Storyteller: Dylan Pritchett

Dylan Pritchett is a native of Williamsburg, Virginia. Since 1990, Mr. Pritchett has been a full time storyteller, taking his African and African-American folk tales to hundreds of campus audiences throughout the country.  Dylan enjoys professional association with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where he performs and leads workshops for teachers on using storytelling in the classroom.  In conjunction with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Consortium in Columbia, South Carolina, Dylan has developed a five-week course teaching middle school students how to write and present stories of women and children, black and white, who lived during the Civil War era. Dylan's work extends beyond the classroom to museums, Arts Centers, historical sites, television and radio. In addition to recording several albums of folk tales, Dylan Prtichett has created voices for many historical characters on museum recordings and exhibitions.