Creative Loving Spirit

Helen Seymour is a spoken-poet-word-artist-human-performance-person based in Canterbury, and the writer and performer of the shows ‘To Helen Back’ and ‘Helen Highwater’. We speak about Helen’s performance beginnings in poetry slams and the early influences which inspired her to bring an element of surprise into her work and play with audience expectations, how being onstage invited her to be and share more of who she really is, what makes the collaboration with her director work as well as it does and how she sees success as being standing by everything you do and being content with that. FOLLOW HELEN Website: http://www.whatthehelen.net Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/HeronSeasaw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whathelens/ Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album her

Michelle Donkin is a writer and producer and the co-founder of Brighton based Cast Iron Theatre. Our conversation begins with how childhood Michelle was inspired by Star Trek to write herself onto the bridge of the starship Enterprise before realising that exploring human relationships was more interesting than space. We talk about her time spent studying film and scriptwriting at the the National film and Television School, her move into theatre and producing and universal themes like finding your voice and creating what is authentic to you, helping others as you go and how to stay kind to yourself as you live and create. FOLLOW MICHELLE Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@michelledonkinW FOLLOW CAST IRON THEATRE Website: https://www.castironbrighton.weebly.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@cast_ironacts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/castirontheatre Instagram: http://instagram.com/cast_iron_theatre Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other t