Julie Pasqual

Julie Pasqual is a self proclaimed “creativity junky” whose first art form was dance. After graduating from New York City’s High School of Performing Arts, she danced and sang in numerous musicals across the country and Off Broadway. She has acted in everything from Shakespeare to the work of young playwrights in NYC high schools. Along the way she learned stilt walking, clowning, American Sign Language, and how to tell stories. Her storytelling work encompasses all her skills as a performing artist, as she brings every aspect of a story to life. Her stories have been heard in such venues as the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the New Jersey Storytelling Festival, and in schools, libraries, bookstores, hospitals, radio and private events across the tri-state area. As an artist for Hospital Audiences Incorporated, Julie performs in halfway houses, drug rehabilitation centers and senior citizen homes. She is also the voice for several children‚s and young adult audio books for the Andrew Heiskill Library for the Blind and Handicapped in NYC. When not telling tales she can be found performing as a dancer in shows across the country and as a clown doctor for the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, entertaining children in NYC hospitals.

Performances:

Folktales from around the World (1-5)

African and Afro-American Folktales (1-5)

Another Language: Stories incorporating American Sign Language (1-5)

Wisdom Stories: Tales with a gentle message (1-5)

Workshops:

Move it! Movement in storytelling workshop (all ages)

Talk the Talk! A how-to-begin-to-tell workshop (teachers, parents, care-givers)

Imagine That! A storytelling and theatre game-based imagination and expression workshop (all ages)