07/19/2021
Storytellers of the High Plains is sponsoring a performance by award winning storyteller, Andy Offutt Irwin on July 28 at 1:30 p.m. in the Hazelwood Lecture Hall of the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum.
Andy Offutt Irwin is an arts educator, theatre director, songwriter, comedian, keynote speaker, and traveling writer and storyteller. As a one-person showman, Andy has been a perennial favorite of the Teller-in-Residence Program at the International storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee and has been a featured teller at the National Storytelling Festival ten times. From 1991 to 2007 he was Artist in Residence at Oxford College of Emory University where in 2001 he was the recipient of the Sammy Clark Award of Exemplary Teaching and Service. He continues providing theatre and service projects for Emory’s Oxford Campus. From 1993-2015 Andy was a teaching artist with Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta. He is a recipient of seven Storytelling World awards, two Just Plains Folks Award and in 2013 he received the oracle Circle of Excellence Award from the National Storytelling Network.
Irwin’s performance is made possible by the Storytellers of the High Plains which is devoted to sharing the art of storytelling in the Texas Panhandle. Local teller, Eldrena Douma, who serves on storytelling boards both in New Mexico and Oklahoma, says of Irwin’s performances, “He produces all of these sound effects that not only make you laugh, but also adds a unique storytelling perspective.”
Tickets to the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum can be purchased online (https://54067.blackbaudhosting.com/54067/PPHM-Online-Ticket-Sales-28Jul2021)
