Resume - Robin Bady

Robin Bady, Storyteller

85 Chester Avenue, Brooklyn, NY  11218

h: 718-633-6651

c: 347.512.7685

robbady@gmail.com

Robin Bady, Storyteller

Storytelling: If not now, when?

Professional Experience

Teaching Artist (Select list)

Brooklyn Academy of Music, City Lore, New York City Ballet, Brooklyn Arts Council, Henry Street Settlement, Jamaica Arts Center, Queens Public Library, New York City Schools, Troy Schools, New York Public Library, Martin Buber Oberschule, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum of Art, City and Country School, ArtsConnection, Saratoga/Colonie Schools, Baldwin Schools, Brooklyn Friends School, Global Arts to Go, 

Storyteller

Solo Performer (Select list of venues)

Festivals:  Tejas Storytelling Festival, Clearwater Festival, First Annual Stone Soup (Cllnton, NY), Eastport Festival of the Arts (ME), Prospect Harbor Arts Festival (ME), Mohegan Storytelling Festival, Children’s Festival of the Arts

Theaters: Flushing Town Hall, Provincetown Playhouse, Cornelia Street Café, Milk and Cookies Stories (Dublin, Ireland), Portland Story Theater, Soho Playhouse, Flushing Town Hall

Museums: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum of Art, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Children’s Museum  of New York, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Please Touch Museum (PA), Museum of American Folk Art

Tellebrations:  New York City Tellebration, Jersey Shore Tellebration

Schools: Bank Street School of Education, Hanson Place Child Development Center, the Martin Buber Oberschule/Berlin, Germany, Rodeph Shalom, Our Lady of Lourdes, NYC schools, etc.

Libraries: Berlin and Spandau,(Germany), New York City, Midyork, Fingerlakes, Onadaga County, Pennsylvania, Suffolk, Nassau, Ithaca Counties, Westchester etc.

Arts Centers: 92nd Street YM-YWHA, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Schoodic Arts Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Sag Harbor Center

Religious Congregations:  Congregation Beth Elohim, United Universalist Congregation of Southampton, Congregation Beth Miriam, etc.

Parks:  Central Park Conservancy(NYC), Prospect Park Conservancy/Lefferts Homestead (Brooklyn), Southampton Recreational Center, Westchester Parks for Earth Day, Wycoff Homestead (Brooklyn)

House Concerts: NYC, Phildadelphia, Rochester NH

Spoken Word events: throughout NYC area

Storytelling Collaborations

Shirazad’s Children, founder of multicultural ensemble of storytellers 

Music for Home Made Instruments, collaboration with director Skip LaPlante

Aesop Sez: Fables for Our Times, collaboration with political cartoonist Richard Codor 

Bash the Trash, collaboration with environmental arts performing and teaching group

Producer

BADYHouse Storytelling Concerts – storytelling house concerts in my Brooklyn home, since 2013

Podcasting

Beyond Chelm, stories of Jewish and global themes for families, http://jcastnetwork.org/chelm/, 2014

Artistic Director / Director / Writer

CHILDREN’S THEATER WORKSHOP OF THE 92ND STREET YM-YWHA, New York, NY

ORGANIC YOUTH THEATER, Organic Theater, Chicago, IL, 

Director

PEARL HART, A HORSE OPERA by Cathy Chamberlain, New York, NY

SHORT STORIES by Marcia Kresge, City Center Dance Studios New York, NY

THE END OF CINDERELLA by Lyn Neiderman, West Bank Theater, New York, NY

DÉJÀ VU, The Asian American Cultural Center, New York, NY

Actor

THE SHIELD by South African director/writer/playwright Salialoh Maredi (touring company)

BREAD and ROSES THEATER, Chicago, IL (collective political theater company) 

RAPID TRANSIT GUERILLA COMMUNICATIONS, Chicago, IL (street theater company)

Publications and Blogs

The Button, STORYTELLING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM, Libraries Unlimited, NH

Confessions of a Coached Storyteller, STORYTELLING MAGAZINE, January 2013

Fairytales, Power and Status, STORYTELLING MAGAZINE, June, 2013

Considering House Concerts, STORYTELLING MAGAZINE – to be published August 2015

Starting From Zed, musings about storytelling, life, art, http://startingfromzed.blogspot.com, 2012- present

Honors and Awards

2012 J.J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Award, from the National Storytelling Network

2015 Oracle Award for Service and Leadership, from the National Storytelling Network

Conferences and Panels

Panelist / Presenter

National Storytelling Network Conference, Kansas City, MO  

Northlands Storytelling Conference, Lake Geneva, WI (multi-year)

Sharing the Fire, New England (multi-year)

Parents As Reading Partners New York, NY(multi-year)

New York City Arts and Education Roundtable, New York, NY (multi-year) 

Empire State Partnerships, Bronxville, NY

Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, MA

Illinois Theater Association Children’s Wing, Evanston, IL

Staff Developer and Trainer

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum of Art, Cortland (NY) school system, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City Library System, Queens Library System, Midyork Library System, New York City Schools, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Cortland County, NY School system, Music for Many, Henry Street Settlement, CityLore, Global Arts to Go

Professional Affiliations

National Storytelling Association, member since 1999

The Storytelling Center of New York, member since 1997, Board member since 2006, Director 2007 - 2010.

League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling, member since 2006

Northlands Storytelling, member since 2010

Education

College

New York University, Educational Theater Program, Masters Program 1982-1983 

New York University, Professional Actor Training Program, Tisch School of the Arts, BFA 1979 

Antioch College, 1969-71

Professional Studies

Storytelling:  Elizabeth Ellis, Laura Simms, Penninah Schram, 

Voice: Speech:  Shirley Tennyson, Tim Monich, Denise Woods, Lois Hunt, Donna Reid

Acting:  David Mamet, William H. Macy, Olympia Dukaukis, Peter Kass

Mime and Commedia Dell Arte: Leonard Pitt, Ronnie Davis