Master Storyteller, Diane Macklin has dedicated over two decades to the art of storytelling and listening. She engages audiences with a dynamic, theatrical style, blending her background as a certified educator, writer, and cultural mediator. She has performed from MA to CA for venues such as the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Florida Storytelling Festival, National Storytelling Festival’s Exchange Place, and a host of schools, libraries, museums, and other venues. She won the Jackie Torrence Tall Tale Contest for the National Association of Black Storytellers’ Festival (2018); the Maryland State Arts Council Apprenticeship Award with Mama Linda Goss, co-founder of NABS (2014); plus the Taft Museum’s Robert S. Duncanson Artist-in-Residence (2013). She invests in storytelling's ancient power to transform, heal, and spark the imagination. As a performer, keynote presenter, and teaching artist, Diane aims to “Make a Difference, One Story at a Time!”
Celebrate classic tales with a unique twist, honoring an ancient tradition of living and learning through stories, bubbling over with valuable lessons. Fables are "the food of the ear" that nourishes the mind and heart.
Appropriate Grade Levels:
PreK - 9
Curriculum Connections
STEM focused fables available – commissioned by Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning
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