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First Name
Diane
Middle Name
Last Name
Edgecomb
Stage Name
Privacy
Phone
6175224335
Region
Northeast
Street Address
PO BOX 300016
City
Boston
State/Province
MA
Country
United States
Postal Code
Primary type of performance
Folk/Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends, Monologues, Storytelling Combined With Music, Personal Narrative Stories, Original Stories, Storytelling/Characterizations
Stories
Virtual Events: Live-zoom, beautiful video recordings accompanied by virtual visits, Celtic, Kurdish, Arthurian Legends, Nature Myths, True Ghost Stories, Solstice Legends and Original
Bi or Multi Lingual
No
Bio
Winner of the first Oracle Award for Storytelling Excellence in the Northeast and the national Circle of Excellence award, Diane is known for the passion and depth of her work whether embodying a true story or bringing renewed meaning to traditional tales. A transformational teller with a rich background in the theater arts, Diane’s dynamic storytelling embraces elements of theater, movement and song bringing each piece vividly to life. With performances not only for adults, but for a wide range of audiences, Diane tours annually nationally and internationally.
Diane’s Storytelling Concerts for adults have toured the US, the UK and beyond. Her solo show, A Thousand Doorways received raves and five star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018. “an epic story told with consummate skill.”- The Stage UK. Her Seasonal Performances with Celtic Harper Margot Chamberlain celebrate the Winter Solstice as well as myths and music from cultures around the world. Now available as performance videos, expertly filmed in beautiful locations from Scotland to the International Storytelling Center Diane’s award-winning Story and Music Concerts may be streamed in real time to your audience! For additional engagement, Diane's virtual artist visits complement and round out the experience with Q and A and insight into the process, the topic and the performance.
An advocate of the preservation of cultural stories, Diane's work collecting the undocumented folktales of Kurdish storytellers in the mountainous Kurdish region of Turkey resulted in her first book "A Fire In My Heart: Kurdish Tales" (a Storytelling World Honors Award Winner) published by Greenwood Press in January, 2008.
Virtual Events for Adults: https://livingmyth.com/performances/storytelling-concerts/storytelling-performances/
Virtual Events for Libraries: https://livingmyth.com/virtual-programming-for-libraries/
Virtual Events for Schools: https://livingmyth.com/performances/streaming-and-virtual-visits-for-schools/
Diane’s Storytelling Concerts for adults have toured the US, the UK and beyond. Her solo show, A Thousand Doorways received raves and five star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018. “an epic story told with consummate skill.”- The Stage UK. Her Seasonal Performances with Celtic Harper Margot Chamberlain celebrate the Winter Solstice as well as myths and music from cultures around the world. Now available as performance videos, expertly filmed in beautiful locations from Scotland to the International Storytelling Center Diane’s award-winning Story and Music Concerts may be streamed in real time to your audience! For additional engagement, Diane's virtual artist visits complement and round out the experience with Q and A and insight into the process, the topic and the performance.
An advocate of the preservation of cultural stories, Diane's work collecting the undocumented folktales of Kurdish storytellers in the mountainous Kurdish region of Turkey resulted in her first book "A Fire In My Heart: Kurdish Tales" (a Storytelling World Honors Award Winner) published by Greenwood Press in January, 2008.
Virtual Events for Adults: https://livingmyth.com/performances/storytelling-concerts/storytelling-performances/
Virtual Events for Libraries: https://livingmyth.com/virtual-programming-for-libraries/
Virtual Events for Schools: https://livingmyth.com/performances/streaming-and-virtual-visits-for-schools/
Ages
All Ages, Children, Adult
School Districts
All
Workshops
Yes
Requirements
Overnight accomodations for travel over five hours round trip
Mentor
Yes
Cost
0
Travel
Yes