Paula Reed Nancarrow

Bio

My LinkedIn profile provides my credentials as a grant writer and development professional. It also includes testimonials to my work as Producer and Artistic Director of Northstar Storytelling League's Tellabration! festival at Open Book. Northstar is a 501c3 organization whose mission is to promote storytelling and develop and support storytellers. You can learn more about them at http://northstarstorytelling.org. As an artist, I both write and perform stories. My repetoire includes personal and historical narratives, as well as folk tales and myths, that reflect the texture and complexity of family life, its blessings and betrayals. The tension between intimacy and autonomy is a key theme in my work. I use humor to create a safe space for allowing this tension to play out in relationships between family members: fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, husbands and wives. Currently I blog at http://ordinarytime.livejournal.com/.