Leon Conrad

Leon Conrad (born 15 September 1965) is a British polymath: writer, story structure consultant, educator, and specialist in historic needlework techniques known particularly for historically-styled blackwork embroidery designs.

He moved back to the UK in 1983, studying piano privately with Sidney Harrison and then at the City Literary Institute with Kenneth van Barthold gaining his LRAM teaching certificate before entering Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 1986, graduating with Honours in 1989.

As a historic needlework practitioner, he was apprenticed to master embroiderer and specialist in Blackwork embroidery, Jack Robinson.

[6] As a voiceover artist, Conrad provided the narration for Ragamala Dance Company's Children of Dharma (premiered at Northrop, MN, 2 November 2024),[7] and the audiobook of Aesop The Storyteller.

[8] Since 2010, Conrad’s research has focused on the application of George Spencer-Brown’s work to the analysis and mapping of story structure.