AMBRA ALLGOOD uses her love of life and nature to guide and encourage. She is a professional storyteller and member of The Guild of Idaho Storytellers and has performed in theatre as well as storytelling in the Northwestern States for over 35 years. Ambra has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from The University of Utah, and a Master of Arts Degree in Education from Boise State University.

She has taught school for 25 years in Idaho, as well as being a teacher and artist in residence in Utah, Washington, and Idaho for both private and public schools. She has taught as adjunct faculty at The University of Utah and Boise State University where her workshops in storytelling, puppetry and creative dramatics are embraced by educators who aspire to develop their students’ imagination and creativity.

• Current Offerings:
• Story Concert: Fairytales, Folktales, Fables, Myths, and Cultural Tales for the young and the young at heart. Ambra is available for your Birthday Parties, Cultural Events, Holiday Celebrations, Festivals, Libraries, Schools, Daycares and Children’s Story Hour at Bookstores. Contact: 208-585-2455
• The Art of Storytelling: Encourages and promotes reading and writing using creative imagination, shared experience, responsibility, teamwork and the values that build self esteem. Ages 4-100.
• Literacy and Storytelling Workshops for educators of preschool through college. Motivate and inspire your students’ creative imagination while developing the reading-writing-speaking-performance connection through spontaneous and fun theatre games and storytelling.
• Little Shakespeares: Experiential story creation through improvisation and theatre games enhances confidence in reading, writing, speaking and performing the ancient tradition of storytelling. Class size is limited to 7 students, ages 6-9 years of age.
•  Young Shakespeares: Build your self-confidence in performance while you play theatre games, create improvisations, use poems and storylines, as well as re-told stories and bring them to life in Story Theatre. Class size is limited to 9 students. This class is designed for children aged 8-12 years of age. 
• Improv Sports: This is a delightfully fun filled and exhilarating workshop for both young and old and provides the building blocks for further development in the  performing arts and the reading-writing-speaking performance connection. Ages 10-100.  Call Ambra 585-2455
• Comments  about  Ambra

"Delightfully unique, Ambra’s background of experience gives her an uncanny ability for improvising stories with audiences of all ages."

Dr. Coston Frederick

Kimbre Chapman, Children’s Librarian, Caldwell Public Library, Caldwell, Idaho

Christa Rowland and Student Programs Board, Boise State University

Brad Talbutt at The Idaho Statesman Newspaper wrote an article on Ambra:  http://www.idahostatesman.com/eyepiece/story/292052.html

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