Jane Dorfman tells traditional, personal, and Celtic stories. Jane performs at festivals, libraries, and schools. She has recently started lying and finds it “very freeing.”
Jane is performing in the Women’s Storytelling Festival‘s two lunch time show producers’ storytelling shows at the Auld Shebeen on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Jane runs Voices-in-the-Glen, a MD based storytelling organization, and one of the Festival’s sponsors.
Voices-in-the-Glen is a guild for tellers in the Md/VA/Dc area. VitG has been meeting monthly, and hosting storytelling shows and workshops, for upwards of thirty years. Jane also works with the Washington Folk Festival (May 30-31-20) which has a dedicated Storytelling stage at the yearly two day festival, and a whole day at the Mini Fest, in Takoma Park (1-2-20.)
Jane started telling to children as part of her job. “When I got up in front of adults and they laughed as I told a funny story–it was so unlike anything I had ever done, I knew I wanted to do more.”
Watch a video of one of Jane’s storytelling performances here.
I asked Jane what she loves about storytelling. She answered, “I love the stories themselves. I get so caught up in them – the Celtic, the adventure tales, even ones I’ve written myself. (which, when I think about it is rather odd.)”
Regarding the Women’s Storytelling Festival, Jane added, “I think more women’s voices need to be heard in Storytelling. I was so happy to be asked to tell in this Festival. I feel women bring a different sensibility to stories, as an example–all the beautiful heroines, as if that is all that matters.”
Come see Jane perform, along with 17 other female storytellers, at the Women’s Storytelling Festival in the City of Fairfax, March 13 and 14, 2020. Details here.
