Backintyme
Frank & Mary Lee Sweet
Backintyme portrays living history in song and story. Programs include Civil War, Christmas, Fourth of July, Irish, Stephen Foster, Mary Lincoln, Mark Twain, Stories from Florida History, 19th Century children’s stories and songs. Customized programs upon request.
Phone: 386-439-9413
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.backintyme.com
Natalie Beltrami
Natalie is an award-winning artist, actor, poet, published writer, and storyteller. She believes stories are the threads that create the fabric of our lives. She has told stories all of her life–but only on stage since the 1990s. Natalie performed at the Limelight Theater and most recently at A Classic Theater, in St. Augustine. She spent years on the Board and the stage and won "Best Supporting Actress" at Lake Oswego (Oregon) Center for the Performing Arts. Along with other members of the Tale Tellers, she created a multi-media production to commemorate the centennial of women's right to vote, and a tribute to exceptional women in 2022. Her performances are as varied as her venues. She has many stories to share. Some of the true ones are more fantastic than the fictional ones!
Phone: 904-797-6520
Email: [email protected]
Kathy Duffy
Kathy is a retired librarian who has found a new life through her interests in storytelling and medieval reenactments. Her storytelling repertoire ranges from lighthearted tales to grim and scary, suitable for all audiences. She is an accomplished teller at festivals around the country.
Phone: 386-283-4362
Email: [email protected]
David Fussell
David Fussell, a fifth-generation Florida Cracker and fifth-generation Wiregrass Georgia Cracker, tells yarns and rhythms of Cracker life through personal experiences and learned lore of Florida’s past. With wit, wisdom, humor, and laughter the Cracker South comes alive; fifty years of storytelling from the front porch.
Phone: 815-822-5331
Email: [email protected]
Papa Joe Gaudet
Papa Joe’s Traveling Storytelling Show
Papa Joe Gaudet’s living folktales have captured family audiences from Cow Head, Newfoundland, to Austin, Texas, from the beaches in Florida to the mountains of Washington State.
Phone 603-770-6916
Email: [email protected]
Margaret Kaler
Margaret continues her family traditions of storytelling and theater. Her dramatic style brings humor and life to original stories of her childhood in St. Augustine, of historic people and events, traditional folk tales, myths, literary stories, and especially ghost stories.
She tells stories at Romanza, COA, libraries, schools, community events, and the Florida Folk Festival.
She received a ROWITA (Recognizing Women in the Arts) award, and has been a featured teller at the Florida Storytelling Festival.
Phone: 904-377-7063
Email: [email protected]
Chris Kastle
Chris Kastle is an award winning storyteller, songsmith, and author. She is a seasoned traveler who offers insight into a lifetime of adventure with original works that possess great imagery and have the occasional flavor of Celtic and Maritime traditions. Nonets in Nine Courses: Recipes in Verse, her most recent release and first book of poetry, adds to many other published resources.
Using her background in storytelling and education, she has presented for “Stories in Schools” and, as a teaching artist with Arts4All, has created a myriad of multidisciplinary programs for students with disabilities. Chris was the 2015 recipient of the Annette J. Bruce Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Storytelling Association and was a featured teller at the 2024 Florida Storytelling Festival. She has served on the boards of both organizations.
Website: www.chriskastle.com
Kathy Kniery
Retired educator, storyteller, and a fan of the CUBS!
Kathy is a recently transplanted Illinoisan. After 30 years of serving in public and private schools as a library/media specialist and sometimes social studies teacher, she gave up cold weather and snow for sunshine and ocean breezes. It was not a hard choice. Now retired, she is focusing on the favorite part of her former career: storytelling. Kathy is also learning more about her favorite hobbies, photography and graphic arts.
Phone: 309-825-8482
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.storytellerkathy.com
Carol Kramer
Carol Kramer is an award-winning community activist. In 1980, she organized a regional Earth Day Fair and interviewed Denis Hayes, the national coordinator of Earth Day. She produced TV spots for the Virginia Renewable Energy Lobby and lecteur on solar energy. She was Citizen of the Year in 1991, and was awarded the Appreciation Pin from Girl Scouts of the USA.
Phone: 540-220-1384
Email: [email protected]
Ted Miller
Robin Mahonen
Robin is the daughter of two Big Apple musicians, one being the Grammy Nominated jazz trombonist Jimmy Knepper, and the other a jazz trumpeter with the touring band "The Sweethearts of Rhythm". Having these parents has always meant that music has been an important part of her life. She played her first gigs as a teenager in a NY coffeehouse. Robin holds a BA from Hunter College, and an MSW from Adelphi University, and was proud to have been certified and licensed as a Social Worker in three states, working with diverse populations in this capacity.
