Dolores Hydock

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Dolores Hydock

Dolores Hydock (born c. 1952 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an actor and storyteller.

Hydock began performing with her sisters and neighborhood friends as a child. She enrolled at George Washington University in Washington D.C. and then took a year off to travel in Europe. When she returned to the United States she transferred to Yale University to study American folklore. For her senior thesis she took on the subject of the Folklore of the American South and found her way to Horse Pens Forty where she was mentored by Warren Musgrove.

After graduating, Hydock settled in Birmingham and became a frequent performer for programs in the Birmingham Public Library system and at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Leeds Community Arts Center and other venues, as well as at festivals. She has performed extensively in stage productions and as a the lead in one-woman shows for Birmingham Festival Theatre and Terrific New Theatre, including her own works.

Hydock and David Doggett co-founded the Association of Cajun Music Enthusiasts (ACME) in 1992. Hydock has served as a featured storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and as "Teller-in-Residence" at the International Storytelling Center there. She has released numerous recordings of her original stories and has taught in the drama program at Birmingham-Southern College.

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