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Treasured Tellers
Bill Higley
Bill Higley has told stories for tens of thousands of kids for almost 40 years. He graduated from WSU in Theater Arts and taught at Weber High School. Bill has shared
stories and pantomimes at the library, the Treehouse Children's Museum, and the Bookshelf Bookstore among other places. Bill received the Karen J. Ashton Award for a
lifetime achievement in storytelling.
Anneliese Konkol
1924-2012
Anneliese was born in Germany, near the Polish border. She learned
the art of storytelling as her mother told stories to reassure children
in bomb shelters during World War II. For over five decades, Anneliese
shared the magic of storytelling with audiences of 10 to 1,000. Her
honors include the Karen J. Ashton Storytelling Award, the Spirit of the
American Woman Award, and the Crystal Crest Personality of the Year
Award. She also founded the Festival's Bilingual Voices, an annual
event.
Virginia Rasmussen
Virginia Rasmussen sure knows how to capture an audience. She has been a presenter at our Festival each and every year. In 2009, she received the Karen J. Ashton Storytelling Award.
She spins her tales at senior centers, schools, festivals and libraries. Virginia also holds workshops on the art and belongs to the Utah Storytelling Guild.
Utah Storytellers
Laurie Allen
Laurie Allen entertains with American folktales and beyond and ghostly encounters. Laurie has worked with the Ogden and Salt Lake City Ghost Tours since its inception. She teaches at Doxey Elementary School, has grandchildren, and has acted on local theater stages.
Cassie Ashton
Cassie Howard Ashton has told stories for 20+ years and uses the power of stories in her work as a transformational coach. Stories have the ability to reach the depths of our unconscious and allow us to see what can’t easily be seen.
Cathy Barker
Cathy Barker has a passion for nature and making magical storytelling moments. She is a member of the Utah Storytelling Guild and the Park City
Performing Arts Foundation. She received the Park City Toastmasters Club Competent Communicator Award.
Julie Barnson
Julie Barnson has always been a storyteller, she just didn’t know it. She attended a Storytelling class at BYU and learned you could be a storyteller. She is one of the leaders for the Salt Lake City youth teller chapter and a story guide for the Salt Lake City Ghost tours.
Karl Behling
Karl Behling has been tickling, teasing and pleasing audiences for over 20 years with his original children's stories, tall tales, Mountain Man lore
and folktales. Karl is a teacher, storyteller, author and the Utah Storytelling Guild President.
Daniel Bishop, the Storyteller
Daniel Bishop, the Storyteller, can spook campers, spin yarns, and tell tales of discoveries that involve magic, talking animals, and mysterious figures. A theater education helps him seize our imagination. He expresses his passion for the oldest of all entertainments—the story.
David Bullock
David Bullock has been a professional storyteller for over 25 years and has performed at numerous storytelling festivals throughout the West. Raised in the Mine Camps of Utah, David is a retired Hard Rock Miner the same as his father and grandfather.
Cherie Davis
Cherie Davis is an engaging teller and has appeared on many programs throughout the West. She also taught storytelling in schools and lectured in universities. Once a child yelled “You rock!” at the end of her performance.
She heads an annual Story Camp for youth.
Suzanne Decaria
Suzanne Decaria promotes literacy through the arts by being a storyteller, writer and educator. She writes her own poems and stories that bring out the humor
in everyday situations. She firmly believes that you can educate as you entertain.
Joan Effiong
Joan Effiong tells stories from her childhood in Nigeria that teaches a lesson in comprehension and problem solving. In the last 10 years she has participated in many venues.
Joan has a master's degree from Brigham Young University in Communications.
Carol Esterreicher
Carol Esterreicher received the 2011 ORACLE award for Leadership and Service in the Western Region through the National Storytelling Network, especially for establishing storytelling on www.nowplayingutah.com. She is a Utah Storytelling Guild member famous for telling spoonerisms.
Stephen Gashler
Stephen Gashler uses his own material when he performs throughout Utah as a puppeteer and storyteller. He has been doing this for years with his wife, Teresa. He is the
author of the young adult fantasy novel "The Bent Sword".
Pamela Hanks
Pamela Hanks is humorous, energetic, and genuine. Her stories have elements of discovery in them that leave her listeners satisfied and energized. Her unique style holds our attention
whether she's talking about the Blarney Stone or having us act out a story.
Richard Hatch
Richard Hatch defies the laws of nature through his interactive deceptions. He has been featured at the Magic Castle in Hollywood and Eddie Murphy's New Year's Eve Party. He opened the Hatch Academy of Magic and Music in Logan with his wife, Rosemary Hatch.
Rachel Hedman
Rachel Hedman received a national storytelling award—Western Region—for service and leadership in 2012. She has traveled the country-side for 18+ years sharing stories. She is a soon-to graduate Storytelling Masters student specializing in adoption and foster care folktales.
