Welcome to the website of Omar & Lori Hansen, professional storytellers!

"Omar and Lori Hansen have a collaborative ease as performers that can only come from years of being and working together. Their onstage partnership reflects their life partnership. They've worked at both, love their work and each other, and it glows.

"The more you hear of Omar Hansen's work, both the telling of stories and the singing of songs, the more you appreciate him and his talent. He's a serious artist, with a solid, comfortable presence, and a huge heart.

Lori Hansen's storytelling is a lovely blend of warm accessibility and thoughtful artistry. Watching her perform is like finding out that your beloved, loads-of-fun college roommate has become an exquisite cello player."
                  -- Michael Parent, Storyteller

Combining a rich theatrical background, their love of folk tales and folk music, and a propensity for writing, Omar & Lori Hansen join forces to create a unique style of tandem storytelling.

Omar & Lori have tandem-told stories for the past l5 years; everywhere from schools, to libraries, to storytelling festivals around the country, including the Exchange Place at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

Omar is an award-winning, published playwright, and has written the majority of their tandem work. With a repertoire of zany characters, and a flair for the silly, Omar has created numerous stories that have delighted audiences of all ages for many years. His works also include several two-person shows, which are of a more serious note, covering issues such as the women of the Oregon Trail and the legend of the Selkie. Omar loves incorporating music into their storytelling pieces, using the guitar, his voice, and a rich folk song repertoire, he knows just the right songs to enrich his and Lori’s stories. Omar enjoys telling personal tales of his mid-western upbringing, as well as historical pieces.

Lori loves pairing personal stories with classic folk tales, legends and myths, as well as stories that blossom from her childhood, and her experiences as the mother of five children. Lori has a theatre education background and over the years has taught storytelling, children's theatre, and directed numerous children's theatre productions.

Together, they can bring you a world of stories, complete with folk songs and original music, and laughs a-plenty. Along with the laughs, you will discover a poignancy to their stories, and experience a heartfelt communication between tellers and audience, that only storytelling can provide.