditional tales, wonder tales and folk lore. She has created a number of site specific work including Pixies and Pillywiggins of Parley Wood, interactive adventure story walks in West Parley Wood for Sting in the Tale Storytelling Festival; Speaking Bones, Dancing Stones, an original bronze age family story walk around Avebury stone circle commissioned by National Trust; Dragon’s Hope, an story for Hallr Wood commissioned by Summerlands Storytelling Festival. She has been commissioned and performed original stories for Salisbury Cathedral’s Craftivate festival. With an MA in creative writing for children from Winchester University, Lizzie regularly writes children’s stories for Serial Mash, an online literacy resource for schools.

Lizzie is part of City of Women, a group of female storytellers who are interested in how women are represented in traditional literature. Their first project together has been co-creating an adaptation of the German medieval epic Kudrun, in collaboration with musician Rachel Miller and performed at Exeter University in 2019 for the Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. 

A long time passion for the night environment and the night sky inspired Lizzie early on in her storytelling journey to create a series of star gazing storytelling events for the National Trust at Stonehenge Landscape. More recently she has been collaborating with the Cranborne Chase AONB and delivered night sky story walks in connection with their Dark Sky Reserve.  Further star-story projects in this amazing dark sky landscape are in development.   You’ll also find Lizzie popping up as Claudia, a Roman administrator in Cranborne Chase AONB’s soon to be launched interactive landscape app!