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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 specialize in telling true stories about people who made a difference. 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). Each of my fourd CDs has won a national storytelling award. My fourth CD, Fighting For Our Rights - American Women Mid-20th Century won a 2015 Storytelling World Honor Award in the category Storytelling Recordings for Listening Pleasure For Any Age. 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 double CD set contains seven stories of women fighting for civil rights and women's rights, set during a time when white women could not rent cars, be on juries in many states or get a mortgage no matter how much money they made. African American women could not do many more things. 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. 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 17th season Word Plays at Proctors, in its 9th season 20th Annual Tellabration: Unexpected Kindness at Proctors Story By Story: Celebrating the Human Spirit, 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 A silly joke: What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary?                     .                     .                     .                      A thesaurus.

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

I last updated this web site on May 12, 2016.