Storyteller · Author · Educator · Comedian · Producer
The Untamed Scholar
Where scholarship meets imagination.Storytelling, visual art, and thoughtful academic guidance with Cynthia Millhorn, M.A., M.A.
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Cynthia Millhorn, M.A., M.A.
Many things.
All of them true.
Cynthia Millhorn is a storyteller, educator, author, performer, and visual artist who refuses to be just one thing. Scholarly and spirited. Warm and wickedly funny. A performer who holds grief with tenderness and opens a window to joy—sometimes in the same breath.
She holds dual master’s degrees in Communication & Storytelling Studies and Liberal Studies and is a performing member of the Jonesborough Storytellers’ Guild. Her work spans live performance, literary publication, visual art, theatrical development, and film, alongside mathematics tutoring and academic coaching. A person of faith and a mentor to young people, Cynthia brings curiosity, care, and purpose to helping others find their voice, build confidence, and recognize their possibilities. Storytelling runs through it all, delivered with wit, warmth, and artistry.
Every room tells a different story.
The Conservatory is a creative platform with many doors. Each one opens into a different world — all of them hers.
Stories That Heal
Grief & growth performances, workshops, and speaking engagements. For the ones who need to hear that this is not the end of their story.
One Strike Productions
Film, theatre, and stage. Women's stories told with precision, humor, and the irreverence they deserve.
The Linen Pages
Publishing house and imprint for fiction, memoir, folktales, and the female voice in all its forms.
The Podcasts
Bedtime Stories That Shape Us. The Story Garage. Any Witch Way. Three shows. One storyteller who never runs out of things to say.
Tutoring & Admissions
Two master's degrees and a commitment to helping students find the story they need to tell to get where they're going.
The Gallery
A curated record of performances, events, and the life of a working artist who never stops creating.
Daughters
Brothers Grimm · Deconstructed · One Hour · One Woman · Four Archetypes
These are deconstructed magical tales that explore the reality of women in dire, real-world circumstances — with limited choices and impossible stakes.
And yet — limited choices are still choices. Each woman must decide. Good or evil, the consequences are hers to own, regardless of what brought her to the door.
Daughters leads you into a world of unexpected reimagining — shades of gray, moral complexity, and women who refuse to be simply explained. Shockingly relatable. Thought-provoking. And more inspiring than you'll see coming.
"She belongs on Broadway." — Jamie Kohn
Outstanding Graduate Capstone, ETSU 2024. Performed at Atlanta Fringe Festival, The Wallace Theatre, and beyond.
The audience always speaks.
Cynthia has an extraordinary gift for meeting people exactly where they are and taking them exactly where they need to go.
— Jessica Phillips, Audience Member, Live Performance
She is the most naturally funny, deeply intelligent performer I have seen in years. The audience was in tears — one minute because of laughter and the next because of the beautiful emotion she stirs in your heart.
— Sharron Wagner, Audience Member, Live Performance