Tama Lunceford, Storyteller
Tama Lunceford’s vivid imagination, expressive manner and colorful use of language touch the minds and hearts of listeners through stories. She tells all kinds of stories including folktales, fairy tales, Jack tales, tall tales, personal, historical, and hysterical stories. Tama has created collections of original stories one she calls Tom Tales; all tall tales based on stories she heard from her father, Tom and other she calls Bob Tales, stories collected from her husband Bob. Tama has also crafted a compilation of original stories she calls stories that simply need to be told. This anthology targets social issues and is focused on motivating change.
As a performing member of the Jonesborough Storytellers Guild (JSG), Tama can often be heard spreading stories from the stage of the International Storytelling Center during the Guild's Stories n More programs. Tama has served on the Executive Board of the Jonesborough Storytellers Guild and is a member of the National Storytelling Network. She served as a founding committee member of the Storytellers Relief Fund a charitable function of Artists Standing Strong Together focused on helping storytellers through the havoc of the Covid19 crisis. She earned a Master of Arts Degree in Communication Storytelling at East Tennessee State University in December of 2019 and currently teaches Communication Studies for Walters State Community College in Morristown, TN as an adjunct professor. Tama has presented at conferences for both the Tennessee and Southern States Communication Associations. She volunteers her talents as a bedside storyteller with Ballad Health, as well as telling with several community organizations in Morristown, TN. She further supports the art of storytelling in the community as Coordinator of Storytelling for JSG monthly performances at Crumley House, a brain injury and closed head injury rehabilitation community in Limestone, TN, and the Christopher Taylor Cabin, an historical site in downtown
Jonesborough. Tama facilitates monthly storytelling workshops for the Guild and coordinates Storytelling for the annual
Mountain Makins Festival in Morristown, TN.
Jonesborough. Tama facilitates monthly storytelling workshops for the Guild and coordinates Storytelling for the annual
Mountain Makins Festival in Morristown, TN.
Tama grew up in a small town in Northern New York where there are still more cows than people. After graduating Kueka College with a Bachelors degree in Social Work and a short career in community mental health, Tama landed in Detroit where she met her husband. As their boys approached the teenage years, they choose to move to beautiful East Tennessee. Fast forward eighteen years, Tama, now a widow, moved to the Music City, Nashville TN in 2023! There she looks forward to embracing urban life and welcoming her latest grandchild!
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