About Angela
Even as a small child, Angela felt torn between wanting to act, paint and write. The only answer, she decided, was to do all three, and at some stage, attempt to weave them all together. Born in Worcestershire, England, but growing up in William Shakespeare’s neighbouring county of Warwickshire, Angela studied drama and Laban dance, with art as a second subject at Bretton Hall in Yorkshire.She acted professionally, and also taught English, drama and movement at secondary school level. With two small children to support she changed tack and entered publishing in the mid-1960s. She went freelance in 1973 and worked as an Editor, Managing Editor, Consultant Editor and Consultant Development Editor, responsible for hundreds of titles - magazines, partworks and books. In the early 1980s she and a design partner packaged original books for publishers under the name Overall Publications. In 1986, Angela came to Japan for a holiday. Twenty-four years later…
Since basing herself in Japan, she has written profiles, travel features and travel guides, and articles on subjects as diverse as womens’ rights and international gold markets. She was Correspondent in Japan from 1989-96 for Asia Magazine, published in Hong Kong. Until 2009 she had two regular columns (PEOPLE, LIFELINES) in The Japan Times; over 22 years she interviewed over a thousand people.
In 1998 she was commissioned by the Times Group in Singapore to contribute to a series of books about capitals of the world. Insider’s Tokyo, illustrated with her own photographs, was published in late 2001. She recently completed a book about ancestral links: CHASING SHOOTING STARS - A SOUTH AMERICAN PAPER TRAIL INTO THE PAST… for which she is seeking a publisher. Is already hard at work on another project, this time closer to home. And recently returned to painting. As to the acting, well, is not facilitating a large part about commanding your audience and holding its interest? “The inter-weaving,” she says, “continues.”
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