Creating Stage-Worthy Personal Stories In Person Workshop

Welcome to Seattle’s playground for fearless creatives.This is where fun meets growth, and awkward meets awesome. You’ll learn to:•	Listen like a boss•	Conquer fears without flinching•	Spark wild creativity•	Meet your people•	Solve problems on the fly•	Fail fast, bounce back faster•	Say YES to everything life throws at you•	Think quicker, live louder, and ditch the comfort zoneWhether you’re here to own the stage or just break out of your routine, you’ll grow, laugh, and leave more confident than you came in.

The Improv School Unexpected Productions Seattle

Learn to tell a narrative story or any story on online, on stage, work, and with friends. Get comfortable on stage.

Unexpected Productions' Market Theater

Share your story. Learn the power of personal narrative and the art and power of vulnerability. Starting 7/25. In this fun 6-week class, you take your life experiences and develop personal stories that are relatable, engaging, and entertaining. This workshop explores the art of oral storytelling including story creation, enhancement, and presentation. Learn simple practical story guidelines and step-by-step tools, to create incredible honest stories from your life experience. Kent’s personable presentation style on the creative process combined with small groups, large groups, and individual writing and improv exercises will take you through a fun process of developing a stage-worthy story over 6 weeks. Learn how to share stories that are genuine, generous, and vulnerable in a fun creative space. We use the writing tools from Natalie Goldberg's book, Writing Down the Bones, narrative improv games, the use of sense memory, and unique storytelling techniques to create a “stage-worthy” story. This workshop is perfect for novice storytellers, or a chance to add to the skillset of a seasoned performer. Come share your story.Attendance at the first session of your class is mandatory as it sets the agenda for the entire class. If you think you will have to miss the first class, please consider registering for the next quarter.Skills offered in class: Successful storytelling techniquesHow to identify story arcidentify the difference of scenic detail versus narrative descriptionHow to create story stakesHow to identify story-worthy material How to gain audience trustBecome comfortable on stage or onlineObjective: To create a stage-worthy to be presented in front of a live audienceAny Unvaccinated Students Are Asked To Wear A MaskDates : 6 Sundays July 25 - August 29 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm  NOTE: Attendance at the first session of your course is mandatory as it sets the agenda for the entire quarter. If you think you will have to miss the first class, please consider registering for the next time the class is offered.Location: Market Theatre 1428 Post Alley Seattle 98101Maximum Students: 12Cost: $200Prerequisite: NoneAges: 18+Teacher Bio:Kent Whipple has shared stories throughout the country. He has participated in many Moth StorySLAMs (and won the first Moth StorySLAM he attended) and Moth GrandSLAMs. He has been featured on the Risk! podcast three times. By audience vote, he was named Best of Bawdy Storyteller for 2019. He is a story coach for Ignite Seattle. He is the resident storytelling teacher at Unexpected Productions Improv, where he also hosts Inside Story, a storytelling show. In the Fall of 2021, he will be featured on the PBS show, Stories from the Stage, which illustrates the power of real stories told by masterful storytellers and is produced by WORLD Channel in collaboration with GBH and in partnership with Tell&Act. Throughout the PNW, he has performed at Fresh Ground Stories, the Intersections Festival, Bawdy Storytelling, Bad Date Storytelling, Over the Rainbow Storytelling and Do Tell: Humorous Storytelling.He has mentored with Natalie Goldberg author of Writing Down the Bones, and studied with Larry Rosen: The Moth, Kevin Allison, and Brad Lawrence: Risk! Podcast, Margot Leitman, author of Long Story Short: The Only Storytelling Guide You Will Ever Need, Matthews Dicks, author of Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling, Joan Logghe – Poet Laureate of New Mexico, Ron Reid: Stand-Up Comedy, Matt Smith: Improv for Writers, and Randy Dixon: Improv for Writing.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Kentstoryteller/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/Kentstoryteller/</a>"Such a great telling of the story and the audience reaction was amazing."Kevin Allison, Risk! Podcast, 9/18“Kent Whipple is a treasure.”Paul Currington, Producer, Fresh Ground Stories**Cancellation policy: If you must cancel before the first class, we offer credit only towards a future class. We are unable to offer refunds. If you cancel after the first class, we will not offer credit towards a future class. Again, we are unable to offer refunds.

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