KIND Voices
KIND voices is an evening of contemporary poetry, story-telling and singing
Join us for a celebration of the human voice featuring poetry, story-telling and singing!
KIND voices is an evening of contemporary poetry, story-telling and singing at Studio KIND, bringing together a collection distinctive voices for a night of language, reflection, and connection. Join Nayomie James, Rosamund Clare, Katy Lee, Grizel Luttman-Johnson, Gabby Young and Helena Payne for an intimate gathering of words shared aloud.
Please feel free to bring along your own alcoholic beverages too!
Nayomie James, of Unexplored Places Theatre Co, is now living and working in North Devon, having trained and worked in London as a professional actor for over a decade. Pursuing her love of writing, Nayomie has recently engaged with Paines Plough on their three-year Tour The Writer programme, which culminated in her first full-length stage play. Now writing poetry for a spoken word event, a screenplay, a set of children's books and a panto, Nayomie decided that she should also write a new short play for The Landmark Theatre's Welcome Weekender this year. Nayomie is continuing to perform professionally as a dancer for Switchframe Scenic Dance, spoken word poet and actor, notably this year with Pleasure Dome Theatre Co again, returning to the Valley of Rocks, Exmoor.'
Grizel is an artist who also writes some poems. Poetry is the little sister but they are in league.She has never found words an easy medium - there's translation from an abstract brain involved.Making a poem can still feel like lying underneath a car fixing an engine with a cold spanner. But its good when it goes.She is quite an experimental person.
Helena Payne grew up between Exmoor, London and Hong Kong. She read English at the University of Exeter before training as an actor at Drama Studio London. She continues to study voice privately. As an actor, she has played Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Edmund "played with verve and brio," in LEAR, Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest, Will Doone, and Gwenny in Lorna Doone, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, and Lady Sims in The Twelve Pound Look with Pleasure Dome. Other work includes Sexism is Bad… at The Arcola, Top Girls at The Southbank Centre, Praxagora in The Assembly Women, Mrs Smith in The Bald Prima Donna at The Old Red Lion, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Guiderius in Cymbeline at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival, The Blind/The Intruder at the Old Red Lion and its transfer to the Tabard, The Alchemist at the Riverhouse Studios, Viola in Twelfth Night and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing at Petersfield Shakespeare Festival, and Like Enemies of the State at the Pleasance.
