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MPLS: Jim Stowell - Stories of the US Forest Service

  • American School of Storytelling 1762 Hennepin Avenue South Minneapolis, MN, 55403 United States (map)

September 9, November 11, March 9, and May 11

A four performace series of the essential Jim Stowell autobiographical stories, many of which have not been performed in a decade or more.

“Rio Bravo / Rio Grande” parts 1 and 2 detail life and times of living on the border, in McAllen, Texas with all the complications of guns, grit and immigration.

“Talking Pictures” the third installment of this series brings us to Nicaragua and Cuba, while the fourth performance will provide a glimpse of  Jim’s many years working for the US Forest Service and lessons learned at the lighthouse on Raspberry Island.

A professional actor, director, playwright and storyteller for around fifty years, Jim has written and directed eleven full cast plays, including two children’s plays, two adaptations, a Spanish language one-act and the book for a musical comedy that has been running somewhere in America for the last 17 years  and produced three spinoffs.

Jim has written and performed twelve one man plays that were commissioned and produced by six different theaters in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. His work has also been performed in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, in a big blue tent in Northern Wisconsin, an Art Center in Mexico, a theater in Guatemala, a school in Nicaragua, a banana plantation in Honduras and a jungle village in Brazil.

Tickets for the series ($50) at https://americanschoolofstorytelling.com/event/jim-stowell-performace-series/