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Susan Danoff
Princeton, NJ
609-921-0916
susandanoff@yahoo.com

Susan Danoff has loved stories all her life and began exploring the art of storytelling in 1979. She is author of the book The Golden Thread: Storytelling in Teaching and Learning and has produced three audio recordings. Women of Vision is now available on CD.

After working as an independent teaching artist in New Jersey schools from 1982 – 1996, including five years with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Artists-in-Education Program, in 1996 Susan founded the nonprofit corporation Storytelling Arts, Inc., where she served as Executive Director until 2007. Under her leadership, Storytelling Arts forged partnerships with more than fifty schools and institutions, served approximately 18,000 children in long-term programs to support learning and literacy, and provided extensive teacher training in storytelling.

Since 1986, Susan has taught weeklong intensive workshops in storytelling at Princeton University. Her summer programs have been designed to help teachers learn the art of storytelling and its relevance to community building, literacy, and learning.

Susan has also taught storytelling to undergraduates at Princeton, for docents at the Princeton University Art Museum, for the Friends Council on Education, in the School of Education at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, and at numerous teacher in-services. From 1985-1992 she taught “The Craft of Writing” at Princeton University.

Susan offers keynote speeches, workshops, retreats, and performances.

Member since 4/08