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* Commissioned by an international think tank hosted by the Disney Institute to present stories about the causes, diagnosis, and cure of breast cancer.
* Developed an orginal story for the Pediatric Emergency Nurses Conference of CT
* The featured 'Cabaret Artist' at the National Storytelling Festival (5th appearance) where standing ovations met her work.
* Developed and delivered programs for the corporate mangement of UNILEVER
* Invited to participate in a national conference of performance artists sponsored in full by the National Performance Network.
* Initiated and facilitated BRIDGING LIVES, a big brother/sister program that matches teens with younger students in the Marblehead schools.
* Produced Blooming: Stories for Girls to Grow On, her newest CD, named the winner of Parents Guide to Children's Media for "outstanding achievement," chosen from over 12,000 entries for the STORYTELLING WORLD HONOR AWARD, and winner of two Pegasus Awards.
* Commissioned by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and The Tsongas Industrial History Center to create a first person presentation, Meet Lucy Stone, for the State House Woman's Leadership Project.
* Delivered a keynote address at the National Interpreters Conference, investigating multiple truths through the varied voices here-to-fore unacknowledged in our national history.
* Developed a staff training tool for High school teachers addressing issues if diversity
* Worked as a consultant to the entertainment professionals and Imagineers at Disney World in Orlando, FL.
* Saw the story of her son's passion for football published in Chicken Soup for the Single Soul.
Judith Black has been featured at (Abridged List):
* The National Storytelling Festival '90, '92, '94, '96, '2000 '03 Jonesboro, Tennessee
* The Montreal Comedy Festival Montreal, Canada
* The Hoosier Festival Indianapolis, Indiana
* The Timpanogos Storytelling Festival Orem, Utah
* The Sierra Storytelling Festival Nevada City, California
* The Three Apples Storytelling Festival (founder) Harvard, Massachusetts
* The Vermont Storytelling Festival Burlington, Vermont
* Hillel International Leaders Assembly Honesdale, Pa.
* Las Vegas Storytelling Festival Las Vegas, Nevada
* Columbia Festival of the Arts Columbia, Maryland
* Johnstown Storytelling Festival Johnstown, Pennsylvania
* C.A.J.E. '89 '90'91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '98 '99 '00 '03
* University of Judaism Los Angeles, California
* Catholic University San Diego, Calf.
* Stories From the Heartland Austin, Minnesota
* Midland College Fremont, Nebraska
* Clearwater Revival Poughkeepsie, New York
* University of Southern Tennessee Johnson City, Tn.
* Jung Center and 92nd St. YMHA New York, New York
* Missouri River Festival St. Louis, Missouri
* Arizona State Library Association Phoenix, Arizona * Smithsonian Institution/National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
* The Ark Ann Arbor, Michigan
* Mid Atlantic Storytellers (MAST) College Town, Pennsylvania
* National Trust For Historic Preservation Boston, Massachusetts
* Brown University Providence, Rhode Island
* Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
* The 6th Annual Hollywood Literary Retreat Los Angeles
* 40th Annual Institute of Alcohol and Drug Studies Austin, Texas
* Hebrew College Masters Performance Series Brookline, Ma.
* The Flynn Theater Burlington, Vt.
* Boise River Festival Boise, Idaho
* The Mariposa Storytelling Festival Mariposa, CA
* The Flying Leap Storytelling Festival Solvang, CA
* Bay Area Festival Kennedy Grove, CA
* Toronto Jewish Storytelling Festival Toronto, Ontario
* The Barter Theater Bristol, VA
* Salem State Summer Theater Salem, MA
* Buckeye Community College Great Falls, Iowa
* Ohai Storytelling Festival Ohai, California
* Michigan Storytelling Festival Flint, Michigan
* Washington Storytellers Theater Washington, DC
* The Rockwell Museum ('89, 94, 98, 2001) Sturbridge, MA
* Society of Female Engineers Cambridge, MA
Awards and Citations:
* National Storytelling Network Oracle Award: Circle of Excellence
* Boston Parents Paper: Gold Medal Family Entertainer of the Year
* WBZ T.V.: "Rising Star" of New England Performance Artists
* Parents Choice Magazine: Gold Medal Award
* Wheelock College: Centennial Alumni Award
* Boston Phoenix : Named her show Banned in the Western Suburbs one of the year's ten best small theater productions
* Storytelling World Honor Tape
* New England Emmy Awards (nominated) Outstanding Acting/Performing
* Springfield Cable Endowment Programming Excellence
* Cable Ace Award (nominated) Performing Arts Award
* Fifth National Invitational Storytelling Championship 1998 The People's Choice Award
* Parents Guide to Children's Media "Outstanding Achievement" for CD Storytelling World Honor Tape
* National Youth Storytelling Pegasus Award Special Distinction
* Blooming: Stories for Girls to Grow On The Second Story Review: A Quarterly Review of Storytelling Materials
* LANES Article on personal stories cited for excellence "...should be required reading for any teller about to add a personal story to a performance."
Publications:
Ms. Blacks' articles have appeared in:
* Storytelling Magazine (National Association) Jonesboro, Tn.
* The Yarnspinner Jonesboro, Tn.
* Journal of Reading: International Reading Association Newark, De.
* The Inside Story Santa Rosa, Calf.
* The Story Bag San Diego, Calf.
* Storytelling World Johnson City, Tn.
Ms. Black's stories appear in:
* Ready To Tell Tales 1994 August House
* Chosen tales: Stories Told By Jewish Storytellers 1995 Jason Aaronson Inc.
