Ralph Chatham Email: ralph.chatham@verizon.net Phone: 703-698-5456 Address: 2631 Kirklyn St. Falls Church, VA 22043

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Introduction:

     Ralph Chatham started formal storytelling in 1979 300 feet underwater to a submarine crew who had not seen even arctic sunlight for six weeks. He has been telling ever since to more critical audiences including at a Sea Story Showcase at the 1999 National Storytelling Conference. His storytelling survival workshop: OOPS and other Storytelling Disasters was featured at the 2001 National Conference. He has three tapes of newfangled folktales, defrosted for the microwave age, featuring Jack and Clever Jill and a supporting cast of several other strong women (more on the tapes below). Ralph and his storyteller wife, Margaret, have been past Presidents of the Washington-area storytelling guild, Voices in the Glen. Both have twice been featured tellers at the MidAtlantic Storytellers Gathering. Ralph supports his storytelling habit as Technical Handwaver and manager of Training Superiority programs for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency where he tells technical stories. He regularly performs at local Celtic and Folk and Story festivals. He tells stories at the drop of a hat from here to Hawaii. He brings his own hat to make sure.