Events

Category: Storytellers

  • This Party of Five is a Spring Fling!

    Jack Scheer

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    Nice weather is slowly returning to large swaths of these United States. Vaccination rates are rising, and with that the hope we might soon start to build our new, better normal. So as we patiently wait to be together in person again, Better Said Than Done invites you to join us for another online Party… Read more

  • Tip the Tellers for Workin It

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

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    The below is for tipping the storytellers in our March 27, 2021 storytelling show. This is NOT for registering. If you’d like to attend the show, you must register here. If you’d like to contribute a little extra to support our storytellers, you may tip the individual storytellers, or add a tip to be split… Read more

  • The Storyteller Hussle

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

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    This Saturday night, 8 storytellers and 1 host are gonna “Work It!” Get to know a little about each of the performers below and then, on March 27, at 8:00pm EDT, join host Calvin S. Cato, and storytellers Claire Castell, Silvana Clark, Chetter Galloway, Len Kruger, Nina Lesiga, Howard Lieberman, Victoria Rocha, and Anu Senan… Read more

  • The Great Outdoors

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

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    On April 24, 2021, join host Nick Baskerville and storytellers Arthuretta Holmes-Martin, Lou Novak, Via Goode, Sarah Snyder, Milbre Burch, Michael Guinn, and Rocky Ross for stories of “The Great Outdoors.” Read more

  • Women Storytellers of the DMV

    Miriam Nadel

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    Many of our Women’s Storytelling Festival tellers – including several we’ve already highlighted – are already well known in the DMV. That’s DC, Maryland, and Virginia, not the Department of Motor Vehicles. Here are some of our local heroines. Sarah Brady is based in Virginia, but recently spent three years in the U.K. Her repertoire… Read more

  • Storytellers Closing the Distance

    Miriam Nadel

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    One great thing that has come out of the past year is the ability to see storytellers who don’t live in (or travel to) our local stages. Some of the tellers in the virtual Women’s Storytelling Festival live just a few hours away, some live a few time zones away, and some have spent time… Read more

  • From Big Stages to Big Screens

    Miriam Nadel

    The Women’s Storytelling Festival is only in its second year and counts as a fairly small event on the national storytelling scene. But that doesn’t mean the tellers we are bringing you aren’t big names. Several of our tellers, including all four of last year’s featured tellers who we’ve already introduced you to, have been… Read more

  • Spring Workshops

    Jessica Piscitelli Robinson

    Better Said Than Done has been leading workshops on the art of personal storytelling for nearly 10 years. Our workshops have been virtual for the past year. Class sizes are limited to no more than 8 registrants so that each attendee will have time to share a story and receive critical feedback.Read about what you… Read more

  • Meet the Festival Tellers, Again

    Miriam Nadel

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    The 2nd annual Women’s Storytelling Festival is approaching rapidly and we’re looking forward to bringing you 36 of the best women storytellers anywhere.  Some are familiar to our Better Said Than Done audiences, while others are brand new to our (virtual) stage.  Let’s start with the tellers who are returning from last year’s inaugural festival:… Read more

  • 9 Ladies to Lead You

    MistyMator

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    “It’s usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide,” is sound advice British actress Jane Birkin once said. Throughout the 24 hours of stories at the 2021 Women’s Storytelling Festival, these nine excellent emcees will be the local tour guides for the audience (which is you of course! You have your… Read more