Diane will be leading Storytelling Workshops for the third grade students of the Marsh Grammar School in Methuen, MA! Retelling a folktale is part of the English core curriculum and with Diane’s follow-up workshop, students will gain all the tools … Continue reading
Diane presents her workshop "Forbidden Stories" on Friday, July 27th at 8:30 pm as part of the National Storytelling Summit in Kansas City, MO. The theme of the conference is "Communities, Conflicts, and Transformational Stories," and Diane's workshop focuses on … Continue reading
Learn how to tell a folktale in your words in this interactive workshop! Diane leads workshop participants in group exercises that will develop everyone’s expressive abilities. Explore your voice’s potential and learn how to create a character using Diane’s method … Continue reading
Storyteller Diane Edgecomb’s unique vocal and physical training helps us to strengthen the connection between the imagination and the voice, increasing its flexibility, authenticity, expressiveness, range and resonance.
Storyteller Diane Edgecomb’s unique vocal and physical training helps us to strengthen the connection between the imagination and the voice, increasing its flexibility, authenticity, expressiveness, range and resonance.
Diane presents two interactive workshops for after school staff at this popular conference. Topics include: Tell Me a Story- on the art of telling a story and Storytelling and the Art of Play - motivating children to tell their own tales.
Diane will have the pleasure of leading a workshop on voice, the body and performance with acting students from the Department of Theatre at Smith College.
This four week residency enhances third grade students' narrative abilities. An approved artist educator on the roster of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Diane knows that an immersion in storytelling develops within each person clear and concrete communication skills. Her residencies stress vocal range and flexibility, active listening skills, visualization, and the ability to frame intangible feelings into physical and vocal language. These residencies skillfully develop young students’ expressive and imaginative abilities within the narrative form.
This four week residency enhances third grade students' narrative abilities. An approved artist educator on the roster of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Diane knows that an immersion in storytelling develops within each person clear and concrete communication skills. Her residencies stress vocal range and flexibility, active listening skills, visualization, and the ability to frame intangible feelings into physical and vocal language. These residencies skillfully develop young students’ expressive and imaginative abilities within the narrative form.
This four week residency enhances third grade students' narrative abilities. An approved artist educator on the roster of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Diane knows that an immersion in storytelling develops within each person clear and concrete communication skills. Her residencies stress vocal range and flexibility, active listening skills, visualization, and the ability to frame intangible feelings into physical and vocal language. These residencies skillfully develop young students’ expressive and imaginative abilities within the narrative form.
This four week residency enhances third grade students' narrative abilities. An approved artist educator on the roster of the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Diane knows that an immersion in storytelling develops within each person clear and concrete communication skills. Her residencies stress vocal range and flexibility, active listening skills, visualization, and the ability to frame intangible feelings into physical and vocal language. These residencies skillfully develop young students’ expressive and imaginative abilities within the narrative form.
In this intergenerational storytelling workshop, we’ll play with the basics of storytelling: learning how to re-tell a classic folktale in our own words and exploring storytelling games that help us discover anecdotes from our own life to share.
Diane will be artist in residence for the week of March 16th-24th at First Church Boston as part of their acclaimed Art & Spirit series. At the Sunday service on March 17th she will be joined by Kurdish musician Andrew Mazlum Aytac on saz.
Would you like more expressive tools in your paintbox? Come explore a whole range of new ways to enhance your storytelling and spoken word art in this interactive workshop that tunes up all of our expressive tools.
Diane brings her innovative workshop on nature and environmental storytelling to the National Storytelling Network conference and summit this July. The 2019 Summit is a great chance to see some fabulous performances, award-winning keynote speakers and participate in a variety of workshops over a four day period, conducted by the “cream-of-the-crop” of storyteller presenters. The best storytelling conference around! Don't miss it!! Registration is now open! Take a quick look at the schedule of events HERE! https://storynet.org/nsnevents/conference/general-conference-schedule
A Master class in Dialogue and Characterization! Spend an afternoon delving into characterization and dialogue in the best way possible- through playful exercises that open up the imagination and activate expressive tools.
Discover the true power inherent in folktales, fairy tales and myths while learning how to creatively adapt them for contemporary audiences in this three-part workshop. Each session opens by tuning up our expressive tools with precise explorations in Voice, Characterization, Narration and Movement so that the instrument we use to tell will be as humming as our interpretations.
