Sarah Brady is a storyteller, teaching artist, and writer whose backgrounds in theatre and education influence her storytelling. She’s told stories in the US and UK, where she lived for three years. She tells historical, traditional, literary, and personal tales and was a New Voice Featured Teller at the 50th Annual National Storytelling Festival in 2022 and a Teller in Residence at the International Storytelling Center in 2024. Passionate about stories that help us see each other and the world around us, she specializes in finding the heart of each story she tells.

Simon Brooks, an award-winning British storyteller, has been entrancing audiences for 20 years. His tales, both live (in-person or virtual) and his award-winning recordings, contain everything from humour to pathos, all with a wink and smile. He invites all to investigate & to become fascinated with Story as he drops you into tales so vividly you would think you were somewhere else. Simon has performed at hundreds of schools, colleges, libraries, and festivals including the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN, Teller in Residence at the ISC, and the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival in Utah, amongst others. Find him at SimonBrooksStoryteller.com (Diamondscree.com).

Sara deBeer In the summer of 1978, after having taken courses in folklore during her freshman and sophomore years at Yale University, Sara worked for a library outreach program in Albany, NY, telling stories to kids in city parks and housing projects. Under the sponsorship of the Bates Fellowship, a Yale summer grant, Sara deBeer spent the summer of 1980 studying storytelling traditions in Ireland. After returning home, she began working as a storyteller and hasn't stopped since! In addition to schools, Sara performs for audiences in senior centers, service clubs, churches and temples, libraries, retirement communities, local theaters and home concerts.

Bruce Marcus is a storyteller from Malden, MA who likes to watch his bird feeders almost as much as does his cat.

Jennifer Munro is the Recipient of the National Storytelling Network’s Circle of Excellence Award. She tells original stories about rogues and heroes that resonate with the frailty and courage of the human condition. Jennifer has performed at the National Festival and the Timpanogos Festival. Her most recent project, a tour-de force performance of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, has been hailed by critics as “dazzling and spellbinding”.

Lani Peterson is a parent, psychologist, coach, and storyteller that has searched for ways to support the development of values, insight, and understanding of both herself and others. Lani believes that as we understand our own stories and bear witness to the stories told by others, we can transform our limitations through insight and acceptance, encourage integrity, and motivate inspired action and interaction. From CEO’s to scientists, doctors, mental health providers, ministers, the incarcerated and the homeless, she has worked to help people find and share the stories that will open doors within and between storytellers and listeners alike.

Jo Radner has been studying, teaching, telling, and collecting stories most of her life. After retiring from American University as professor emerita, she returned to Maine as a freelance storyteller and oral historian. She is past president of the American Folklore Society and the National Storytelling Network.

Valerie Tutson has been telling stories in schools, churches, libraries, festivals and conferences since 1991. She draws her stories from around the world with an emphasis on African traditions. Her repertoire includes stories and songs she learned in her travels to South Africa, her experiences in West Africa, stories from African American history. In addition, she is gaining quite a reputation for her exciting retelling of age-old Bible stories.

 Luther D. Isler, poetically known as THE ARTIST ANUBIS, is a spoken word artist, cultural curator, and community cultivator: telling personal yet universal stories through poetry, hip-hop, and theatre while creating space for others to do the same. In 2021, The Artist Anubis published his first poetry anthology entitled, “My People Burn and Other Visions.” Anubis started The Bomb Squad Mentorship Program for writing and performance skills. He received an AUDELCO Award for his “Special Achievements” - keeping the multi-faceted Harlem literary legacy alive.