She later became part of the duet, "Uncle Eddie and Robin" as a vocalist and guitarist, performing music for over twenty years in multiple states at a wide variety of venues both big and small. Robin is also a songwriter, and she and Uncle Eddie produced and released two CD's, one in West Virginia, "When We're Together", and one in Florida, "With a Lot of Help from Our Friends". She continues to play music, and is honored to be a part and told stories for the St. Augustine Tale Tellers.
Phone: (304) 639-55388
Email: [email protected]
Lou Novak
Lou is a part time mariner and artist, sometimes actor, and storyteller. His stories began around campfires as a young Scout and expanded further on long watches, underway on ships. He believes our stories make tangible the tapestry of our lives and give dimension to mere narrative when told properly. Performances include: Story District, Better Said Than Done, DC Perfect Liars Club, Armed Service Arts Partnership, and libraries.
Phone: (703) 622-6271
Email: [email protected]
Bob Patterson
Bob Patterson is an award-winning singer/songwriter and environmentalist. His achievements include two Best of Florida songs, the Annette J. Bruce Lifetime Achievement Award for storytelling, and The Mother Earth and Fellow Man Award from The Stetson Kennedy Foundation that recognizes performers and composers whose lives and works have reflected their concern for the environment or human rights and traditional culture.
Phone: 904-315-9957
Email: [email protected]
Annette Petrick
Annette Petrick hosts Consider This, a weekly show touching moments of reflection and inspiration through dozens of stories in a 90 second episode as broadcast on radio. Initially a prize-winning association management professional, Annette later became a consultant, speaker and strategist, working with trade associations and professional societies from Canada to California. For ten years, she wrote a 5 Minute Marketing column in Logistics Journal, published by the Transportation Intermediaries Association.
Phone: 540-270-9016
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://considerthisradioshow.com/
Joyce Sabato
Joyce is an accomplished storyteller, musician and educator. Her stories and songs reach a wide variety of age groups. Formerly President of Tale Tellers of St. Augustine and a board member on the Board of Directors for the Florida Storytellers Association, Joyce is an educator now living in Massachusetts. She continues to be involved in storytelling associations and now serves as the Vice President of the New Hampshire Storytelling Alliance and Event Coordinator. Occasionally, she performs in Florida and other states.
Phone: 603-548-7268
Email: [email protected]
Rita Saker
A retired teacher and librarian, Rita has entertained young and old alike. Her vivacious personality and way with words will have you sitting at the edge of your seat. With her bilingualism and sidekick puppets, Rita will keep you captivated with tales from around the world.
Phone: 904-325-2612
Email: [email protected]
Drew Sappington
Drew has worked a variety of odd jobs—at least they seemed odd to him. These include college professor, pest control guy, ward administrator in a mental hospital, researcher, bouncer at a teenage nightclub, and clinical psychologist. He is a member of the Tale Tellers of St. Augustine, and performs in theaters, at folk festivals, and most anywhere people will sit still.
Phone: 904-797-2025
Email: [email protected]
Storytelling Sims
Wayne and Jane Sims
Humorists, Historians, Tandem Tellers
Phone: 904-823-7969
Email: [email protected]
Media Mention:
The Sims: World War II Stories
Rose van der Berg
Rose van der Berg is a professional storyteller and award-winning teaching artist. She studied storytelling with Elizabeth Ellis and Viola Spolin’s theater game facilitation techniques and story theater with improv pioneer and co-founder of Chicago’s The Second City, Paul Sills. She’s often described as a gifted, dynamic teller and teacher.
Phone: 407-462-3557
Email: [email protected]
Debra Weller
Debra Weller, Storyteller with guitar and song, presents interactive storytelling concerts. She has performed in many states and internationally. Through lively telling of participatory folk, original tales and folksongs, she engages and delights audiences of all ages. Her work with children includes afterschool storytelling clubs and summer storytelling camps.
For adults she presents workshops, seminars, docent training and living history, character development. She loves to help families write family history stories to preserve and bring memories to life. Debra can customize a program for a particular theme or holiday. Her repertoire includes performing as Mrs. Santa Claus at holiday events.
Phone: 949-295-7634
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://story-tellingcourses.com
