Michael Parent

Awards and 
Appearances

Awards

  • American Library Association Notable Record Award

  • National Storytelling Network's
    Circle of Excellence Award

  • Parents' Choice Magazine Gold Award 

  • Ciné Golden Eagle Award

Recent Noteworthy Appearances

  • American Council for Quebec Studies, Burlington, VT

  • The Forest Storytelling Festival, Port Angeles, WA

  • Talk Story Festival, Honolulu, HI

  • Celebrating Story Festival, Invercargill, New Zealand

  • National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, TN

  • Cave Run Storytelling Festival in Morehead, KY

  • Mohegan Storytelling Festival, Crompond, NY

  • The Sperrins Autumn Storytelling Festival, Northern Ireland

  • Scealta Shamhna Festival, Dublin

  • Keynote speaker at the National  Storytelling Conference in Providence, RI

  • International Storytelling Colloquium, Paris

  • Open Borders, U.S.-Quebec Cultural Exchange, Lincoln, NH

  • Long Night of Storytelling festival-tour, Austria

  • Martha's Vineyard Festival of Storytelling, MA 

  • Midsummer Revels, French-Canadian Celebration, Lincoln, MA

  • Glistening Waters Storytelling Festival, Masterton, New Zealand

  • The Multicultural Storytelling Festival, Eugene, OR

  • The Bay Area Storytelling Festival, Berkeley, CA

  • Cape Clear Island Storytelling Festival, Ireland

  • Snake River Storytelling Festival, Rexburg, ID

  • International Storytelling Center, Jonesborough, TN

  • Columbia Public Library, Missouri

Original One-Man Shows

Links to performances in 2004-2010 of: 

"The Goofy Show" 

"A Beautiful Game" 

"One More Thing"

Sampling of Theater Credits 

Wrote or co-wrote, and performed in:

“Frog Stuck in the Ice,” presented by LA Arts in Lewiston, Maine, ’00.

 "Heads Up! -- Theater from the Back Side of the Brain" (with Larry Goldstein) at Live Arts, '96.

"Left-Handed Free Throws," (with Philip Kerl) at Live Arts Theater, Charlottesville, Va. '92. 

"Grandpa’s Birthday" (One-person show)  at the Four County Playhouse, Barboursville, Virginia, ‘88. 

 

Performed major roles in:

Charlottesville (Virginia) Theater Ensemble's production of "Lie of the Mind" by Sam Shepard, '89. 

Live Arts Theatre for Children's "The Great Cross-Country Race" (Tortoise & Hare), '91. 

Live Arts & Offstage Theater's production of "Illuminati" by Larson and Lee, '92. 

Live Arts Theater Ensemble's production of "More Fun Than Bowling," by Steven Dietz, January,  '95. 

Solo performances and voiceovers for "Golden Apple Odyssey," Apple Computer Co., Italy and Greece,  '95. 

Live Arts Theater Ensemble’s “Coffeehouse” cabaret-style productions, ’90-’95.

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Contact Michael Parent:

michaelparent@maine.rr.com 

www.michaelparentstorytelling.com  ~ 95 Congress St., Portland, ME 04101 ~ Phone  (207) 879-0401