Fran Carlisi-Paxson is a player: an actor whose heart beats in her profession. She performs stories - tall stories, ghost stories, legends, histories, and tales from around the world. She plays her stories at festivals, schools, libraries, cultural centers, and anywhere folks gather around her to listen. She creates roles of cooks and maids and servants eavesdropping on the lives of the great.

She plays noblewomen, clowns, and judges by William Shakespeare, and flutterbrains by Neil Simon. She appears in films of all kinds. She sings, dances, and mugs in Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas. Everything she does instills her fast-paced presentations with energy, humor, and lively interaction with audiences of all ages. She loves her work, and she loves her listeners.