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ABOUT TAM

Tam Dean Burn is a Scottish actor and performer on stage and screen.  Recent credits include

War Horse, Shell, Bedlam, River City, the stage adaptation of Venus as Boy and 

Year of the Horse. He will be seen in Sky Atlantic's new drama series, Fortitude, 

later this year.  He has a passion for reading out loud and has voiced many of Irvine Welsh's 

audio books as well as the complete works of William Blake for ResonanceFM,

the LondonArt Radio Station.

 

ABOUT ANDY

Andy Alston is a musician and lecturer. As a member of Del Amitri he has recorded successful albums and singles which were hits in the UK and internationally. He continues to record and tour with other bands and has written music for TV, adverts and various other projects. He also lectures in college on Sound Production and Mathematics and is currently working at Shotts Prison with long term prisoners, producing a CD of songs written by inmates. 

 

ABOUT EMMA

Emma Schad normally works at the National Theatre of Scotland, as the company’s Press Manager. 

She has previously worked as a promoter and producer of new work. 

She plays the flute and tap dances for fun, although never at the same time.

 

Credits:

Produced by Tam Dean Burn and Emma Schad

All books written by Julia Donaldson

Reading and Singing - Tam Dean Burn

Musical Director and accordian – Andy Alston

Flute and Publicity– Emma Schad

Production Manager – Chris Hay

Photography by Johnny Maclauchlan

Graphic Design by Dawn Durrant

Press and marketing support by Joe Blythe

Illustrations and book covers by Axel Scheffler, Rebecca Cobb, David Roberts, Lydia Monks

 

With special thanks to Julia Donaldson and Caroline Sheldon

and the Publishers Macmillan and Alison Green Books, an imprint of Scholastic Children's Books

 

Thanks also to Harper Collins, Oxford University Press, Pearson, Egmont Press, Hodder, Hachette Children’s Books, Little Gems,

Puffin and A &C Black 

 

For all press enquiries please contact: Emma via email here or on 07930 308018

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