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STORY TIME PLUS: A PERFORMED ESSAY WORKSHOP (5 WK)

Writing Pad East
Los Angeles, CA

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Performance essays are all the rage. In this five-week class, Moth presenter and master storyteller Brian Finkelstein will teach you how to be a storytelling pro. You'll do fun, improvised storytelling drills, learn about the structure and genres of performance essays, and explore ways to use your essays to boost your writing career. Brian will show you how to transform relationships gone bad, family feuds, adventures, and life's minutia into two riveting five-minute pieces that are the perfect mix of vulnerability and comedic vavoom. He'll even teach you how to expose your narrator's flaws while also persuading the audience to root for you. By the end of the class, you'll have written two polished essays be ready to submit them to storytelling shows in LA like Taboo Tales and Sit n Spin. You'll get targeted feedback on your drafts to help you polish up your diddies for submission, and you'll read one of them at a show at Writing Pad!

July 9, 16, 30, Aug. 13, 20 (5 Wed. nights, 1 performance)
7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
Cost: $395 (includes snacks and tea and performance)
Location: Writing Pad East (688 S Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90021)

About Brian Finkelstein:
Brian Finkelstein is a regular performer at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles, as well as the host of the LA Moth Story-slams. He has performed his 8 solo shows to packed houses in a variety of venues from the HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen to the 2012 Summer Nights Festival in Perth, Australia. He's also an Emmy-nominated writer for his work on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Currently his screenplay, Good Grief is being produced by 72 Productions and he's touring with The Moth. Currently he writes for TV and film in LA, tours with the Moth, and is getting ready to perform his solo show, First Day Off In A Long Time, at the Steve Allen Theater (September 2014).