Holly Gundolfi - Storyteller

Introduction: Multi-cultural, musical and interactive are the words most often used to describe my style. I am theatrical but can also be intimate. I enjoy sharing languages from several African dialects, a bit of French, Spanish, Chinese, Hawaiian (and more) either through songs or spoken word within a story. I have a large repertoire of stories that I have internalized and made my own giving me a solid base and a great versatility as a performer. I attend meetings of my local storytelling group as well as attending festivals to continually gather inspiration. Meeting people is the best part of this job. I often learn as much from an audience as I have given. I enjoy the variety of each job being a new challenge with a new audience to share with. Research, reading and other preparations for this work are continual and I am delighted to find the connections between a story in one culture and another or the story within the story. There are unlimited possibilities for growth; always a new twist or turn in telling a familiar story, and a never ending supply of stories yet to know. Gaining insights of "walking in another person's shoes" by telling someone else's story opens my heart and fills me with compassion.