Manju Gregory
Manju Gregory has long and rich experience in bringing
toys and shadows to life through storytelling in theatres
and schools. She has used their dynamic mechanisms to
not only enhance the drama of storytelling but also
to deliver important targets throughout the curriculum.
Her strong beliefs in allowing people to grow up or
develop through the use of drama and hands on creativity
and expression have taken her many places over the years.
In 1984 she formed Kabutar Theatre Company, and her
credits include the Theatre Museum, the Science Museum,
the V&A museum, the Barbican, the World Museum Liverpool,
the Mousetrap Foundation, the South Bank, the Little
Angel Theatre, the Ragged School Museum and many more,
including many educational authorities and hundreds
of schools around the UK.
Manju also works as a consultant and delivers teacher
training on a range of techniques involving storytelling,
toy technology, shadow theatre and crafts. Various television
credits include work for Channel 4 and CBBC’s
Storymakers. Kabutar theatre credits include The
Journey to Heaven, The Garland of Birth Stories,
many small shadow theatre shows, and The Singing
Turtle. Other creative credits include Puppetworks’
All in a Twist and Indigo Moon’s The
Lost Forest.
Writing and illustration credits include various dual
language children’s picture books for Mantra Publishing
as well as one on exploring Indian crafts. Input for
many teachers’ resource packs includes the Horniman
Museum and the Commonwealth Institute. She exhibited
hand painted textiles at the Ice House, Holland Park
(London) in 1982, and provided exhibits and workshops
for the Toy Stories exhibition at Cheltenham Museum
and Art Gallery in 2002.
In 1992 she collaborated with Banbury Museum in Oxfordshire
and others including Robert Race to make a major travelling
exhibition, Dynamic Toys, which has travelled worldwide.
In addition to extending her work further into consultancy,
Manju is now developing her work as a playwright.
For more details contact:
Manju Gregory
137a Kensington High Street
London W8 6SU
Tel. +44 (0)7939 204 120
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