Bio Susan Stone
Susan Stone is a professional storyteller and teaching artist. She shares with an open heart, world folklore, Jewish, and personal stories for adults and children. She has taught improv, acting, story theatre, and served on the adjunct faculty of National-Louis University. Her recordings have garnered Parents' Choice Gold, Storytelling World, and NAPPA Gold Awards. Major performances include: Chicago YIVO: Summer Festival of Yiddish Culture, IL Storytelling Festival, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Children's Humanities Festival, and at festivals in Warsaw, Lodz and Lublin, Poland. Most recently Susan has offered workshops at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library, The Illinois Holocaust Museum, and Hands of Peace (Jewish/Israeli/Palestinian teens). Susan tours the country with "Sisters of Story", an interfaith storytelling troupe. She is also a docent at the IL Holocaust Museum where she helps train docents in storytelling.