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First Name
Sandy
Middle Name
Last Name
Schuman
Stage Name
Sandy Schuman
Privacy
Phone
+1-518-229-8345
Website
Region
Northeast
Street Address
29 Magnolia Terrace, Albany NY 12209
City
Albany
State/Province
NY
Country
United States
Postal Code
Primary type of performance
Historical Stories, Storytelling Combined With Music, Personal Narrative Stories
Stories
Personal, historical, and musical stories; folk tales; traditional and original stories in the Jewish storytelling tradition.
Bi or Multi Lingual
No
Bio
Sandy Schuman is fascinated by familiar things and their unfamiliar stories. He brings folk tales and historical sagas to life (“some of our folklore is truly unbelievable, some of our history is even more so”) and reveals the little-known stories behind some of our best-known songs. When you hear him play the guitar and sing, you’ll know why he calls himself a storyteller.
He is a winner of the Susquehanna Folk Festival Liars Contest and the St. Louis Jewish Storytelling Contest and has been featured at The Northeast Storytelling Conference, Riverway Storytelling Festival, Caffè Lena, Proctors, Tellabration, and Limmud Boston.
His stories and related articles have been published in 100 Lives, Distressing Damsels, Memoir Magazine, New Mitzvah Stories, Stonecrop Review, Stories We Tell, Story Club Magazine, Storytelling Magazine, Tablet, The Ethicist, The Story Cookbook, Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore, in his book, Welcome to Chelm’s Pond, and on his blog, Another Side to the Story.
Sandy is a member of the Story Circle of the Capital District, Northeast Storytelling, National Storytelling Network, Jewish Storytelling Coalition, and Lifetime Arts Creative Aging Roster.
He is a winner of the Susquehanna Folk Festival Liars Contest and the St. Louis Jewish Storytelling Contest and has been featured at The Northeast Storytelling Conference, Riverway Storytelling Festival, Caffè Lena, Proctors, Tellabration, and Limmud Boston.
His stories and related articles have been published in 100 Lives, Distressing Damsels, Memoir Magazine, New Mitzvah Stories, Stonecrop Review, Stories We Tell, Story Club Magazine, Storytelling Magazine, Tablet, The Ethicist, The Story Cookbook, Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore, in his book, Welcome to Chelm’s Pond, and on his blog, Another Side to the Story.
Sandy is a member of the Story Circle of the Capital District, Northeast Storytelling, National Storytelling Network, Jewish Storytelling Coalition, and Lifetime Arts Creative Aging Roster.
Ages
Adult, Teenage
School Districts
Workshops
Yes
Requirements
Travel expenses
Mentor
Yes
Cost
I aim to work within your budget
Travel
Yes