Pedaling Hard on the Cycle of Life

Dolores Hydock is an actress and storyteller, and her work has been featured at a variety of concerts, festivals, and special events throughout the country. She has been a featured storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, a Teller-in-Residence at Jonesborough’s International Storytelling Center, and her 11 recordings of original stories have all received Resource Awards from Storytelling World Magazine.

Hydock lives in Birmingham, Alabama. In her spare time, she tends a garden that includes a pomegranate bush, muscadine vines, blueberry bushes, a 20-foot jujuba tree, and a family of slugs the size of cheap cigars. She’s held a wide variety of jobs: a house parent at a halfway house for juvenile delinquents, a blues DJ, an au pair in Paris for three small children, a computer sales representative for IBM, a cookbook copy editor, an acting teacher at Birmingham-Southern College, and a teacher of Cajun dancing. If anyone questions her strange path through such a variety of jobs, she simply says that it’s all just material for her stories. Vist her website for more.

Sponsored by the estate of Frances Long
Interpreted for the deaf and hearing impaired

Media Sponsorship: WFYI
Videographer Sponsorship: Chatham Tap
Interpreter Sponsorship: Jim Obermaier and Sally Perkins