Craig Jenkins is a dynamic and charismatic performer who delights in taking traditional tales and re-imagining them with a fresh twist.

Working for the past six years as the resident storyteller and international ambassador for the Vayu Naidu Storytelling Company, Craig has performed at a number of high-profile organisations, such as the BBC, the British Film Institute, the Barbican Centre, Somerset House and the British Museum, as well as delivering inspiring performances and workshops in a wide range of community, education and outreach settings: schools, refugee centres, pupil referral units, hospitals, mosques and theatres.

In January 2010, Craig first took his storytelling skills to the South of India, where he represented the UK at Hippocampus’ international storytelling festival: Hoo’s Tales. While there he also took an artist in residency position at the Kattaikkuttu Gurukulam (Tamil Nadu), writing and directing storytelling performances based on classic Indian folk stories and the Indian epic; the Ramayana. He performed and lead storytelling workshops and training across the country, for organisations such as TULIKA publishers, Open Space, SOS Children’s village and a number of schools in Bangalore, Chennai and Pune. Craig is now a frequent visitor to India.

Craig is incredibly passionate about the relationship and resonance that traditional stories hold in the modern world. He has devised a unique methodology that explores ‘the Indian epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata as contemporary social metaphors’; his most recent work in this being the internationally renowned ‘Abhimanyu the Child Soldier’ project.