Suzanne Hudson
Suzanne Hudson tells inspiring stories of discovery and adventure from Utah's past, often stepping into 1st person historical characters in the Chautauqua tradition. She is a member of
Utah Pioneer Heritage Arts and past president of the Utah Storytelling Guild.
Esther Phelps Jackson
Esther Phelps Jackson went into teaching and used storytelling to help her students with reading and writing. Esther has presented workshops in professional writing and photography.
She serves on the WSU Storytelling Festival Steering Committee.
Billie Jones
Billie Jones came from Southern roots and learned storytelling from her mother and grandmother. She is a stalwart Toastmasters International member as well as being a librarian and storyteller-in-residence at the Reid Private School in the Salt Lake Valley.
Kira Larkin
Kira Larkin is known for her creative balloon animals. She can often be found at the Salt Lake City Library on the weekends giving away her balloon creations. Kira also uses her creative skills to write stories and novels. She is a member of the Utah Storytelling Guild.
Kathleen Lund
Kathleen Lund earned an Associate's Degree from WSC (in her 20s) and a Bachelor's Degree from BYU (in her 60's). She was born in Kaysville, Utah and then traveled all over the world with her military husband Scott. She won the 2010 "Utah's Biggest Liar" contest.
George McEwan
George McEwan is armed with the experience of a misspent childhood and frequent international travel mishaps, and it’s hard to tell truth from the tall tales he spins. He currently is two-time winner of “Utah’s Biggest Liar” through the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival.
Jean Andra Miller
Jean Andra Miller shared legends and fables of French-speaking lands with her students when she taught French Studies at WSU for 34 years. She has received the Karen J. Ashton Storytelling Award.
She's one of our Bilingual Voices and serves on the Festival Committee. (BV-French)
Janine Nishiguchi
Janine Nishiguchi has tales to tickle your ears and engage each listener. She is past president of the Utah Storytelling Guild and children’s librarian. She started a youth storytelling festival in her local elementary and started a Davis County chapter of USG in 2012.
Katie Nuttall
Katie Nuttall is a dynamic ball of energy as she weaves together memorable and humorous folktales, personal stories, and songs. She will soon have her Storytelling Masters from East Tennessee
State University. She coaches a youth storytelling troupe.
Ginger Parkinson
Ginger Parkinson tells stories that whisk the imagination where it can romp around like a loose puppy. She spins curriculum-based stories at Freedom Academy Elementary School as their resident teller. She lives in Springville with her husband and four children.
Aleksa Poulter
Aleksa Poulter became a National Youth Storytelling Showcase finalist in 2013 and for the last seven years has told at this festival. She is an accomplished actress, successful fundraiser performer, and disguises herself as a High Honor 8th grade student.
Tamra Pratt
Tamra Pratt loves to create castles on the clouds through storytelling and writing. She uses her style and high energy to weave together fairy tales, personal tales, original tales, tall tales, and allegories to bring layered meaning and depth. Her words flow with varying tempos.
Holly Robison
Holly Robison will transport listeners to faraway lands and distant memories. Holly's favorite storytelling audience is her four children. She explored storytelling while completing her Theater degree at BYU and has since served as Utah Storytelling Guild Olympus Chapter President.
Sharon Rogers
Sharon Rogers recently moved to Utah and tells personal stories, critter tales, and Jack tales. She transports her listeners to the Appalachian Mountains where she grew up and her ancestors settled. Appalachia is the magical and mystical home of her characters.
Clive Romney
Clive Romney is an untiring advocate for the telling of pioneer stories through all the arts, and uses his arts, music and storytelling, to do just that. Clive makes his living as a record producer though more and more telling and singing at festivals.
René Sheets
René is famous for her yodeling stories. She comes back to us after five years- from China and back, Texas and back, Poland and back, and now Nephi and back. She loves teaching, sewing and growing a garden, but most of all she loves hearing, writing, and telling stories.
David Sidwell
David Sidwell has told stories all over the U.S. from New York to Long Beach from Chicago to New Orleans, but he enjoys telling stories in his home state of Utah best. He teaches Storytelling at Utah State University and is the President-Elect of the Utah Storytelling Guild.
Jan C. Smith
Jan C. Smith searched for an easy class to update her teaching credentials and stumbled on storytelling. She has performed ever since. Jan uses her flair for humor and her experience as a reading intervention specialist to inform her performances and workshops.
Nannette Watts
Nannette Watts embraces performing arts through her storytelling career, choreography background, and BFA in Music Dance Theatre from BYU. She is the Artistic Director for Resonance Story Theatre and Director of the National Youth Storytelling Showcase.
Sherrie West
Sherrie West is a supervising teacher in the Melba Lehner Children's School at WSU. She has many achievements from being an author to developing curriculum and speaking around the country.
She enjoys telling stories from children's books.
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