Cheryl has long experience delivering workshops and residencies, working with schools, colleges, universities, libraries, prisons, theatres and more. She’s worked with people as young as pre-school, and as old as 90+.
While Cheryl tailors workshops to the individual groups, these can give an idea of the kinds she has done:
Schools
Poetry/Lyrics/Monologues
* Early years song writing, using toys as starting points
* Primary Years 4 – 6, poems, short stories or monologues using photos as starting points
* High School/ A-Levels, residencies, week-long, preferably in conjunction with museum/gallery exhibits, creating songs, poems, stories and monologues using exhibits as starting points
Libraries, hospitals, prisons, theatres, youth groups
* Poetry workshops looking at use of senses and imagery to paint pictures in readers’/listeners’minds
* Drama workshops
Writing
* Creating character
* Looking at structure
* Using personal experience to create narrative
* How to create subtext
* Making characters sound real – dialogue
* Drama workshops
Acting
* Making a character yours
* Actioning
* Diction
* Understanding and speaking Shakespeare