Based in Cambridge, Marion and her amazing story mat are familiar visitors to museums, schools and libraries around the region. She has toured her shows for grownups to clubs and festivals around the country and internationally. She tells stories for children of all ages, and specialises in multi-sensory storytelling for the very young and for people with learning difficulties.
She writes on education and storytelling for the magazine Early Years Educator and for PPS books.
She is a long time member of the local group Cambridge Storytellers, and is currently involved in organising the East Anglian Storytelling Festival.
Having discovered and immersed herself in the world of storytelling several years ago, Maria takes traditional tales and makes them her own, breathing life into characters and taking the listener on journeys of magic and myth.
She has told at clubs across the UK and abroad and is a featured teller at the Marrakech International Storytelling Festival in February 2022.
'The glorious Maria Credali took us back to Arthurian England and the mournful tale of the cursed Sir Marrock: sorcery, swineherding, wolves and the restorative power of paternal love - an irresistible combination that drew the packed house into a vivid world of story conjured by Maria.'
Baden Prince
John Row has worked in schools, colleges, prisons, museums, festivals and arts centres in the UK, USA, and mainland Europe. He has created characters for re-cycling and public information road shows and casino bonuses scripted films and plays in prisons. As a compere he has worked on children's festivals and in circuses.
For longer than he cares to remember John Row has told stories on four continents at schools and festivals. He became the first Storyteller in Residence at Wayland Prison in 1999 and gained publicity for the ‘Storybook Dads’ scheme which has since grown into a national charity and been adopted by countries all over the globe. He developed storytelling as a regular feature of Cambridge Folk Festival and runs the Storytelling Lounge in the Kidz Field at Glastonbury Festival as well as being featured regularly at Folk East, Cropred and Chippenham Folk Festival.