Jon Spelman’s performances are beautifully written and richly various.

These performances are sometimes simple storytelling, as old-fashioned and engrossing as campfire tales; performing that’s so retro it’s brand new.

At other times, he presents fully staged theatrical works, as up-to-date as the latest scientific discoveries about personal communication and the creative workings of the brain.

He forges direct connections with his audiences. Your mind is Jon’s medium. His performances awake personal memories, tie together previously unrelated imaginative threads, and evoke laughter, curiosity, suspense, and an occasional tear.

Jon is also a teacher of creative writing and personal performance, a workshop leader, an educator, a mentor, and a spokesperson for the idea that Narrative Matters.

Jon’s Podcasts:

Jon Spelman / Out of the Ice: Listen as one man tries to follow his mind for 200 years. Join Jon on a narrative journey in six episodes; a tale that is part science fiction and part historical journal.

Jon Spelman / Once Time: Take a hike with Jon Spelman through a world of tall tales, folk stories and the winding woods of the Appalachian storytelling tradition. Sit by the fire while overnight hikers Council Register and Route Hog tell Jon about such happenings as the fight between a frog and snake, a magical rabbit whistle, Polly the dancing witch, the mermaid in the cow pond, and how Jock the trickster fools his way into riches. Once Time is a story in 11 episodes full of tales a little too magic to be real and a little too real to be totally made up.