Mary has performed in numerous festivals and arts venues inside and outside Britain including at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival in Edinburgh, the Yarnspinners Clubs in Belfast and Dublin, the North Pennines Storytelling Festival, the Festival at the Edge in Shropshire, Celts in Kent, New Zealand’s Glistening Waters International Storytelling Festival, the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg.  Recent engagements include appearing as guest artiste in concerts in Washington State, USA, with the North American Welsh Choir, Côr Cymry Gogledd America. This involved giving the first performance of a newly commissioned work for choir and storyteller, Lifting the Sky.

Over the last three years, Mary has also been touring her one-woman storytelling show, Travels with my Welsh Aunt, with performances at the Festival at the Edge, the London Welsh Centre and numerous venues in Southern England and Wales, including Fishguard as part of the Celtic Connections Festival. 

From the mid-80’s, Mary pioneered Community Storytelling with groups of adults and with Karen Tovell, she ran a 10-year series of creative storytelling workshops at the Drill Hall Arts Centre and the Holborn Centre for the Performing Arts. Her training work includes courses for teachers at the Institute of Education in London and last summer, she co-led the residential workshop for storytellers organised by the Festival at the Edge. 

Broadcasting work includes BBC TV’s Breakfast News Extra and Film Education’s Mulan – Filming Folktales, shown on BBC2 in 1998. Her work has been featured in several educational videos including Common Bonds, the video of the National Oracy Project, and in 1990 she devised the major Channel 4 TV series on storytelling, By Word of Mouth. Her half-hour radio programme on storytelling for BBC Wales Education was broadcast in November 1999.

Mary is also well-known for her work with children. She has made many hundreds of storytelling visits to secondary, primary and nursery schools in Wales, England and other countries and she has completed numerous storytelling residencies. She has selected and edited two children’s books of stories including Time For Telling (re-published in paperback as The King With Dirty Feet and The Big-Wide-Mouthed Toad-Frog) and The River that Went to the Sky (re-published as Tales from Africa). She has been Chair of the Society for Storytelling and she co-edits the Society’s Papyrus, Oracle and Artisan series of booklets.

Mary Medlicott