Kristin Pedemonti combines storytelling, theatre and literature to create educational and entertaining programs which feature folktales from around the world. The goal is to build bridges and foster understanding between cultures through storytelling. Every show includes audience participation and is as educational as it is entertaining. Kristin has performed for thousands of children and adults at hundreds of locations throughout the mid-Atlantic and Belize, Central America as well as for students in Thorpe, UK and Paris, France.


Programs promote LITERACY.


Explore the world through interactive folktale theatre.


Participants help tell the tales - simple costumes and dialogue provided.


Programs tie into school curriculum standards.


Folktales featured from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, Middle East, and Europe.

Current programs include: African Tales/Safari, Around the World, Character Education, It’s a Bug’s Life; Insect Stories, Latin American Tales collected from Belize and Guatemala, Multicultural Trickster Tales and Harvest Tales, and Tales to Tingle Your Spine. Custom programs also available.




Artist in Residency Programs

Multicultural, Educational, enhances Literacy! These programs coordinate with school curriculum and are perfect for Language Arts, Social Studies, ESL, Title I, Literacy and Reading.

  1. Bullet School-wide or grade level Story Theatre assemblies of multicultural folktales

  2. Bullet Classroom visits in which the students engage in hands-on activities

  3. Bullet Choose from Storytelling or Story-writing based activities tailored to grade levels with Ms. Pedemonti leading the students in exercises.

  4. BulletTeacher Workshops are also available, teachers learn how to incorporate more storytelling into their classrooms and learn basic storytelling techniques to inspire their students!

Storytelling activities: students break into small groups and working together:

Tell their own life stories with topics such as "How I Got This Scar," My most scary moment was...", "The Best Birthday Ever."

Story-writing activities: each activity is based on a storytelling model in which the students listen to a selection of stories told in the same format in which they will write. Then a template is used to facilitate the writing experience.

  1. ✓ Retell classic folktales such as The Three Pigs

  2. ✓ Basic Storytelling Techniques

  3. ✓ Character Voices

  4. ✓ Body Movement

  5. ✓ Engaging the audience

  1. ✓Character Stories: students listen to tales collected from the major cultures represented at their school. After the presentation students choose a character or folk figure important to their culture of origin and write a short story about what happens when they meet the character. Examples of featured characters: Tata Duhende in Belize; a protector of the forest, Chubacabra; a mythical wolf-dog from Puerto Rico, Smok Walweski; a dragon from Poland.

  2. ✓How and Why (Pourquoi) Tales featuring Pennsylvania wildlife or endangered animals around the globe.

  3. ✓Topic Stories featuring various subjects such as The Camping Trip, A Visit to the Zoo Gone Awry, You Won’t Believe This But...


Visit Student Stories Page for collected stories written by youth in Belize and the US.


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