StoryFest 2024, SAM’s all-day celebration of storytelling at the Bloomington Center for the Arts on Saturday, May 4, kicks off with a ticketed 90-minute intensive workshop, 9:30-11:00am, led by Jim Stowell.
In Jim Stowell’s work there is “love, humor, danger and hope.” Critical praise for his storytelling often focuses on his ability to “create entire worlds on stage.” In this participatory workshop, Jim will present fundamental techniques to help your own audiences develop an emotional investment in your story and its characters. When you succeed in bringing people and places to life, listeners will carry your story with them when they leave the theater. For example, both in a story itself and in the performance of it, characters make entrances, walk, stand, sit, and speak. The workshop will include exercises in character expression through movement, breath, and voice. By applying Jim’s techniques to fully imagine the details of characters and places, your stories will have greater clarity and immersive power.
Jim Stowell is an award winning professional actor, director, playwright and storyteller. He has written and directed eleven full cast plays including, two children’s plays, three book adaptations and a Spanish language play. His play Traveling Light was published by Milkweed Editions. He has written and performed eleven one man plays. His work has also been performed on National Public Radio, seen at The Sundance Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, The National Storytelling Festival and 300 other venues around the USA, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and a village in the Amazon rainforest.
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT REQUIRED FOR THIS 90-MINUTE INTENSIVE WORKSHOP.
$30 SAM member / $35 general public
