About Me
Robin Graham (born in London, 30 April 1960) is a performance poet and playwright, Laughter facilitator and teacher of creative writing. In 1999, he co-founded Greenhouse Northwest, a theatre company for people whose first career choice was not performing arts.
His plays include Growing Pains, a monologue for schoolchildren, toured by M6 Theatre Company as part of Double Six; A Mother's Perspective, a monologue about a grandma who is HIV+, toured by Greenhouse Northwest; Club Nemesis at the Green Room, Manchester; Children of Abraham, produced by Manchester Sangeet Academy; Guardians, for the Abraham Moss Youth Theatre; A Different Place, produced by Stop Gap and toured by Ampersand Theatre Company. As Poet In Residence at Clitheroe Castle Museum during The Year Of The Artist, he wrote Crikey Mikey's Summer Holiday which was performed by local schoolchildren and published by Ribble Valley Council. A Different Place and A Mother’s Perspective are published in the Journal of Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (2001 and 2003) at http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal.
As associate writer at greenroom, Manchester, he presented Skin Deep and Crucifixion, two works using poetry and image, and Expressions of Joy, a collaboration using poetry and video. His poetry collections, The Life Of My Time, and The New Koforiduan, are published by KT publications.
He is co-founder of the UK Laughter Network. He currently runs an Arts and Health project in the North West of England based on laughter, including Laughter On Prescription and Laughter In Business.
Links
Laughter
- Laughter Network
- Laughing at Work
- Lots of websites
- Laughter Harmonics (coming soon - end 2007)
General & Ghana
- Co-op Fairtrade
- Ghana radio - Peace FM
- The Communication Initiative
- The Shiatsu Society
- Art Of Living Foundation
- Museum of World Religions, Taipei
- Garstang, Worlds first Fairtrade Town
- Pipe Radio