Rona Leventhal - Contact Info

Mailing Address

Rona Leventhal
P.O. Box 855
Northampton, MA 01061-0855

Telephone

(413) 586-0624

E-mail

rona@ronatales.com

Who Is Rona Leventhal, Anyway?

Rona Leventhal, Storyteller, Certified Teacher, Environmental Educator, and Specialist of Improvisational Theatre and Movement, Integrating-the-Arts-into-the-Curriculum, and Team Building Games is an exuberant artist who has gained repute as a cornucopia of voices, characters, and cultural accents. She infuses a dramatic touch into tales from many cultures, giving us insights on how to live more clearly with ourselves, others, and the earth. Her performances are far more than just stories, beautifully weaving together drama, movement, songs, and humor, encouraging audience participation, and creating a joyful sense of community! Whether in the schools or in a public forum, Rona has the ability to communicate with the audience in a way that effectively imparts a message in a captivating and entertaining fashion.

Rona is applauded for her warm and enthusiastic spirit, supportive nature, and inspiring talent. An ecclectic educator, Rona is deeply committed to working with teachers and their curricula goals in using storytelling, story creating, improvisational theatre and movement, and other art forms as media to develop the imagination… an essential component, she believes, to inquiring and creative minds. She is also passionate about bringing literacy to students an an exciting, motivational, and accessible way. She tours internationally, telling stories and presenting workshops and school residencies, to children and adults, and keynote addresses at professional conferences. She teaches Storytelling to teachers as an Adjunct Faculty with Lesley University (Cambridge, MA) and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is recognized for her artistry by the Massachusetts, Alaskan, Utah, and NY (BOCES) Arts Councils and the New England Touring Roster (funding available).

Rona is Co-Editor of the book Spinning tales, Weaving Hope: Stories of Peace, Justice, and the Environment (New Society Publishers). It’s a wonderful collection of stories with follow-up activities, and is age and subject indexed. The new edition is now available and contains a new chapter on the benefits of storytelling in education, co-wrote by Rona Leventhal and Katie Green.

Special programs include a commissioned piece, "Degas and the Little Dancer: A story-theater Show” about Degas and the creation of his famous statue The Little Dancer of Fourteen Years. Up-coming projects include a tape of environmental stories and songs, a living history program on 1800's abolitionism, and a book entitled, The Power of Imagination: Teaching to Creative Minds.