Featured Storytellers

  • Dovie Thomason
    Dovie Thomason
  • Susan O'Halloran
    Susan O'Halloran
  • Noah Buchholz
    Noah Buchholz
  • Kunama Mtendaji
    Kunama Mtendaji
  • Willy Claflin
    Willy Claflin
  • Angela Lloyd
    Angela Lloyd
  • Regional Storytellers
    Regional Storytellers Over 40 of them at 50 venues
  • Dovie Thomason
  • Susan O'Halloran
  • Noah Buchholz
  • Kunama Mtendaji
  • Willy Claflin
  • Angela Lloyd
  • Regional Storytellers

Featured Storytellers

Susan O’Halloran

Sue is author of six books and creator of the diversity curriculum: Valuing Differences and Creating Inclusion plus recipient of national and international video honors for her training films.Sue produces...
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Kunama Mtendaji

Kunama Mtendaji is a native St. Louisan who was influenced by the stories, poems, riddles, rhymes, songs and stories of his parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. He considers it a priority to study...
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Dovie Thomason

Dovie Thomason is an award-winning storyteller, recording artist and author, recognized internationally for her ability to take her listeners back to the “timeless place” that she first “visited”...
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Willy Claflin

Willy Claflin was born before television. The only child of shy eccentric parents, he grew up in the woods of New Hampshire where he spent his childhood day dreaming and impersonating wild life. In boarding...
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Noah Buchholz

Noah D. Buchholz is a Deaf performing artist. His performances include Deaf cultural folktales, original fiction stories and poems, improv, stand-up comedy, and some works that are translated from English...
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Angela Lloyd

One of the unique performers on the national storytelling circuit today, Angela regularly appears at regional festivals and theatres across the country. A virtuosa on Washboard, Angela's performances are...
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Regional Storytellers

There are over 40 regional storytellers that tell stories at almost 50 venues throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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Susan O’Halloran

Sue is author of six books and creator of the diversity curriculum: Valuing Differences and Creating Inclusion plus recipient of national and international video honors for her training films.

Sue produces performances and videos such as White, Black and Brown: Tribes & Bridges at the Steppenwolf Theatre and More Alike Than Not: Stories of Three Americans – Catholic, Jewish and Muslim.

For the past twenty years, Susan has led hundreds of diversity workshops in both Fortune 500 companies and the academic world.

She has worked with Bea Young for the last 15 years and helped to facilitate the community focus groups for the Elgin Community College Cultural Assessment. She has worked with Bea Young Associates as a co- developer of the Elgin Community College Cultural Competence program. O’Halloran has appeared on PBS and ABC Nightline and in The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune sharing her storytelling skills.