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Storyteller Tim Ereneta brings to life traditional tales for contemporary audiences, available for storytelling events or as a one-man solo performance for theatrical venues. Tim's repertoire includes classic fairy tales, forgotten wonder tales, and grim and gruesome folk tales of the Middle Ages. Appropriate for adult audiences and those who can listen like adults (Ages 11 and up).

He is the recipient of the National Storytelling Network's 2006 J.J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Grant. His performance was selected as one of the Top Five Acts of the 2005 Rogue Performance Festival, where The Fresno Bee called him "Droll, funny and original."

As a playwright and actor, Tim brings over 19 years of theatre experience to his storytelling, including appearances at the Orlando, Edmonton, and San Francisco Fringe Festivals, Fresno's Rogue Festival, the Bay Area Storytelling Festival, the Stitching Stars Storytelling Festival, and Arizona's Emergent Stortyelling Series. For ten years, he was in the mainstage company of BATS Improv, one of San Francisco's most popular improvisation troupes. He is a co-founder of San Francisco's Storytellers Unplugged, a troupe of storytellers that reveal the power of story through improvisation.

He also writes a blog, "Breaking the Eggs," where he weighs in on topics of interest to the performance storytelling community.

Tim is a former bus driver, search engine editor, camp counselor, science teacher, and singing dinosaur.

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National Storytelling Festival Wrap Up, Interweb Style

Another year, another National Storytelling Festival come and gone.

Me? I didn't make the trek to Jonesborough, Tennessee, this year. Instead, I chose to follow the Festival vicariously on Twitter.

How did that go?

Find out for yourself: http://storytelling.blogspot.com/2009/10/national-storytelling-festival-wrap-up.html

And this week, I've been enjoying the blog posts of those… Continue

Posted on October 9, 2009 at 12:03am — 3 Comments

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Is Twitter a good platform for storytelling? No.

Over at Breaking the Eggs, I muse upon the techno-tool of the year, Twitter, the micro-blogging tool that is making blogging so last year.
http://storytelling.blogspot.com/2009/03/storytelling-in-140-characters.html

Posted on March 10, 2009 at 1:25am — 2 Comments

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The Weary Tourists Swap Stories: Another post from India

18 storytellers sharing a bus for two weeks. How hard can it be to find time to swap stories?
Harder than you think.

Read my latest blog entry about the World Storytelling Institute/Eth-Noh-Tec Tharisanam storytelling tour of November 2008 over at Breaking the Eggs: http://storytelling.blogspot.com/2009/01/india-weary-travelers-swap-stories.html

Posted on February 2, 2009 at 11:54pm —

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Call for Performers: Long Island Fringe Festival

Long Island is hosting their first Fringe Festival in September 2009, and has released a call for performers. Do you have a 30 to 45 minute set ready to go on the road? Learn more in the Fringe Festival Group.

Long Island Fringe Festival web site: Link

Posted on January 5, 2009 at 11:19am —

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Story Swapping Between Cultures

Over at "Breaking the Eggs," I've posted another entry from last month's storytelling tour of Tamil Nadu organized by Eth-Noh-Tec and the World Storytelling Institute. This time, you can read my thoughts on the story swapping in rural villages we participated in.

Posted on December 27, 2008 at 7:49pm —

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At 11:11pm on November 18, 2009, TULIKA PUBLISHERS said…
Hi Tim ! Thanks for the warm welcome !
At 11:36am on April 28, 2009, Cat Weatherill said…
Yurts are great - specially when they have fairy lights and candles. Milgi's yurt is in the yard behind a city centre bar, and it's full of sofas and armchairs. Sooo comfy. Kasper was our first international teller. Would you like to be our second?!! I'd love to hear you tell. Cat x
At 7:32pm on April 21, 2009, Brother Wolf said…
My post on Storytelling conferences and recording was completely inspired by you and I of course completly forgot to say thank-you .

So Thanks - for the inspiration!

Eric Wolf
PS: I didn't site you as the source of my inspiration in the hopes that the apparent unconnected nature might feel like a rising instead of just a conspearacy.
At 2:44pm on March 2, 2009, Sylvia Payne said…
Thanks Tim, I appreciate this and will certainly do as you requested.

Take care,
Sylvia
At 2:23pm on February 28, 2009, Sylvia Payne said…
Hi Tim,
May I quote your question about "Scottish Folktales Collected by Duncan Williamson" in the next issue of North Carolina Storytelling Guild's quarterly publication - "Journal of Tar Heel Tellers?" If I receive your permission, I would like to proceed by asking permission to publish another individual's response.

I live in the US and love the way the UK look at copyright, particularly toward folklore.

Thanks for your question and keep 'em coming!
Sylvia Payne
At 9:07am on February 5, 2009, Joe Brennan said…
Thanks Tim. Its a very good likeness created by my son a few years back. Converys so much more than any photo I have!!!! Looking forward to navigating the site and getting lots out of it. Of course when I clicked on your page I was greeted by yourself and Clare Murphy. Small world!!!
Joe
At 5:51am on February 4, 2009, Cat Weatherill said…
Thanks, Tim! You've set me thinking.... A contemporary reference might make all the difference to the interested-but-unsure gang.To call a pair of medieval lovers 'the Brad & Angelina of their times' needn't devalue their story. And the essential show wouldn't have to change - maybe just a tweaking to the introduction...
At 8:50am on December 17, 2008, Cat Weatherill said…
Thanks for the reply, Tim. Been checking out your myspace and now I'm fascinated by your approach to marketing! No one in the UK sells shows your way. Clearly it works for you, or you wouldn't be using that language, but it does make me wonder whether all your shows are humorous. I'm interested because I'm a real medieval fiend and would love to do more medieval shows, but 'serious' medieval shows (ie romances) are almost impossible to sell to the general public here in the UK. The bawdy stuff is easy to market - the expectation is that the stories will be fast & funny. But romantic tales seem to be perceived as long, wordy, high brow... Do you do chivalric stuff - or 'serious' ghost stories for that matter? (Sorry to keep using the word serious - it implies that you're doing lightweight fluff, but you know what I'm saying, I'm sure!) How do you market darker material? Cat x
At 11:15am on December 16, 2008, Rab Fulton said…
Hi Tim, yeah the yelping face is a kinda permanent feature now my son Dylan has switched into warp factor ten crawling speed!Thanks for saying hello. Hope the dark nights are proving fruitful storywise
At 3:26pm on December 15, 2008, Cat Weatherill said…
Hi Tim

Now you've got me curious... What are the 'grim and gruesome folk tales from the Middle Ages' you tell? They sound exactly like the kind of thing I tell! Cat x

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