Norah Dooley aka LaToscaSalta

storyteller, author, educator

massmouth.com

Norah Dooley is a storyteller, critically acclaimed children’ s author and educator , a co-founder of massmouth.com, and a story slam series in Greater Boston. Norah’s widely acclaimed picture book, Everybody Cooks Rice is one of four about her former neighborhood in Cambridge, MA. She has 6 storytelling CDs and a MEd in Creative Arts in Learning, Middle School. Norah teaches storytelling, performance skills, directs theater and performs in schools, libraries and teacher’s conferences. She featured as storyteller in many Revels Shows the Cambridge River Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Albany NY River Festival, 3 Apples Storytelling Festival, MA and at the Clearwater Festival. "I grew up in NYC on Staten Island. It was relatively rural - the lady next door raised chickens-- hundreds of them. When I was 5 years old, our mother cut the cord to our TV and sent us into the wide/wild world to play. We went into the woods as Robin Hood,W.W.II combat soldiers and Knights of the Round Table. Using tree branches to make bows,arrows,guns, swords and scenarios, we played all day, every day. We were geeks"