Tall Tales Told by Nationally Renowned Storyteller Paul Strickland - A CCPL Summer Performance

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Performance

Age Group:

All Ages

Program Description

Event Details

Join nationally renowned storyteller and theater artist Paul Strickland as he performs his show, featuring fun, interactive tall tales and sing-along songs.

Presented free of charge. No registration is required. An adult must accompany all children under the age of 12.


About Paul Strickland:
Paul Strickland is a professional storyteller and theatre artist who lives in Kentucky. He has well
over 7 hours of unique family friendly stories in his repertoire, including reupholstered folk tales,
fairytales for adults and future adults, tall-tales and even historical stories that just happened to
have never happened.


Paul was a Teller-in-Residence at the International Storytelling Center in 2024.
He was a FEATURED TELLER: NEW VOICE at the National Storytelling Festival in 2023. He
was also a Featured Teller at the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival in September of 2023, and has
been a featured teller at several major storytelling festivals, including the Cave Run Storytelling
Festival, in 2022.


In November of 2018 he made his NYC stage debut Off-Broadway at the SoHo Playhouse with
his shadow and flashlight ghost story play "13 Dead Dreams of "Eugene."

Always adapting to whatever audience is in front of him, Paul LOVES telling stories in every
imaginable environment, from comedy clubs to elementary and middle schools, corporate events
and even two prisons - where he was NOT an inmate at the time.
Collections of his stories have won "Best of Fest" honors more than 18 times at Fringe Theatre
Festivals in the US and Canada. Selections from his comedy performance "Levels of Difficulty"
are still played nearly every day on SiriusXM radio.