Publicity, consultancy and advocacy for culture and activism – let’s tell your story.
We love the unmissable and bold; the unapologetic and artistically possessed. With a portfolio including Pussy Riot, Reuben Kaye, Travis Alabanza and Leyla Josephine, Storytelling PR specialises in the revolutionary live performance of this age.
Year-round, we run the Summerhall press office and deliver kick-arse campaigns for both UK touring theatre and shorter runs, with current and previous clients including the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Stellar Quines, Sh!t Theatre, the ReCreate Agency and FERAL Arts. We know Scotland’s arts scene – including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – inside-out, and pride ourselves on top-class artist care.
The team is made up of Managing Director Miriam Attwood; Executive Director Emma Ainley-Walker; Senior Publicists Ambrose Kelly and Polly Glynn; and Publicists Erin Frances Speirs, Kirsty Somerville, Fergus Craig, Yeyun Zhou and Luka Smyth.
Despite every project having a chosen campaign lead, we work collaboratively as a team to get the most out of our combined knowledge, creativity, and genre-spanning contacts. This method has allowed us to get some truly impressive coverage for our artists, companies, and creatives – and it makes every day in the office more open, interesting, and inspiring.
“The best feminist PR company in the UK.”
Susan Worsfold – award winning theatre director of The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
Inscribed in Me – The ReCreate Agency, 2023. © Camilla Greenwell
Collaborators
Rebecca Sweeney oversees our in-house finance, AH&Co run our accounts, and web-designer Kate Amann is our always on-hand IT consultant.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Storytelling PR’s aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and companies we collaborate with, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
You can read our full Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy here.
Growler / Where Ye From, 2023. © Kyle Ferguson – Ghosts of the Near Future, 2022. © Michaela Bodlovic
