She’s Electric: Performance Storytelling (Elmbridge LitFest 2026)

Vanessa Woolf has led trailblazing storytelling performances for adults and children in major museums and for cultural organisations,  She’s had a partnership with Time Out Magazine, a TEDx talk in Stormont NI and many TV and radio performances. But before she was a professional storyteller her life was completely different…For ten years Vanessa was the only woman working successfully as an electrician in the UK film industry. She powered up, she turned on, she lit some of Hollywood’s biggest stars…and when she was done, she went out in a blaze of darkness. This is her true story.