Susan Danoff

Founding Director, Storytelling Arts, Inc.

Susan Danoff has loved stories all her life and began exploring the art of storytelling in 1979. She has an extensive repertoire of international folktales and literary stories and has performed at numerous schools, libraries, museums, and festivals including several Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festivals, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian, and the International Children’s Festival at Wolf Trap. Susan has produced three audio cassette tapes: Enchantments, The Invisible Way: Stories of Wisdom, and Women of Vision. For five years Susan worked with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Artists-in-Education Program. This program included performing and teaching storytelling and writing workshops in residencies of four to thirty days throughout New Jersey. Since 1986 Susan has taught an intensive week-long summer workshop for adults in The Art of Storytelling, and she has also taught storytelling to undergraduates at Princeton University, for docents at the Princeton University Art Museum, for the Friends Council on Education, in the School of Education at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, and at numerous teacher in-services. From 1985-1992 Susan taught “The Craft of Writing” at Princeton University. Susan earned a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, an M.A. in English from Rutgers University, and an English Teaching Credential from the University of California, Berkeley.

Performances for large or small groups:

Stories of Wisdom, Humor, and Enchantment fromAround the World (K-12)

Enchantments (K-12)

Of Giants and Small Folk (K-2)

The Invisible Way: Stories of Wisdom (3-12)

Women of Vision (3-12)

Native American Stories (3-12)

Stories from Asia (3-12)

Stories from the Middle East (3-12)

Teachers and Learners (for teachers)

Teacher workshops