storyteller

1 someone who tells a story [syn: narrator, teller]

2 someone who tells lies [syn: fibber, fabricator]

English

Etymology

From story + tell + -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

1. a person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.

A storyteller is someone who conveys real or fictitious events in words, images, and sounds.

Storyteller may also refer to:

In music:

• Storyteller (album), compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan.
• Storyteller, an album by Raghav, an Indian-Canadian musician on V2 Records.
• Storyteller - The Complete Anthology: 1964-1990, a four CD compilation of songs by Rod Stewart.
• The Storyteller (band), heavy metal band from Sweden formed in late 1995

In television:

• The Storyteller is a live-action/puppet television series, created and produced by Jim Henson.
• VH1 Storytellers is a television series produced by the VH1 network.
• "Storyteller" (Buffy episode), the sixteenth episode of season 7 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Storyteller, live-action/puppet television series created and produced by Jim Henson in 1987
• "The Storyteller" (DS9 episode), first-season episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• "The Storyteller" (The Twilight Zone), The Twilight Zone episode

In movies:

• The Storyteller (2009) is psychological drama starting Katharine McPhee and Wes Bentley

In other fields:

• Story teller, a magazine
• Storyteller System, system base for White Wolf's role-playing games
• The Storyteller Sequence, sequence of one-act dramas for young people by Philip Ridley

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