NSN Storyteller Profile ... Slash Coleman

Best known for his PBS special and Off-Broadway one man show, “The Neon Man and Me,” award winning storyteller, Slash Coleman, has also been featured as a 2011 Teller-in-Residence at the International Storytelling Center, 2010 National Storytelling Conference (Fringe), 2009 National Storytelling Festival (Exchange Place), the 2008 Oral History Performance Conference at Columbia University, at LANES, the LA Storytelling Festival, the Lower Brandywine Storytelling Festival, and Stone Soup Storytelling Festival.

A regular contributor to Storytelling Magazine, Slash is also the creator of the he acclaimed two-part class entitled “Make More Money with Your Art." As a result, he??™s been featured nationally at dozens of universities, conferences, community art organizations and most recently in the NPR series, “How Artists Make Money.”

Descended from a grandfather who was a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, a grandmother who was a painter, and a father who is a prolific sculptor, Slash draws much of his material from being raised by an offbeat, creative family. Often addressing the outright humor of being raised Jewish in the south by family of immigrants, his stories also speak of the profound cultural challenges he??™s experienced and the inspiration he continues to draw from his own mother who is a Holocaust survivor. With a personal history steeped in a duality of skepticism and faith, discouragement and hope, his fresh, Generation X perspective and distinctive voice have been a welcome addition to the storytelling world. He is the co-producer of the Annual International Holocaust Memorial Exhibit.

Personal, Childhood, Judiasm,

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All schools k-12 and college in VA, MD, DC, NC

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National Storytelling Network (NSN), Virginia Storytelling Alliance (VASA), Writers Guild