Francesca Beard

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Biography

Francesca Beard was born in Malaysia and lives in London. She has been described as ‘spine-tingling’ (The Independent) and ‘The Queen of British Performance Poetry (Metro) and has performed and run workshops for the British Council all over the world. Her one-woman show, ‘Chinese Whispers’, produced by leading performance poetry organisation, Apples and Snakes, toured the UK and internationally from 2003 through to 2007. In 2007, she was on attachment to the Royal Court Theatre as one of the UK’s most promising writers. She is currently working on ‘LondonTales’, a Canterbury Tales for the 21st Century with B3 Media, as part of PowerLab, a cultural leadership programme.

She has been Poet in Residence at institutions such as Hampton Court Palace, the Tower of London, the Natural History Museum, BBC White City and the Metropolitan Police. She works regularly with the Barbican Education Department as well as for the National Theatre, Hampstead and the Round House Theatres.

She brings her work into schools across London and the UK and is currently coming to the end of a tour of ‘Animal Olympics’, a family show about the Chinese Horoscope animals. She is about to start work on ‘Nice Monk, Naughty Monkey’ (working title) a retelling of ‘Journey To The West’ for ages 3 and up. To find out more, please visit her website as below.

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