More

Hannah Harvey

Hannah HarveyHannah HarveyHannah Harvey

“very funny” 

-Theatre Guide London

  

“deeply moving” 

-Classical Voice of NC
        

"five stars" 

-British Theatre Guide

contact

storyteller & teaching artist

Hannah Harvey

Hannah HarveyHannah HarveyHannah Harvey

“very funny” 

-Theatre Guide London

  

“deeply moving” 

-Classical Voice of NC
        

"five stars" 

-British Theatre Guide

contact

storyteller & teaching artist

Hannah is a professional storyteller & an award-winning teacher.

artist-scholar approach...

Because of Dr. Harvey's focus on the power of everyday story performance to form individual and cultural identity, her work has been featured on a variety of platforms, from The National Storytelling Festival to Yale University’s Psychiatric Grand Rounds, and in three courses on storytelling with The Great Courses.

what she does...

Storytelling Performances

Hannah's stories connect specific moments to universal experiences, and global fairytales to our real lives.  She has a wide repertoire, with a focus on southern Appalachian oral histories, and on the cultural and cross-cultural contexts of traditional folk tales.  


Contemporary Coal Miners' Oral Histories

Strong Women and Men in Appalachia

Global Folk & Fairytales ~ for kids and grown-ups

Origins of U.S. Holiday Traditions

Workshops & Keynotes

Hannah has tailored workshops and keynotes on developing memorable, confident, and ethical storytelling for:


     small business owners

     multinational corporations

     interim pastors

     psychiatrists

     K-12 teachers

     lawyers

     rural physicians

     business leadership groups

     folklorists

     festival goers


...in the eastern U.S., U.K., & in Casablanca, Morocco.

Current Collaborations

Dr. Harvey has partnered with ballad singer and folklorist Dr. Katie Hoffman in the Rachis Project, focusing on adapting, staging and contextualizing stories and works by and about Appalachian women.

a few reviews...

“Her stories, like a family tree, draw webbed lines from the present deep into the past...with humor and gravity in the telling, Harvey strives to give voice to a contemporary Appalachian identity richer and more complex than any of the stereotypes about the region she loves.”     — Blue Ridge Magazine


“Hannah is a wonderful wordsmith, an energetic and articulate teller, with a remarkable insight into the souls of her characters.”        — Storytelling Festival of Carolina


“I live and work in Shanghai, China. I am a language curriculum designer and teachers trainer. I took Dr. Harvey’s course on The Great Courses. I enjoyed it and practiced Dr. Harvey’s storytelling methods in my class. It was magic. The most wonderful thing is I feel happy when I tell stories to students.  My students listened well, so well that we all immersed as a whole.”       —Emma Chen, Shanghai, China



quoted in...

Wall St. Journal

"For Harvey, telling stories and being from Appalachia were one in the same."

PBS news hour

fun with audiences...

    bookings: hannah.covestory@gmail.com

    please put "STORYTELLING INQUIRY" in the title of your email

    CoveStory

    Copyright © 2025 CoveStory - All Rights Reserved.

    Powered by