A brand new company of experienced performers, mixing artforms and languages.

We work bilingually in performance without direct translation and weave words music and movement so everyone can understand and sink into the world of the story.

Our Vision

No rules on how we create stories; transcend, body and minds to connect with audiences and participants in Wales and beyond.

Our Mission

We will explore opportunities to work with, and support dedicated and talented people. We will expand who creates stories, how we create and perform bilingually; stretching, improvising on what storytelling is and can be

For Y Llyn our creative team are:

Michael Harvey - Artistic Director and Storyteller

Eeva-Maria Mutka - Dancer

Stacey Blythe - Musician

Paula Crutchlow -Directorial Support

James Jones-Morris -Set and costume design

Kama Roberts -Producer

  • Michael Harvey - Storyteller

    Michael has over twenty years experience as a storyteller, workshop leader and director in the field of storytelling. He has toured throughout Wales and internationally and was awarded a Major Creative Wales Award in 2011. He works as a freelancer and with the storytelling production company Adverse Camber touring the shows Hunting the Giant’s Daughter and Dreaming the Night Field. Michael is a BASE award winner (British Awards for Storytelling Excellence).

  • Stacey Blythe - Musician

    Composer, performer, and multi instrumentalist, Stacey Blythe has performed all over the UK and America. She is a regular composer for the Welsh National Opera's MAX department. She performed with the folk groups Ffynnon and Elfen. She has worked with many different artists including Maria Hayes (visual art), Patrick Jones (poetry) , musicians (Dylan Fowler, Rajesh David) and storytellers (Nick Hennessey) and the storytelling production company Adverse Camber.

  • Eeva-Maria Mutka - Dawnswraig

    Eeva-Maria is a Bristol based movement artist & maker who used to run Penpynfarch studio & retreat for 20 years. She has been a performer and co-creator in works by significant artists in the UK & US over three decades; including Scotty Hardwig & Andrea Olsen Matkalla (2021) - 6 Best Short Dance Film awards, Miranda Tufnell/Sylvia Hallett/David Ward Pneuma Project (2013-2021) & Gaby Agis Close Streams (at Turner Margate in 2016), and she makes her own visual/performative installation work.

  • Paula Crutchlow

    Paula is a freelance director and dramaturg and collaborates with performers, visual artists, musicians and creative technologists in the UK and internationally. For the last 20 years, her projects with artist collective Blind Ditch have combined participatory and social performance-making approaches with digital and networked technologies to engage publics as thinking citizens and active spectators in events shared across the UK and online.

    As Artistic Adviser for Adverse Camber 2012-19, Paula has collaborated with Michael before on Dreaming the Night Field. Recent projects with storytellers include directing Chasing Crockern: a story of Dartmoor (Lisa Schneidau & Sara Hurley 2024-25); Stars and their Consolations R&D (Daniel Morden & Hugh Lupton 2023), Earth, Water, Fire! (Lisa Schneidau & Emma Welton 2022-23), and VÅR: the story of Hervor (Heidi Dahlsveen & Kristen Bolstad 2019-21).