Jason has been a performer most of his adult life, including cabaret and comedy, but his passion lies in storytelling. Storytelling – or ‘performance storytelling’, if you want to be a purist – is the art of performing stories, live, to an audience. Not reading – no books or cue cards – telling it direct, like we all do in day-to-day life with our friends and family, but this time it’s about conjuring pictures in the listeners’ minds, waking the excitement of life and death struggles, the sadness of grief, the elation of success, the ecstasy of love and the chill of fearful horror.

Jason specialises in dark fairytales that blend dark magic and uplifting love themes.

Jason has also won silver at the ‘Grand Annual Lying Festival’, ‘Best Bard’ at Profound Decisions’ ‘Theatre of Joy and Sorrow’, and written and published four collections of his own stories.

He has performed all over the UK, from Southampton to Skye and appeared at Sting in the Tale festival and Romsey Storytelling Festival. He’s told stories in theatres; museums – including the British Museum; olive groves; gothic hotels; art galleries; schools, colleges and universities; pubs, clubs and cafés; cemeteries, and deep in the wild green woods.

Storytelling is for everyone, but different stories are for different people. Jason performs mostly for adults, but also for young people and children. Jason has collaborated with different people over the years, including artists and other storytellers, as well as archaeologist and presenter Mary-Ann Ochota (Time Team, Mystic Britain to name just a couple). Everyone has something to teach and Jason enjoys watching other storytellers to help with his own performances.

Jason has also told stories with a pack of wolves, as they roamed around the woods, threading in and out of the audience.