SELINA BROWN

Watch Laughology Facilitator Selina Brown help Coleg Cambria learn how to have challenging conversations and communicate with others even on the more difficult topics.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SELINA BROWN

Selina used to work with Great Ormond Street Hospital, which ignited her passion for working with children.

She was also a children’s entertainer, dressing up as princesses and clowns for loads of excitably bouncy, sugar-fuelled kids. She says it sounds scarier than it was. Yeah, we believe you, Selina!

Selina’s not-so-horrible history

Selina’s background in performing and writing has helped her create and deliver a wide range of workshops within the educational, charity and corporate sector. Never one to drop names, Selina has worked with companies such as Montage Theatre Arts, whose patrons include Dame Emma Thompson.

As a performer, she has starred in national commercials for brands like Baker Ross and Barclays and was a part of Bush Theatre’s West London Playwright group, where she wrote and developed her second play.

Selina has created and delivered both virtual and in-person workshops and is passionate about intergenerational projects - uniting young people with the elderly. During the sessions, the groups would devise performances based around superheroes. One of her favourites was when she co-wrote a marriage guide for couples with an amazing woman aged 84 years young, who was married for 59 years.

Selina has been able to combine her creativity with her experience of working within the education and corporate worlds to devise and deliver workshops for the following organisations:

The Federation of Entertainment Unions – Networking workshop and boosting creativity after the pandemic.
Poplar Union Theatre – Key stage 1 online workshop that was filmed, with supporting worksheets on Black British Heroes for Black History month.
Catalyst Housing Association – International Women’s Day workshop on female empowerment
Wizard Theatre – Confidence building workshops through their pupil premium programme

And finally…

Selina is grateful that she can do the things she loves, such as working with us at Laughology (of course), being by the sea and dancing like no one is watching. She is a foodie, despite her allergies, and has become an expert at baking cakes without gluten or dairy or shellfish!

Favourite children’s book?

Six Dinner Sid by Inga Moore

Funniest school-related moment?

I can’t think of anything specific, but know I laughed a lot. Whilst at secondary school, I was a Wimbledon ball girl and met many famous people that included Venus and Serena Williams, who were amazing even back then. Also, Arnold Schwarzenegger aka The Terminator - who wasn’t scary at all.

Favourite teacher?

Mr Bastick – my GCSE English teacher who always believed in me and my writing abilities, as well as making us laugh.

What did you want to be when you grew up?

Journalist or lawyer/forensic scientist, but I realised after completing my degree it wasn’t for me.

What’s your go-to power pose and mantra?

What’s for you, won’t pass you by.

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