Máire Clerkin : Máire is a performer, choreographer, teacher, coach, storyteller and writer. Living in Los Angeles, California, she is from London, of Irish parents. Since the 1980s, Máire produced and toured in Irish dance theatre and comedy with her companies ; taught and adjudicated Irish Dancing; and presented on BBC radio & TV as a choreographer and broadcast journalist before emigrating to California in 2003. Since then Máire has trained in California arts education and is a master teaching artist in multiple school districts with L.A. Arts Group, The Music Center, and Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Máire founded A Gaelic Gathering – Irish Music & Dance ensemble, touring schools for 15 years.
Máire is director of the Summer Youth Program in San Francisco’s United Irish Cultural Center, and is currently a popular storyteller in schools, libraries and online as Story Maura with Once Upon a Time in Ireland. Máire’s screenplay The Jig is Up won Best First Time Feature with Golden Pen Awards and is now in development.
Description of programs: Máire 'STORY MAURA' reads and enacts enchanting folk tales from Ireland's rich culture with Celtic legends of leprechauns, fairies and giants! Máire invites audience participation with rhymes, songs, body percussion, and dancing - give it a go! Each story is an adventure of fun and magic. Adaptable for students of all ages.
- The Pot of Gold
- Finn McCool & The Giant's Causeway
- The Magic Shoes
- The King's Secret
- Tír na nóg
- The Piper and the Púca
- Children of Lír
- and many more...
