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From fairies to ghosts to historical women, Storyteller Joanna Demarest will take you on an adventure as she spins tales old and new. Joanna delights, enchants, touches, inspires, and motivates her audiences as she takes them on journeys to fascinating places, helping them to understand what has gone before and seeing what the future may hold. Joanna has been telling stories to children and adults for over 30 years. It all started when after reading every book on her daughter's bookshelf, multiple times, she wanted something new, so she started creating fresh stories of her own. This passion for sharing her stories has been fueled by her nineteen moves within the US and overseas as well as her four years traveling the country living full-time in her RV home on wheels. Joanna specializes in Historical Character Interpretation, American, Historical, Traditional and Southern Tales, Ghost Stories, Storytelling Workshops, Nature and Campfire Programs and her own unique Ladybug Stories®. In describing her performances, Joanna states, "I love watching an audience be enveloped by a story watching them travel with me through the landscape of words that create the images of the tale. It is so much fun to hold the listeners in my hands, watching them use their imagination to "see" the events unfolding. My audiences have enjoyed wonderful tales of the past, present and future, having moments of laughter, times when they might sigh, learn a moral, or even jumped in fright." Joanna is dedicated to providing quality entertainment that is delivered in a personalized and highly interactive environment. She has performed and presented storytelling workshops from Seattle to Boston to Florida. For the past two years, Joanna was the resident storyteller at the Barberville Pioneer Settlement performing, not only historical stories and for special events for the patrons, but also 1 st person performances as the scandalized Lucretia Underhill. While living in Pennsylvania she appeared frequently at the Depreciation Lands Museum in Allison Park, PA as a historical character interpreter, in personally hand-made period attire, bringing history alive and telling the stories of what life was like for a woman on the frontier in the late 1700's. Joanna has performed and/or presented workshops at the Florida Storytelling Festival, the Kentucky Storytelling Festival, Northlands Storytelling Festival, Sharing the Fire, The Heinz History Center, at The Three Rivers Storytelling Festival, The Pittsburgh International Children's Festival, Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, Beaver Tales Storytelling Festival, The Ellwood City Storytelling Festival, CitiParks' Alphabet Trails and Tails, The National Storytelling Network's National Conference Regional Showcase, and numerous libraries, tea shops, open mics, summer camps, concerts and for senior groups around Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New England, Washington & Florida. Joanna is a member of the National Storytelling Association. She was the producer of the 2013 & 2014 Three Rivers Storytelling Festivals, a previous member of the National Storytelling Network's Special Interest Group - YES! The Youth, Educators and Storytellers Alliance, the Florida Storytelling Association, StorySwap, the Pittsburgh Storytelling Group, the West Virginia Storytelling Guild, LANES -The League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling, and the Western Pennsylvania's StoryWorks Storytelling Guild in Murrysville, PA. |
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