Past Performances: (sample)
National Storytelling Festival performed as part of exchange place – 2010
National Storytelling Network Conference, Los Angeles California A Fire in My Heart: A Storyteller’s Journey among the Kurds, 2010
Pontine Theatre, Portsmouth New Hampshire, A Celtic Evening- storytelling & Celtic harp, March 2010
Connecticut Storytelling Festival The Salmon of Wisdom and A Fire in My Heart 2009
Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, MA annual performances of Summer and Winter Solstice with Celtic harp accompaniment– 2000-2011
Museum of Science, Multi-Cultural Stories and Songs, 2004
Three Apples Storytelling Festival: Kurdish Tales and Music, September 2005
Center for the Arts, Natick MA: Deirdre of the Sorrows, March 2004
First Night, Boston: Deirdre of the Sorrows with harper Margot Chamberlain; December, 2004
Club Passim, Cambridge, MA, The Sanctuary Show: KURDISH TALES, June 2002
Kurdish Library and Museum: Telling Kurdish Tales stories from Iraqi-Kurdistan developed on commission & performed in New York with musical accompaniment – 2000
Three Apples Storytelling Festival: Three Apples Storytelling Festival Twilight of the Stones and Deirdre of the Sorrows 2000
Charlestown Working Theatre: The Winter Solstice in Legend and Song, Theatre Run in 1997
Three Apples Storytelling Festival; Old Apple Tree and New Age Gawain ’98
Old Vienna Kaffeehaus, Storytelling with Celtic harp 1996
MA Audubon Society, commissioned piece: “A Centennial Storytelling” 1996
Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge MA, A Celtic Evening 1996
Johnnycake Festival, RI, Storytelling and Workshop 1995; Ct. Storytelling Festival – 2000
Bread and Roses Festival, Lawrence, MA., Storytelling & Celtic Harp; 1994 &1995
New England Science Center; Storytelling Performances 1995 & 1996
Hobart and William Smith College, New York, Providence College, RI,& Pine Manor College
First Night Vermont ’90, First Night Worcester ’91 & ’94, First Night Boston ’93, 99, 00 &01 and more
Museum of Science, Boston; “Bear Tales” series, February vacation week, 1992
Double Edge Theatre, Mass. Tales of Love and Otherwise , February 1992
World Trade Center, Boston; Commissioned: Digging Dinosaurs, August 1991
Tour of Maryland and West Virginia; Fall of 1990, Tales for the Earth
Autumnal Equinox Festival, Garrett College, Md. 1990: Performances &Workshops
Habitat, Belmont, Mass: Ongoing storytelling concerts with harp 1986-1996
Storytellers In Concert, Tales of Earth and Spirit, April 1991
Stories After Dark, Irish Tales with Celtic Harp, March 1990
Me and Thee Coffeehouse; Celtic Tales and Songs, March 1989
Radio Appearances: Guest storyteller on National Public Radio’s “Living on Earth”, WGBH Spider’s Web, WMBR, WUMB, WADN, WERS, David Brudnoy Show & WBOS.
In 2011 Diane received the first National ORACLE award for Storytelling Excellence in the Northeast