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Connie Regan-Blake is considered a pioneer in bringing storytelling to a national audience. She helped to shape and ignite the American storytelling revival. She is a founding member of the National...
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Willy Claflin resides in San Francisco, He grew up in New Hampshire. He is a former classroom teacher. While at Harvard, he performed music and comedy. He knows hundreds of folk songs. His stories...
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Jackson Gillman is known as the "Stand-Up Chameleon." He incorporates song, dance, mime, and sign language into his storytelling. What distinguishes him from other storytellers is his use of movement...
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Darion McCloud is a storyteller who works in the children's room of the Richland Library in Columbia, S.C. He is also an actor and director of theater productions. Most notably, he is the artistic...
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Kelly Swanson combines the art of theater, standup Southern comedy, and storytelling. Her wholesome stories, centering on the fictional town of Cedar Grove and its inhabitants, often offer a poignant...
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Kitty Wilson-Evans is a nationally acclaimed historic interpreter and storyteller. Her most famous slave reenactment is the character of Kessie, who is a fictionalized blend of Kitty’s reenactment...
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A storyteller since 1990, Mike Ethridge is a litigation attorney residing in Charleston, S.C. His stories include ghost stories, folk tales, and personal anecdotes. He frequently includes music in his...
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Minerva King is a storyteller and oral historian. Her stories feature African American, African, West Indian, and Native American tales. She often visits schools as a storyteller and believes that...
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Ramona Moore Big Eagle is an oral historian and legend keeper from the Tuscarora National Reservation. She is a cultural educator for Tuscarora/Cherokee. Her storytelling is interactive, using...
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Born and raised on Sullivan’s Island, Dorothea Benton Frank is the New York Times best-selling author of Bulls Island, published in 2008, and many other works that use South Carolina as a backdrop...