COURSE SYLLABUS

Every life delivers a story (or three) worth telling well. This workshop course rehearses the writing and performance skills necessary to remake the raw material drawn from lived experience into compelling autobiographical storytelling. Course participants will work in an array of storytelling modes (including stand-up comedy, testimony, slam poetics, etcetera) and will draw from those techniques to devise, document and perform a portfolio of original autobiographical storywork by semester’s end.