Discover the true power inherent in folktales, fairy tales and myths while learning how to creatively adapt them for contemporary audiences in this three-part workshop. Each session opens by tuning up our expressive tools with precise explorations in Voice, Characterization, Narration and Movement so that the instrument we use to tell will be as humming as our interpretations.
Discover the true power inherent in folktales, fairy tales and myths while learning how to creatively adapt them for contemporary audiences in this three-part workshop. Each session opens by tuning up our expressive tools with precise explorations in Voice, Characterization, Narration and Movement so that the instrument we use to tell will be as humming as our interpretations.
Diane helps participants bring the power of the spoken word alive when reading favorite texts. Especially geared for teachers, librarians that lead story hour and parents who wish to establish a nighttime tradition of reading stories to their children, Diane helps everyone discover the flexibility and fun in their voice, in the process enlivening reading and learning for all who listen.
This four week school residency is all Virtual and 100% fun! Diane visits Kindergarten and First grade classrooms at Edgewood School in Bristol, Connecticut during the months of November and December to bring Language arts ALIVE with interactive storytelling and story-making ideas.
This four week school residency is all Virtual and 100% fun! Diane visits Kindergarten and First grade classrooms at Edgewood School in Bristol, Connecticut during the months of November and December to bring Language arts ALIVE with interactive storytelling and story-making ideas.
This one hour workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals
of storytelling. Using anecdotes, theory and participatory
exercises, Diane gives the group tools that will help them utilize the power of story in their lives and practices.
Diane takes a full-frontal dive into her real-life adventures as a singing wench at Boston's notorious Medieval Manor dinner theater in this unusual coming of age story. While waiting tables for her big break, Diane hustles swill-filled pitchers of beer and serves up a plethora of innuendos, plopping them right beside the French bread, while singing her heart out for bikers and bachelorette parties in the belly basement of this Boston landmark. Lots of communal fun as we join in the faux Medieval sing-a-longs and experience the great leveling power of “free alcohol on tap!”
Join Diane at the Connecticut Storytelling Conference and Festival. The weekend of April 29th and 30th we'll be live in downtown New London with great shows, workshops and more! Diane will be performing A Thousand Doorways and "Demons that Never Sleep" a performance of folktales
Diane shares tales of her time spent working with Zbigniew Cynkutis of Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre. The evening presentation will combine anecdotes from her time working with Cynkutis, never heard before audio of Cynkutis leading training sessions and excerpts from her … Continue reading
Whether you're East Coast, West Coast or International you're invited to join my pre-order and supporter party for "Source Work for Actors." I'll share anecdotes and stories from my upcoming book Source Work for Actors and give insight into the journey from the seminal workshop that took place in 1984 to the performance work RESTRAINTS which it generated. The Zoom gathering will include international guests, collaborators and friends of the project who've helped bring the book to fruition with their support. All are invited to attend! Free of charge though donations are accepted.
A Thousand Doorways follows author and storyteller Diane Edgecomb’s perilous quest to gather the folktales of the last Kurdish storytellers in Turkey. Aided by her Kurdish allies who bring humor and heart to every danger, this moving story humanizes the … Continue reading
Don't miss this celebratory in-person book launch! My newest book will be strutting its stuff at this rare in-person event. I'll read excerpts from Source Work for Actors and share behind the scenes stories PLUS preview—for the first time— rare audio of Cynkutis leading training sessions. There'll be special guests and time for a lively Q and A at the end. Oh yes- Refreshments and Good Cheer to Celebrate the culmination of this amazing multi-year project.
Don't forget to bring a pre-ordered copy of the book or buy one at the event. Books will be for available for sale AND for signing!
To accompany the book release of Source Work for Actors- Diane's solo work RESTRAINTS will be released in Video format at Capitol Movie Theatre #6 204 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA. Filmed by Austin DeBeche- this one hour premiere vividly captures the drama of this unforgettable one-woman show.
After the Video showing, Diane will speak on creating a devised work utilizing tasks and processes inspired by Cynkutis a leading actor with Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre and documented in Source Work for Actors: In Workshop with Zbigniew Cynkutis of Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre. There will be time for Q and A.
Diane's empowering one-woman show shines light on the many ways we can find our way home to the wonder of the natural world. From the true North of Rachel Carson’s life work and the remote beauty of the Maine cottage where she wrote Silent Spring to channeling powerful memories of our own key nature experiences, this performance brings to life the Sense of Wonder Rachel wrote about so movingly at the end of her life. Free and Open to the Public!
