Carran Waterfield

Carran Waterfield is a Southport-based writer, theatre maker and facilitator whose practice spans over thirty years of performance-making, participatory arts and place-based research. Originally from Coventry, she creates work that weaves together movement, voice, ritual and storytelling, often in collaboration with communities and participants of all levels of experience.

Walking is central to her creative process. Through guided walks, site-responsive exploration and sensory engagement with landscape, she invites participants to encounter place through body, memory and imagination. This approach has led to the development of a walking poetry series, where writing emerges from shared journeys — shaped by rhythm, observation, memory and the textures of the environment.

Her wider body of work includes workshops, residencies and performances across the UK, often created in non-traditional spaces such as quarries, coastlines and heritage sites. She specialises in inclusive, process-led facilitation, enabling people to access creativity through embodied and intuitive methods.

Waterfield’s work is rooted in landscape, oral history and cultural memory, with a particular focus on uncovering hidden narratives and intergenerational stories. Alongside her performance practice, she writes fiction for young people and adult readers. Her novel Pink Granite, a young adult historical fantasy exploring quarry communities, folklore and “angry times,” has been named a finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards.

She continues to develop new work from her base in Southport, creating projects that connect people, story and place.