Beth Godfrey

Background

About Beth Godfrey

FACILITATOR Poetry • Choice Theory • Life Skills • Performance • Team Building • Youth Work WRITER + PERFORMER Poetry • Spoken Word • Plays FACILITATION • Associate Director: Engagement at Stellar Quines Theatre Company, leading on strategy for all our work engaging with communities, schools and audiences • Delivering to multiple regional cohorts across UK teaching Choice Theory for Developing Youth Practice and Street Games, funded by The Home Office's Violence Prevention Unit • Facilitating Life Skills Workshops for Taqaddam and The British Council in Qatar and Morocco. • Hosting Poetry Workshops for Glasgow Women's Library, Shakti Women's Aid and The Welcoming for Open Book, as well as freelance via Scottish Book Trust for National Library and others. • Running Drop -In for socially isolated women for the YMCA • Drama workshops for Stellar Quines, The Princes Trust, No Knives Better Lives/Strange Town Youth Theatre, Indelible Arts Youth Theatre, Baldy Bane Theatre Company, CragRats. • Social + Life Skills workshops for The Princes Trust, Taqaddam and YMCA. WRITING Published Works Home, All the Way Home Anthology, TAPROOT PRESS Drama Lessons, English Plus Teachers Handbook. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS The Bench, Unbound, COMMISSIONED BY OPEN BOOK Group Poems by Shakti Women's Aid, OPEN BOOK Written and Produced Works • SOAK, Manipulate Festival, Traverse Theatre 2019 • Is Was Will Be, Festival of Physics 2018 • Everyone Can Come To Our Heaven, Fresh Voices At The Fringe, The Lighthouse 2018 • Five Plays for STRANGE TOWN YOUTH THEATRE. All performed at The Scottish Storytelling Centre. • Remembering Home, INDELIBLE ARTS YOUTH THEATRE PERFORMING Performance Highlights • STANZA Poetry Slam Winner 2023 • SOAK, part of Snapshots at Manipulate Festival • Street Theatre with Abu Dhabi Science Festival + MilleniumFX, Interactive Performances for Debasers Filums, Edinburgh Science Festival, National Museum of Scotland, Kelburn Garden Party. • Toured Mrs Jordan to Festival Mondial de Marionnettes de Charleville-Mézières, France with Puppet Animation Scotland. • Performances at Edinburgh Fringe: Panga, Hex and Chow Mein with Strange Town Young Company