Discover the secrets of live, true, personal storytelling – à la The Moth and Back Fence PDX – in one night.
This workshop offers proven tips for structure, description, pacing, body language, and voice to help you master delivering your stories in the most memorable, compelling way possible. If you have always burned to tell your stories for the stage or radio, or if you want to radically upgrade your presentation game and put all those boring power pointers to shame, this workshop is for you.
Mindy Nettifee is an award-winning writer and storytelling producer for the beloved Portland show Back Fence PDX. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections - Sleepyhead Assassins (Moon Tide Press) and Rise of the Trust Fall (Write Bloody Press), and a collection of essays on writing - Glitter In The Blood (Write Bloody Press), a Powell's Books Indie Press Best Seller. She has a MA in Depth Psychology with a specialization in somatics, and has performed and taught at over 500 colleges and venues around the US. You can hear one of her stories on The Moth podcast, and visit her online at www.thecultofmindy.com
B Frayn Masters is the Creator, Executive Producer, and Host of theBack Fence PDX storytelling series — and is also the PDX Producer for The Moth GrandSLAM. She was voted Best Storyteller/Spoken Word Artist for the 2015 Willamette Week’s Best Of issue. Masters was lucky enough to be a guest performer in w00stock 2.1, which starred the super funny Wil Wheaton, Adam Savage, and Paul & Storm. Samples of her literary leanings can be found in Airplane Reading, MonkeyBicycle 6, Hobart, SPORK and Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists. She puts most of the monies in her bank account as a voice over artist and as an animation and commercial scriptwriter. She swoons for good stories.
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