Karen Rae Kraut is a freelance professional storyteller, touring and teaching artist, workshop presenter, and keynote speaker. Her storytelling musical extravaganzas are adaptations of world folktales, adding music, movement, songs and audience participation.

A Storyteller's version of Mozart's last opera, The Magic Flute, with opera singer Mark Almy, commissioned by the McCallum Theatre Institute and Vaudeville Mystery Theatre with musician Rainbow Casey and dancer April Rhodes are Kraut's latest offerings.

The crown of her English/Spanish bi-lingual programs is The Prairie Flowers: Songs and Stories of the Wild, Wild West, featuring the true story of Elfego Baca, from 1884 New Mexico.

Karen's CD Cooler Water Cora and Other Stories is the winner of a National Parenting Publications Honors Award and an iParenting Media Award for Audio Excellence.

Workshops include:
• Story Hour Stretches with the Brain in Mind
• Techniques of Storytelling
• Drawing Stories
• Stories, Songs and More for World Holidays
• Children's Singing and Dancing Games for the Classroom