About Us!
Magic Box was started by Lottie at the end of 2013 - fun, interactive storytelling sessions where kids help tell the story using the odd things found in the Magic Box. And it has grown and grown since then.
The aim has always been to provide stimulating, imaginative and interactive sessions where kids contribute as much or as little as they want to - but also to entertain the big people, to make them laugh and smile.
Lottie runs drop-in sessions in northeast London; has regular story sessions in local schools; provides fun sessions for birthday parties; and stages storytelling productions, among other things.
There is a lot more that the Box would like to do - so watch this space!
Meet The Team!
Lottie
Lottie is a professional actor who studied English and Drama at Hull University, and went on to train at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Here, she also continued to practise dance and developed a passion for physical theatre.
She has many yearsâ experience of performing on stage, in film, television, and on radio.
When she found herself with two little girls of her own, she remembered how much she loved pretending. Pretending to be anything.
And so she decided to share her pretendings and her making-ups with more little ones. And, hey prestoâĻMagic Box was born!
Lottie likes tap dancing and reading, but has never tried them at the same timeâĻ
Rebecca
Rebecca is a person who likes writing stories. She lives in a very small house and that is where she writes them. She is a grown-up but she has a feeling her stories arenât. In her grown-up life, she has done a few different things. First, she tried to learn French and Italian at a university in Manchester.
Then, she taught English to people from all sorts of places. Then, she opened envelopes, ticked things off and put things away in a cinema archive. And then, she flew to Tokyo where she stayed almost forever and forgot any French and Italian that was still in her head from Manchester.
She found she was quite good at forgetting things so in the end she decided to come back to England in case she forgot that too. She likes reading childrenâs books, things that seem a little bit mysterious and dinosaurs. She has a small problem with spiders that are bigger than a two-pence piece.
