Current shows include:

> Sleep only in small spaces (unsettling tales)
> A long way home (stories from Africa)
> By the light of a Celtic moon (Celtic tales)
> What women want (medieval tales)
> The winds of change (tales of transformation)
> A love like salt (stories of love, loss and life)
> The blue planet (a character impersonation, combining three tales and three perspectives)

I craft custom programmes for birthday parties, weddings, cultural events schools, restaurants and other occasions, sometimes telling a series of individual stories, and at other times, creating an interconnected series of tales that are more like a theatre performance than the telling of individual tales.
I also run Story Walks in Innsbruck, with tales that bring the mountains, waterways and streets to life. Programmes change annually.

A lover of stories in all forms, I started telling stories professionally in 2010 and since then, have been telling wise, wonderful and witty tales - in English - in the USA, UK, South Africa, Austria, Italy and further afield. The majority of the stories that I tell are folk tales, traditional tales, myths and legends, spiced up with a few fairy tales, literary tales and the very occasional personal story.

I am presently based in beautiful Innsbruck, where I tell stories and offer storytelling performances at a variety of locations across Tirol, northern Italy, Germany and Switzerland. In summer, I offer story walks for people who want to enjoy the views without an academic tour! I also visit schools on a regular basis, telling stories and supporting English literacy in schools.

Aside from offering storytelling performances, I teach storytelling techniques at the university, high schools and businesses, helping people learn to communicate better by starting with story. I am regularly invited to conferences and events to deliver keynote speeches on the power of storytelling as well as mini-workshops and breakout sessions.

“Ziyadliwa” means “walnut” in Zulu.  Why? Well, that’s another story for another time!

Member of International Storytelling Network (RIC).