45, 60 Or 90 Minutes - Customized To Audience Age And Venue. With Or Without Costume And Simple Set.

Dracula

A tour-de-force, one-woman performance of the original novel.

The vampire story that shocked the world! Experience the gothic thrill of Bram Stoker’s masterpiece by actress and storyteller Megan Wells’ in her powerful and elegantly horrific one-woman show. Winner of the Chicago theatre community’s prestigious Joseph Jefferson Award, storyteller Megan Wells is a master of the long form storytelling genre and, in the telling of DRACULA, she crafts a chilling performance.

You'll see Mina Harker not as a victim, but as a heroine who understands that we are, each of us, one bite away from the Vampire Hunger.

Megan Wells combines the worlds of theater, writing, and storytelling. As a national award-winning Story Performer, Megan has been touring her epic story experiences while continuing to explore the gifts of story within the theater arts. Megan seeks to engage the dynamic gifts of theater with the imaginal intimacy unique to oral narrative

Wings Of Love

From the greco-roman myth of psyche and eros.

Helen’s Troy

The Mythic/Historic Trojan War.

Mozart’s Sister

Maria Anna Mozart Telling Her Family Story.

Maura’s Eyes

An Irish Girl's Experience Of Ellis Island.

Firebird!

Set In Sweden As a Myth Of The Midnight Sun.

Scheherazade

A storyteller heals her king with stories of arabian nights.

The Speckled Band

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s favorite Sherlock Holmes story as told by Helen Stoner, the main female character.

Daisy’s Gatsby

If Daisy Buchanan had written the tale.

Saint And Sultan

St. Francis Meets The Sultan Of Egypt During The Fifth Crusade.

According To Magdalene

The Journey From Thursday To Sunday.

The Riddle Quest

The Arthurian Loathly Lady Found In The Canterbury Tales.

Any Length, Any Age -- Customized To Audience And Venue.

45, 60, 90 Minutes Programs Customized To Audience Age And Venue

Wizard Of Oz

By l. Frank Baum

Alice In Wonderland

By Lewis Caroll

The Canterville Ghost

By Oscar Wilde

Fisherman And His Soul

By Oscar Wilde

Dr. Jekyl And Mr. Hyde

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Oliver

By Charles Dickens

The Ugly Duckling

By Hans Christian Anderson

Mr. Ice Cold

By Gahan WilsonBaum

Single Stories Or a Full Program For Teen And Adult Audiences; as Artistic Director of the Ray Bradbury Storytelling Festival I have been granted rights to tell his work.

Dandelion Wine

The Lonely One, Lime Vanilla Ice, Alive!, Cream Sponge Para-Lightfoot Tennis Shoes, Statues, Time Machine

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Mr. Dark, The Dust Witch

Other Shorts

Bless Me Father, The Screaming Woman, Death And The Maiden

Single Stories Or Full Program Customized To Audience Age And Venue

Thom's Dream

A Friend Has a Visionary Dream

Sanctuary

An Elephant Comes Home

Mouseling

a Mouse In The House

Mountain Stars

Family Vacation, 1968

Clam Chowder

A Martha's Vineyard Anniversary

M&M's

Explaining The Birds And The Bees

You Don't Need Much

Papa's Advice

Eagles

Falling In Love On The Wing

Step On a Crack

You'll Break Your Mother's Back

An Owl Wing And An Apple Tree

A Long Way Home Again

Red Boot

The Great Chicago Snowstorm Of 1967

Helianthus

Eloping To A Field Of Sunflowers

In The Cave

What Forgiveness Can Do

Rabbits And Tulips

And Then There Was Hannah

Anuerysm

What I Can't Get Out Of My Head

The Lord's Wife

Oh, She, With The Long, Long Hair

Customized To Audience Age And Venue

Lavinia Nebbs

Through The Midnight Ravine.

The Derelict

a Mysterious Ship Of Mould.

Mr. Ice Cold

Here Comes The Ice Cream Man.

Marley's Murderers

All Night In The Wax Museum.

Skeleton Woman

She's Insatiable.

Dr. Jekyl And Mr. Hyde

What Lurks Beneath The Surface.

Queen Morgause

Boiling The Cat.

Sister Catherine Mary

What Happened In The Churchyard.

Monkey's Paw

Be Careful What You Wish For.

Single Stories For Worship Or Religious Education Programs

• Esther
• The Samaritan Woman
• Joseph's Nativity
• Mary's Joy
• The Woman At The Well
• Priscilla And The Early Church
• Paul's Conversion
• Noah
• The Last Supper
• Mary Magdalene

45 To 60 Minutes Story Programs With Music — Great For Schools, Club, Libraries And Historical Societies

Fire In Boomtown

… A Story/Musical About The Great Chicago Fire Of 1871 Parent’s Choice Best 25 Of 25 Years, 2005; Parent’s Choice Gold, 1999; The Association Of Educational Publishers (Ed Press) Distinguished Achievement, 1999

All Aboard!

… a Story/Musical About The Transcontinental Railroad.

Island Of Hope

… a Story/Musical About The Ellis Island Experience.

Customized To Audience And Venue

Lime Vanilla Ice

With Storyteller Jim May

Elephants

With Storyteller Jim Pfitzer

Song Of Dupage

With the Glen Ellyn’s Children’s Chorus

Beauty/Beast

With Storyteller Loren Niemi

Nordic Wolf

With Chicago a cappela

With Pianist Chris Garofalo

60 Minute Programs - Requires a Piano At Venue. Historical Characters Can Include a Q&A With Character (In Costume With Simple Set) With Or Without Costume And Simple Set

Mozart's Sister

Maria Anna Mozart Tells The Story Of Her Family

On Loving Robert

Clara Schumann Confides a Very Difficult Decision.

Leaving Chopin

George Sand Describes And Defends Her Romance.

The Hands Of Liszt

Princess Caroline Was Never Allowed To Marry Her Franz.

Two Shots To The Breast

Lilly Texier Was So Madly In Love With Claude Debussy.

In Costume With Simple Set - Can Include a Q&A With Character

Eleanor Roosevelt

On Discovering How To Be Useful

Hilary Clinton

Speech At The Un Women’s Conference In Beijing

Juliette Low

The Formation Of The Girlscouts

Scheherazade

The Key To Healing a King.

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