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Gerald Fierst
is a performer, writer, and teacher, who has appeared throughout the US,
in England, and in Asia telling original stories, stories from his own
Jewish tradition, and stories from world folklore as well as leading workshops
for teachers and students in writing and performance. He is artistic director
of the Jewish Storytelling Center at the 92nd Street Y in NYC and Co-director
of the MidAtlantic Storytellers’ Gathering. As a member of the National
Yakkers Theater Ensemble, he is currently performing MOUTH an
original storytelling performance piece. He was a featured teller at the
1999 National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN, and appeared there
again in 2001 as a featured ghost storyteller and as a Storyteller in Residence
at the International Storytelling Center in 2003. He is on line with scholastic.com
inaugurating their storytelling web page. He has released four audiotapes
Monstrous Mischief , Tikun Olam (both Parents Choice Silver Honorees),
Jewish Tales of Magic and Mysticism and The American Spirit.
Fierst began his theatrical career at Yale and went on to perform in
the streets of New York City as a member of the celebrated New York Free
Theater. He is co-founder of the Whole Theater Company, a LORT theater
which produced in Montclair, NJ, for 18 seasons, in the course of which
he acted and served as Director of Education. He is a recipient of a New
Jersey State Council Fellowship in Playwriting for his musical Dancing
With Miracles based on Yaffa Eliach’s Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust.
Fierst has also done voice overs for animation, worked in television including
the daytime drama As the World Turns and the children’s
classic Romper Room, and acted in feature films including Roll
Over, Trading Places, and Kidnapped.
For information about bookings throughout
the US and abroad click here
to contact Gerald Fierst
For School and Library bookings in the Northeastern
US click here
To order tapes and CDs click here
For celebrant ceremonies click here
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