Donna Washington is an award-winning  internationally known master storyteller, artist-educator, and author who has been performing for audiences of all ages for over thirty-four years. A highly animated performer, she has been entertaining, educating, and inspiring audiences with her vocal pyrotechnics, elastic face, and deep characterizations that bring folklore, literary tales, and personal narratives to life.  She is renowned for her storytelling or both children and adults from poignant and funny fables about the human condition to  spine-tingling tales of terror.  She has been featured at numerous festivals, schools and libraries, theaters and other venues around the world inluding Canada, Peru, Argentina and Hong Kong.  During the pandemic, she has presented over two hundred shows and workshops virtually online.  In 2020, she founded the non-profit organization Artists Standing Strong Together with Master Storyteller Sheila Arnold.

Donna's eleven storytelling CD's have garnered thirty national awards.  She has authored numerous articles about storytelling and education including her very popular blog Language, Literacy & Storytelling.  She is also the author of four children's books: L'il Rabbit's Kwanzaa, A Pride of African Tales, The Story of Kwanzaa, A Big Spooky House, and Boo Stew.  Peachtree Press is scheduled to publish her next picture book, Prak Fills The House,   in September 2023.  She travels all over the world performing and giving workshops.  She lives with her husband and two cats in Durham, NC.