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The Storytellers Logo, a floral painted tea cup on top of a stack of weathered books.

February 9, 2021 by

The First Folio Storytellers Series

February 9 through July 15

Curated by Melanie Keller
Original Music by Christopher Kriz

Streaming Online for FREE!
New videos added each month.

Join some of your favorite First Folio Artistic Associates as well as guest artists as they read a selection of short stories and poems chosen to help provide joy and illumination each month for holidays from Valentine’s Day to Mother’s Day and beyond. (National Potato Day, anyone?)

This series is made possible through the generosity of David and Susan Weidenfeld.

All videos will be posted on the First Folio YouTube channel. Be sure to click “SUBSCRIBE” so you’ll see all of the videos as they are released.

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Four First Folio Theatre alumni read Shakespearean limericks
Four First Folio Theatre alumni read Shakespearean limericks
Jill Mueller reads a speech by Marmee in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" for Mother's Day. She has short gray hair, pale skin, and is wearing a yellow sweater.
Jill Mueller reads a speech by Marmee in Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” for Mother’s Day
Ron Keaton reads "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Ron Keaton reads “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Belinda Bremner
Belinda Bremner reads “Planetarium” by Adrienne Rich
Alison Reeger Cook
Alison Reeger Cook reads “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
Heather Chrisler
Heather Chrisler shares her thoughts “On Yeats…On Leprechauns”
Robert Cornelius
Robert Cornelius shares his Reflections on Valentine’s Day
David Rice
David Rice read “The White Rose” by John Boyle O’Reilly

AND DON’T FORGET OUR BEDTIME TALES!

Bedtime Tale Logo; a little girl is sleeping in bed, dreaming of a rabbit in a blue coat and a orange cat in a black and green outfit.

Our Sponsors

The 2021-22 Season was sponsored by Susan & Alan Becker and Daniel Nowaczynski & Nancy Ziegler.

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