About Dawn

“Modern storytellers are the descendents of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags, and crazy people.”

– Clarissa Pinkola Estes in Women Who Run With the Wolves

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other."

– Luciano
De Crescenzo

Dawn Daniels is noted as a radiant artist of the spoken and sung word devoted to creating an entertaining, transformative, and empowering experience for her listeners. A seasoned actor, vocalist, director, writer, teacher and counselor – Dawn brings all of her gifts to storytelling. She has performed for audiences of all ages in venues ranging from stage to pulpit to classroom to campfire, from the East Coast to her native Midwest. Dawn’s performances are an eclectic weaving of stories and songs drawn from a wide-ranging repertoire of world folklore, literary classics, sacred works, mythology, legend, fairy tale, and original creations.

"Dawn Daniels is a phenomenal performer; to hear her tell a story is to be transported – not only to magical places, but to the inner reaches of our own fears and longings. By creating characters at once engaging and profound, she uses her expressive face and incredible voice to leave her audience simply spellbound."

– Joanne Gilbert, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication
Alma College

Described as a storyteller of “uncommon gifts and graces”, Dawn’s work is grounded in a devotion to the creative-relational process of story and a deep-in-the-belly belief in the capacity of storytelling to help us:
	Explore, celebrate and honor our diversity
	Embrace our commonality
	Deepen our ability to listen – to each other and to our own hearts
	Find our authentic voice
	Create/reclaim/deepen community
	Challenge our worldviews
	Transform our perceptions
	Rekindle our imaginative power
	Heal our sense of disconnect – within ourselves and in this world
	Laugh...cry...whoop with joy!

Through story we meet ourselves again – and again – and yet again.

A Michigan native, Dawn has traveled widely across the U.S. as a performer and for a time, as a corpsman in the U.S. Navy – yes, it’s true. Her diverse roles in life have included addictions therapist, prevention educator, acting/vocal coach, choir director, freelance writer, parent and pie baker. Dawn studied literature, music, and theatre at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, and holds a B.S. degree in Psychology from Eastern Michigan University. She makes her home in Alma, MI with her two sons and two lovably deranged cats.

Past performances/venues include:

The Michigan Story Festival
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Alma College
The Williamston Theatre
The Henry Ford/Greenfield Village - Lovett Hall
Art Reach of Mid Michigan
Canton Public Library
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Michigan
CenterStage at the Gem – St. Louis, MI
Farmington Historical Society
The Servant Church of St. Alexander, Farmington Hills, MI
Ypsilanti Heritage Festival, Ypsilanti, MI
Presbyterian Women in the Presbytery of Detroit, Dearborn, MI
Farmington Hills Community Library/SheSpeaks
Counseling Services
Carson City-Crystal Middle School, Carson City, MI
Ithaca South Elementary School, Ithaca, MI
Edward Jones Investment Group, Alma, MI
Northville Victorian Festival, Northville, MI
Masonic Pathways, Alma, MI
Pine River Health Care Center, St. Louis, MI
Breckenridge Elementary School, Breckenridge, MI
Evening in the Park Series, Gratiot County, MI

For a more complete list of venues, click here.

Memberships

National Storytelling Network
Maternal Order of Barefoot Tellers
Cracked Crone Sisterhood

Contact Info:
Dawn Daniels
Stone Soup Productions
812 N. State St., Alma, MI 48801
(989)763-6315
dawn@stonesoupproductions.org