Transforming Sibling Rivalry or What Theater and Storytelling Can Offer Each Other and Our Audience

July 12, 2007

9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Room TBA 

What are successful alternatives to the Storytelling Festival model that has dominated the American storytelling revival?  How can producers craft an audience’s journey through an event as a storyteller crafts a journey through a story?

Come take a hands-on look at what an audience wants and expects from performance and what makes for successful theater-based collaborations.  We will balance frank discussions of what works and what doesn't with a checklist of skills and vision needed to develop and manage successful events.  Central to the experience: participants will inventory their organizational and geographic strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats; then develop a blueprint for building relationships, partnerships and audience.

 Presenters:

Joel Bassin, PhD (Assistant Professor of Theater, Hunter College/CUNY, New York , Consulting Manger for The Wooster Group ensemble theater)

Nancy Donoval, MFA/Theater (Storyteller, Producer, Story Coach)

Loren Niemi (Storyteller, Producer, Cultural Commentator)

Megan Wells, MFA/Theater (Storyteller, Actress, Illinois Storytelling Inc. Board President)  

Storytelling: Reflecting Our Past; Creating Your Future