About
About
Here's a bit more about my background and experience. If you're a promoter, producer, or need professional copy, feel free to use either of the biographies below - just let me know if you need something different or want higher resolution copies of the images below.
Short Biography (75 words)
Ben Mellor is a writer, performer, facilitator and creative project manager with over twenty years of experience in socially-engaged arts and education. He has created seven full-length shows which have toured nationally and internationally, and won multiple poetry slams, including the BBC Radio 4 National Poetry Slam. He has published two poetry collections with accompanying audio recordings, and delivered workshops and projects for organisations including The British Library, First Story, and Apples & Snakes.
Full Biography (150 words)
Ben Mellor is a writer, performer, facilitator and creative project manager who has worked in theatres, schools, prisons, communities and festivals across the UK and internationally for over twenty years.
As a creative practitioner, Ben has created seven full-length shows incorporating spoken word, theatre, music and storytelling, published two poetry collections with accompanying audio recordings, and won multiple poetry slams, including the BBC Radio 4 National Poetry Slam. His work has featured on BBC Radio 4, 4 Extra and the World Service, with writing published by Poetry Review, Route and others.
As a facilitator and project manager, Ben has delivered workshops and residencies for people of all ages and backgrounds, with organisations including The British Library, First Story, Apples & Snakes, Contact, and Lowry. Ben has a double BA (Hons) in Drama and English from the University of Manchester and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing from Cambridge University.
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QUOTES:
“A pure undiluted talent. Concentrated”
Lemn Sissay, MBE
“A poet of political perspicacity and no little wit”
Bookslam, London’s best literary nightclub
“Simply one of the UK’s most charismatic spoken word artists”
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