Joan Leotta is both a performer and a writer. Her motto is “Encouraging words through pen and performance.” She has twenty-five years of experience giving programs in schools, museums, libraries, community stages, private parties, and corporate functions. Joan gives custom folklore programs, combination writing and storytelling shows, storytelling instruction, teacher workshops, programs for adults on telling, writing, and creativity and week-long residencies for children and adults on storytelling and telling and writing. She has received awards for her poems, performance stories for children and for adults.
