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Thank you for visiting my storytelling site. Many people find my stories entertaining, heartwarming and memorable. I hope that you will too. For me, storytelling combines the intensity of a one person play with the intimacy of a one-on-one conversation. As an award-winning author and storyteller (I won the Story Slam at the 2010 National Storytelling Conference in Los Angeles,) I enjoy telling many kinds of stories to all ages. A particular interest of mine is giving a voice to people from the past. I've told stories at many venues in the Northeastern USA, including The New-York Historical Society (New York City, NY), The Clearwater Festival (Croton-on-Hudson, NY), First Night Saratoga (Saratoga Springs, NY), and The Norman Rockwell Museum (Stockbridge, MA). My third CD, Young People Who Made a Difference, has been named winner of a 2013 Storytelling World Resource Award in the adolescent listeners category. Storytelling World is a fully-refereed journal offered annually through National Storytelling Network’s Storytelling Magazine. Each year, Storytelling World gives awards to the most exciting new stories that audiences of various ages would enjoy hearing and storytelling resources that offer information about the field of storytelling. This year’s 34 award winners, selected from several hundred nominated stories, books, and recordings, will be featured in a special section of the April/May issue of Storytelling Magazine. A story on my second CD, People Who Made a Difference: Volume 1, won a 2010 Storytelling World Honor Award in the category stories for pre-adolescent listeners. If you would like to receive my quarterly e-newsletter, Voices From the Past, please click here. Click here to visit my web design site. Click here to visit my knitting design site. I am also a producer of storytelling events: Story Sundays at the Glen Sanders Mansion, in its 14th season Word Plays at Proctors, in its 6th season 17th Annual Tellabration: Wild, Wicked and Wonderful at Proctors Story By Story: Sharing the Human Experience, a monthly public access TV show broadcast over several channels in the Capital District. I hope you find what you're looking for. If not, please be sure to contact me: Kate Dudding 8 Sandalwood Drive, Clifton Park, NY 12065-2700 USA kate@katedudding.com       (518) 383-4620

Kate sharing an impromptu story, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photo courtesy of Ellouise Schoettler Kate telling at Voorheesville Public Library during Riverway Storytelling Festival 2012. Photos courtesy of Mary Murphy

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I last updated this web site on March 25, 2013.