Brother Blue dresses in blue, from his socks to his beret to the butterflies painted on his palms. Brother Blue spends a lot of his time in prisons and on street corners. Why would you want to listen to Brother Blue?
"I think I was anointed to be a storyteller - I mean touched by the fire," says Brother Blue. "I can tell stories in my sleep and blow the world away!"
A blue banner across
...morehis chest reads "Brother Blue, Storyteller." Brother Blue is also known as Hugh Morgan Hill, Ph.D. For the past 30 years, he's been telling his stories in public. Brother Blue is the official storyteller of Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He's earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard with honors and a master's degree in playwriting from Yale Drama Schoool. Brother Blue is an ordained minister who transmits his stories and love of stories to a far-reaching audience.
"I bring Homer to the streets. I bring Sophocles," Brother Blue says. "To tell stories, you should know Chaucer. You should know Shakespeare. You should know Keats.
You have to be constantly reading. You read, you think, you create. You have to know the new moves: You must be able to rap and be able to sing the blues!"
Brother Blue transforms the classics into a modern setting. He places his version of Romeo and Juliet in the inner city. He has updated the plight of King Lear-Shakespeare's aged, battered royal hero-to talk about the homeless people of today. ...hide 
