"She is diagonally parked in a parallel world."
Barbara McBride-Smith, Emcee, 1999 Winter Tales Festival, Oklahoma City

Resume

Vast repertoire of song, poetry, chant, and story
Bilingual in Spanish and English: artistically, socially, and in day-to-day living 23 years teaching music and stories to children in classrooms and performance Know what it means to teach children through theatre, language, song and movement Seven years focused work of building community at The Walden School, CA

Most Recent Position: Storyteller in Residence at the Walden School, Pasadena, Ca (1998 - 2007)

EDUCATION
M. F. A. in acting, Florida State/ Asolo Conservatory for Professional Actor Training
B. A. in theater, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL

Further Study

Teaching Artist Training-We Tell Stories, Los Angeles, CA (2006)
Orff Schulwerk Level I-San Francisco School (2006)
Music Center Education Summer Institute (2006)
Music Center Teaching Artist Seminar - Los Angeles, CA (2004, 2006)
Storytelling with Laura Simms (1986-2003)
Shambhala Training (1994 - 2001)
Dharma Art Training (1998, 2001, 2006, 2008)
Dharma Art Teacher Training 2006, 2007, 2008
Miksang: Photography Levels I, II (2002, 2004)
Roy Hart Voice Theatre Workshop (1999)
Storytelling with Susan Klein (91-94)
Storytelling with Milbre Burch (88 - 98)
Pacific School of Religion with Dr. Margie Brown, Ph.D. (89-93)

GRANTS and AWARDS

• California Arts Council / Artist In Schools Grantee at The Walden School 2000-2003
• Parents Choice Honors Award/ "Sandburg Out Loud" 2002
• NAPPA Gold Award / "Dreams and Other Realities" 1997
• Nebraska Arts Council Grant: Artist in Residence (85-86): (Emmy Gifford Children's Theatre, Omaha, NE)
• Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council (AIS): 1983-1985, (AIC): 1996, 1991
• Lincoln Center Aesthetic Education Institute (Tulsa, OK) 1984-85, 1989-90: (Performance Tour of two-person show: "The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe.”)

AUDIO RECORDINGS:

• Sandburg Out Loud, 2002
• Dreams and Other Realities, 1996, Second edition - 2004

ROSTERS & THEATRE AFFILIATIONS

• Getty Storytelling Project - Dosso Dossi: An Allegory of Fortune 2004-2009
• Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County: Artists on
  Tour Roster (1988 - )
• Children’s Creative Project, Santa Barbara County (1992- )
• Arts Foundation of San Bernardino Roster (1987- 2005)
• Riverside Arts Foundation Roster (1987- )
• Idaho Theatre for Youth: Actor, Solo touring Outreach Artist (81-83)
• Theatre Tulsa: Actor, Director, and Outreach Artist (84-86)
• Emmy Gifford Children's Theatre: Actor, Outreach Artist (86-87)
• Victor Valley Community College: Director,
  The Good Doctor by Neil Simon (1986)
  The Arkansas Bear by Aurand Harris (1987)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
National Storytelling Network, Healing Arts Storytelling Group
Storytelling Association of Alta California
ASCAP

SELECTED PERFORMING CREDITS

Storytelling Festivals: Featured Storyteller

Featured Teller at 25th, 31st Annual National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, TN;
Oklahoma City, OK; Midland, TX; Selma, AL; Asheville, Durham, N.C.; Indianapolis, IN; Elko and Reno NV; Ogden and Provo, Utah; Minneapolis, MN; Omaha, NE; Chicago, IL; St. Louis, MO; Cherokee, Atlanta, Georgia; Port Angeles, WA.

In CA: Solvang, San Juan Capistrano, Nevada City, Mariposa, Calabasas, Claremont, Bay Area, Trinidad (1991-2006)

In US:
Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, Indiana, Nevada, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Georgia

Featured Performer at other Venues:

The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Wichita Children's Theatre Festival, American Theatre Association National Conference, MN; Indianapolis Children's Museum, Lincoln Theatre, Fort Collins; Oregon Playful Learning Conference, Corvallis, OR Tulsa Mayfest, International Storytelling Center, TN

SELECTED TEACHING CREDITS

Buffalo Gap Song and Dance Camp, W.V.; USD Storytelling Series - San Diego, CA; National Storytelling Network Annual Conference 1998,1999, 2003; University of Phoenix, CA Riverside Storytellers Guild, Riverside, CA; The Armory, Pasadena, CA; Teaching Assistant to Laura Simms at the 18th – 21st Annual Laura Simms Storytelling Residency; Oregon Teachers of English; Banquet of Short Courses, Oregon State. (1983-2006)

RESIDENCIES:

Pasadena, CA (1998 – 2007) Walden School;
Tulsa Oklahoma (87-91): Irving Middle School, Norman, OK;
Various Elementary Schools in Edmund, Muscogee, and Tulsa, OK.

Inland Empire, CA (87-92): Redlands High School, Elementary Schools in Crestline, Running Springs, Oro Grande, Rialto, Fontana, CA

Performance tours in Arizona, Idaho; New Orleans, LA; Cleveland, Ohio; Brevard & Winston Salem, Mars Hill, NC; Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana, Utah.

OUTREACH ARTIST IN RESIDENCE:

We Tell Stories, Los Angeles, CA
Emmy Gifford Children’s Theatre, Omaha, NE
Theatre Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Idaho Theatre for Youth, Boise, ID

"My love
of rhythm, language, song,
and a juicy story

Is the breath,
(the wind in the sails)

For performances... (the boat)

That celebrates the magic
In the ordinary world,

The poetry in the moment,
The song in the story
The timing of a journey
on the pages, sea?
Song is the water for the story boat."
Angela Lloyd