Nell Gifford is director and creator of Giffords Circus.
She is a published writer and a professional circus performer. Collaborations to date are Caravan and Yasmine a Musical, War & Peace @ the Circus and The Saturday Book.
In 2011, Nell Gifford won the inaugural Groucho Maverick Award. The £10,000 prize was set up to celebrate an individual who has “broken the mould in the arts within the last year” and the judging panel regarded to be a cultural “maverick”.