Storyteller profile: Syd Lieberman

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series of six profiles of storytellers performing at the Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival.

Syd Lieberman is one of six featured performers at the Cape Girardeau Storytelling Festival, which runs April 9 through 11. Lieberman is an internationally acclaimed storyteller, author, and award-winning teacher. Many of his stories deal with growing up and raising a family in Chicago.

He has won awards from the American Library Association, Parent's Choice and Storytelling World. He has taught storytelling at the Kennedy Center and Walt Disney World, and written pieces for NASA; the Smithsonian Institution; Historic Philadelphia and Johnstown, Pa. He is now creating stories for the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center and teaching its 180 docents and volunteers how to tell stories.

Lieberman has published two books -- "The Wise Shoemaker of Studena" and "Streets and Alleys: Stories with a Chicago Accent" -- and produced 15 CDs.