Event

Mike Daisey Workshop: Performing Your Life

Stories are everywhere. From the hilarious and sublime to the tragic and crass, each day humans are constantly practicing the only truly universal art form: telling stories that make sense of their lives.

Mike Daisey, author and monologuist, will teach a one-day workshop on storytelling, autobiography and solo performance that covers the fundamentals. Using the methods employed by seasoned storytellers, participants will investigate their own lives to find our own true tales. We will uncover what makes our stories unique, what makes them true, and how to tell them so they illuminate the world beyond ourselves. Performers, memoirists, writers and others are welcome.

Sunday, February 18th
12pm to 6pm
Capitol Hill Arts Center Lower Level - Down the Ramp!
$100 - All Ages

Mike Daisey has been called "the master storyteller" and "one of the finest solo performers of his generation" by the New York Times for his monologues, which he has performed Off-Broadway, across the country and around the world at the Public Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Intiman, the Cherry Lane Theatre, ACT Theatre, Performance Space 122, the Spoleto Festival and many, many more. He's been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, a commentator for National Public Radio's Day To Day, and a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, WIRED, Slate and Salon. His first book, 21 Dog Years: A Cubedweller's Tale, was published by the Free Press and he is working on a second book, Great Men of Genius, adapted from his monologue about genius and megalomania in the lives of Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Nikola Tesla and L. Ron Hubbard.