Tag: storyteller
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Women’s Festival Spotlight – Megan Hicks
I first met Megan Hicks when she led a workshop on parody at a National Storytelling Conference more years ago than either of us would want to admit to. As I laughed through her telling us about Cinderella’s encounter with her fairy groundhog, I knew she was a storyteller to be reckoned with. When I… Read more
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Women’s Festival Spotlight – Meghann Shutt
Meghann Shutt owns Bridge Consulting, a small consulting firm that provides fundraising and organizational development support to nonprofit and government agencies in Maryland and DC. She is passionate about supporting people and communities in their efforts to make the world a little better than they found it. Meghann is performing in the Women’s Storytelling Festival‘s… Read more
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Women’s Festival Spotlight – Vijai Nathan
For more than 20 years, Vijai Nathan has been performing on stages all over the world, but she started preparing to take the microphone much earlier than that. She’s the youngest of three sisters and they grew up imitating their parents to each other. Vijai draws inspiration for both her stand-up comedy and her storytelling… Read more
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Women’s Festival Spotlight – Jane Dorfman
Jane Dorfman tells traditional, personal, and Celtic stories. Jane performs at festivals, libraries, and schools. She has recently started lying and finds it “very freeing.” Jane is performing in the Women’s Storytelling Festival‘s two lunch time show producers’ storytelling shows at the Auld Shebeen on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Jane runs Voices-in-the-Glen, a MD based… Read more
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Family Stories
The last storytelling show Better Said Than Done hosted in 2019 was called “Family Ties.” Storytellers Catherine Calvin, Miriam Nadel, Jessica Robinson, Giselle Ruzany, Ellouise Schoettler, Sarah Snyder, Gayle Turner and Sufian Zhemukhov shared true, personal storytelling show about family, at The Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA. Gayle Turner started the show off with a… Read more
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Thanksgiving Weekend Storytelling Show
Our final storytelling show of 2019 is the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I don’t know about you, but I am thankful to have a place to go where I don’t have to eat pie, buy stuff that’s “on sale,” or talk politics! On November 30, 2019, join Better Said Than Done storytellers at the Auld Shebeen… Read more
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Storytelling Comedy Special
I am a storyteller. It’s kinda my thing. I perform in a lot of storytelling shows. And I go to a lot of storytelling shows. And I love storytelling. But I also love stand-up comedy. I go to a lot of comedy shows. I watch a lot of comedy specials. But when I perform in… Read more
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Andy Irwin’s Fairfax Visit
Last Saturday night, international rogue and nationally renowned storyteller Andy Offutt Irwin, stopped by The Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA to sing some songs, quote some poetry, whistle a tune or two, and do some storytelling on our stage. The storytelling show/extravaganza was hosted by Jessica Robinson, who shared a story about her husband and… Read more
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Storyteller Andy Offutt Irwin in Fairfax
Join Better Said Than Done on September 14, 2019 at The Auld Shebeen in Fairfax, VA for a very special storytelling event with internationally renowned storyteller ANDY OFFUTT IRWIN! There are too many awesome credits to list here, so, check out Andy’s full bio to try to grasp his accomplishments. Here are a few things… Read more
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Storyteller Spotlight: Denise Bennett
Denise Bennett is an award winning storyteller and musician. Her true story that she will be telling at June’s Better Said Than Done storytelling show, “Smoking Gun,” won second place in National Storytelling Festival Slam in 2018. She is also a Virginia champion liar, a retirement community chaplain, and published writer. Watch a video of… Read more