“Every Story I Tell is true,...
...except for the parts that I make up!”
Photo Credit Jonathan Van Ark I am an unrepentant bibliophile and logophile. I love words and word games and reading. I could spend months sitting by a lake with a stack of books and little else and I would be in Heaven. I can’t imagine a life without books....
I love doing sets that challenge audiences when I work in schools. I’m always trying to challenge them linguistically and developmentally. I try to challenge their imagination and their assumptions. We are the sum of the stories we believe, and the stories we reject. We can’t incorporate any...
Some years ago, after a storytelling set, a curriculum teacher told me she really wanted to start using storytelling in the classroom. She asked me what would be the best grade to implement such a thing. I know I had one of those run over by a train looks on...
February is always an exhausting month for me. My running joke is that even people who didn’t know they needed a performer of any kind suddenly need a black one in February! I work with all kinds of audiences. Sixth grade is one of my favorites. Sixth grade is...
I truly hate doing short residencies that are meant to end up in a performance. This is not the case if I am brought in to work with a group of kids who are already planning to present something. In a general classroom setting with a myriad of different...