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A professional actress for over 20 years, Lynne brings a freshness and vitality to her tales of wonder, fantasy and the spiritual journey. Her stories and songs are for children and adults of all ages. Her tales celebrate the human condition in all its many colors.

Lynne has performed at the Museum of Science and Industry for their Winter Tales Program. She has appeared as a guest teller at the South Mountain Community College Storytelling Festival in Mesa, Arizona.

She has participated in the District 15 Family Literacy Faire in Palatine, Illinois, for three years running and performed at the Storytelling Festival at the Rogers Park Branch Library in 1999. She is a frequent teller at various branches of the Chicago Public Library system, including telling in 21 libraries in a two-week period as part of their Book-a-Mania program.

She was a featured teller at the "Tales from the Heller Wood" festival in October 2001 and 2002 held at the Heller Nature Center in Highland Park.

Lynne has told at numerous schools in and around the Chicagoland area and did an 8-week residency at Ebinger Elementary in Chicago, sharing stories and storytelling techniques with children from pre-school through the sixth grade.

A frequent teller at the Evanston Ecology Center and become a favorite performer at area senior citizen centers. Lynne has also worked as a music instructor working with very small children at both the Old Town School of Folk Music and "The Music Class" in Northbrook, Illinois, a music program out of Atlanta.

Special Programs Include:

Hearth and Home: Touching Tales to Warm the Heart
A heartwarming collection of stories and songs straight from the heart, aimed straight for yours.

Love Story: Some Simple thoughts on a Complex Matter
Through story and song, Lynne explores the many hues and flavors love has to offer from the profane to the profound.

Sometimes the Best Man for the Job is a Woman
Tales and tunes celebrating heroic women.

The Luck of the Irish and other Falsehoods
Tunes and tales with an Irish brogue which will be makin' ya yearn for the old country. Find out why the Irish are considered a people rich with humor, cleverness and a true lust for life.

A Wild, Wild West in Story and Song
Playing cowboys and indians was never quite as fun as this galloping romp through the Wild, Wild West filled with a host of colorful characters and sneaky varmints and a couple of cowboy songs thrown in for good measure.

My County 'Tis of Thee
Patriotic stories and songs that celebrate America in true Red, White and Blue fashion.

Hugs and Bugs and Other Growing Things
Environmentally safe tales and tunes that nurture and love the earth. Filled with creatures real and imagined, these clever critters have an important message to share.

Tales With a Twist
Quick and clever tales that will boggle the mind and tickle your funny bone, Filled with trickster characters from many cultures, Tales With a Twist will keep you guessing to the very end.

Tunes and Tails
Stories and songs that celebrate our four-footed, often furry, sometimes feathered friends. Filled with clever spiders and goats, dragons and mice, monkeys and guinea pigs, each tale or tune will have you smiling and laughing in no time at all.

Mystery, Magic and Enchantment
Filled with dragons, fairies and witches, these tales and tunes of fantasy and wonderment will delight and inspire your imagination. Come prepared to open up your mind and your heart to the magic and mystery of the universe!

Trick or Treat! Halloween Tales of Haunts and Humor
Come on out, if you dare, and listen to some deliciously chilling and silly tales of witches and goblins and things that go bump in the night. This 45-minute program of stories and songs is especially appropriate for the very young and the faint of heart.

Holiday Treats: Tales & Tunes to Celebrate the Season
Join Lynne on a nostalgic look back to a simpler time when the holidays were filled with wonder.

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