Robin Bady is an award-winning storyteller and arts educator with over 35 years of experience performing all over the world. A true multi-hyphenate — storyteller, actress, director, writer, teacher — Robin has dedicated her craft to inspiring others in the most personal, human way we know — through stories.
Robin is not limited by genre — her portfolio boasts everything from ghost stories to folklore to literary storytelling to deeply personal storytelling to Moth Slams. She performs for families, children and adults in venues large and small.
As a teaching artist in New York City, she has worked with the Flushing Town Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Self-Help Virtual Center, Brooklyn Arts Council, Lifetime Arts, Elder Share the Arts, Dorot, Henry Street Settlement, University Settlement, CityLore, ArtsConnection, as well as all three library systems of New York City. She has toured China, Germany, Croatia, Ireland and Canada with shows and workshops on storytelling. She is a mentor for teaching artists through Lifetime Arts.
She is currently touring her one-woman show “Nancy Drewinsky and the Search for the Missing Letter,” the story of her family’s experiences during McCarthyism. She is the curator of “No, We Won’t Shut Up!” — a show highlighting women’s stories about issues such as sexual assault, racism, bigotry, and gentrification — which has been seen at Fringes, festivals and conferences.
Robin is the recipient of the 2012 J.J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Award and the 2015 Oracle Award for Service and Leadership, both from the National Storytelling Network. She has received four SuCasa Grants from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. She has served as Director of the Storytelling Center of New York City.
Robin hosts the monthly series, BADYHouse Storytelling Concerts in her home in Brooklyn, which she shares with her husband Tom and their regal cat — Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth.
Publications: The Button, STORYTELLING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM, Libraries Unlimited, NH; Confessions of a Coached Storyteller, STORYTELLING MAGAZINE, January 2013; Fairytales, Power and Status, STORYTELLING MAGAZINE, June 2013; Considering House Concerts, STORYTELLING MAGAZINE, August 2015.