* Many Voices: True Tales from America's Past 1995 The National Storytelling Press * Chicken Soup for the Single Soul 1999 Health Communications Press
* Bringing the Story Home: The Complete Guide to Storytelling for Parents 2000 WW Norton & Co.
Keynote Addresses
Judith is a featured speaker around the nation. These are a sampling of her topics:
* Multi-Cultural Education Wheelock College Alumni Forum
* Censorship and Stories The National Congress on Storytelling Stories; The Heart and Head of Preschool Education Childcare Resources for Western Mass
* Stories are Language Boston Bi Lingual Ed Conference
* Teaching Language through Stories New England Middle School Alliance
* Stories at the Heart of it All Mass Library Association
* Moral and Curricular Implications of creating History Stories. MAST Conf./Teachers of History Conf.
* Finding Truth in the Facts of History National Storytelling Network
* History Alive The National Interpreters Conference
* Storytelling:Raising the Bar on Moral Thought and Behavior Sharing the Fire
Workshops and Courses:
Twenty years on the faculty of Lesley University's Art Institute, Ms Black has taught the art of storytelling at institutions throughout the United States including:
* Boston University Law School
* Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
* The National Institute on Storytelling
* National Congress on Storytelling
* Annual Institute of Alcohol and Drug Studies
* Annual Hollywood Literary Retreat
* Disney World
* National Storytelling Network
Ms Black has trained national park interpreters in communication skills and storytelling:
* National Interpreters Conference
* Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
* Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, Schaumburg, Ill.
* Glacier National Park
BACKGROUND
Judith Black brings to her storytelling a varied background in education, theater, and creative writing. Having studied early childhood education at Wheelock College, Ms Black taught for three years before moving to London where she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Later she toured as an actress for two years with Little Flags Theater Company.
Judith was a founder and ten year board member of The Three Apples Storytelling Festival. She helped to initiate and produce "Storytellers in Concert", the first longest running storytelling series for adults in the nation. Her award winning original stories have been commissioned by the U.S. Department of the Interior, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Old South Church, The Artist's foundation, The U.S.S. Constitution Museum,The U.S. Department of Forestry, the North Shore Symphony and others. She has created three television series's for Massachusetts Cable Educational Television, worked with organizations who objectives are to prevent domestic violence, and is presently working on a new piece about that path we will all tread; Making Peace With The Pitt Bull: Discovering New Possibilities Within Lifes' Last Journey.
What the Critics Say:
The Boston Globe: "For a wicked good time, see Judith Black's Banned in the Western Suburbs......Black's lively presentation is more of a one woman show than a session of storytelling."
The Boston Phoenix: "Her sympathetic persona is a cross between Lily Tomlin and Woody Allen, the hard edge of feminist certitude cushioned by self-deprecating humor that never slides into self hatred." (Banned in the Western Suburbs)
The Boston Phoenix: "Storyteller, Judith Black's latest solo performance may be called Teetering on the Edge, but this actress/storyteller is one awesomely confident babe.... she'll have you giggling in the aisles."
North Shore Sunday: "Judith Black's audience hangs on every word."
Chicago Tribune: "She received a standing ovation after her engrossing, often hilarious, and in the end poignant portrait of a contemporary urban romance."
The Montreal Gazette: "By the time Black is through with her show, she's fashioned a world of giants, castles and disco pool parties with nothing more than her imagination. The adults are smiling as broadly as the children."
Christian Science Monitor: "There were tales and tellers that had moments of nobility and beauty. Judith Black's strongly felt parable about a grove of rootless trees symbolizing the Jewish people evoked feelings of shared humanity."
The Boston Globe: "Black has culled the minefields of childhood and elevated them through her storytelling to a level of universal experience that is not only painful and poignant, but gut-wrenchingly hilarious." (Adult Children of ...Parents)
The Jewish Advocate: "Judith Black should be sought after by one and all for her wisdom, for her wit, for the risks she takes on stage and for her genuine warmth which she abundantly shares with one and all." (Adult Children of ...Parents)
University of San Diego/Storytelling Series: "The silence and deafening cheers of the audience gave tribute to the incredible genius of Judith Black."
The Boston Globe "Spellbinding, heartwarming, and yet oh so familiar, a wonderful evocation of the struggle to keep one's children rooted in Judaism. Judith's story reaches the depths where we all are one." (Looking For G-d's Doorbell)
Mobsy Strange Kennedy The Improper Bostonian "Judith Black is like a repertory company of one....She wittily conveys the trials and tribulations of one of life's trickiest passages, negotiating our parents' sometimes long and winding ending."
The Boston Globe "Like most of Black's stories, it's funny and touching, filled with colorful characters, accents and songs. And it's thought provoking." (Retiring the Champ)
Mark R. Arnold-Editor The Jewish Journal "A superb one-woman show by the multi-talented Ms. Black. She can swagger like a sailor or act meek as a mouse. Her emotional range seems boundless. " (Retiring the Champ)
The North Shore Sunday "Black's one woman show, Retiring the Champ, is about redemption...also like all of Black's tales, filled with laughter." (Retiring the Champ)
Her Mother "If only she'd keep her hair out of her eyes, she'd be brilliant."
* Commissioned by an international think tank hosted by the Disney Institute to present stories about the causes, diagnosis, and cure of breast cancer.
* Developed an orginal story for the Pediatric Emergency Nurses Conference of CT
* The featured 'Cabaret Artist' at the National Storytelling Festival (5th appearance) where standing ovations met her work.
* Developed and delivered programs for the corporate mangement of UNILEVER
* Invited to participate in a national conference of... View more
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Release Year | 2007 |
Genre | Audio Book |
Location | Marblehead, MA, USA |
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