Laurence Staig

Laurence Staig's career has included working in Arts Management as an Arts Council of England Officer, and in local government within the cultural sector. He has previously worked for the USA Piccolo Spoleto Festival annually for 7 years as a visiting writer in residence in Charleston SC. He hs been Artistic Director of many Festivals in the UK and was founding Director (5 years) of the Bath Literature Festival. He has taught Film and Media at UK Universities and Colleges and for 7 years ran Film courses for the WEA as well as annual summer study schools in Film at Cambridge University. He is also experienced in the film and broadcasting industry and as an author (novels, short stories, plays and film scripts). He is the co-author of the first ever book about the Italian Western and creator of the much used descript of the genre: "The Opera of Violence". A new collection of short stories, "Told at Dusk, Remembered at Dawn" has just been published following a novel "The Companion", both published by The Brooligan Press and available on Amazon. He lives on the North Norfolk coast.