NEXT LEVEL STORYTELLING: Elevate your storytelling & performance skills! Starts MAY 20
With Frayn Masters
The straight up deets:
Mondays May 20, 27. June 10. 5:30-7:30.
May 27 will be slightly longer. 5:30-8:00.
Performance date decided by class.
Rehearsal before show.
6 Students max for maximum attention
3 In-person classes
2 Private one-on-one sessions
1 Performance at Siren Theatre!
Sign up by May 7 for a $100 discount!
You’ve got a lot of cool tools living inside you waiting to dazzle audiences under the lights. Let’s reveal more of what brings your youness to the stage in this super supportive month-long risk-taking adventure.
You’ve got some chops. You know 5-part story structure. But you yearn for more tasty chops and juicy parts.
All you need is a playground where taking chances and trying new things gives you breathing space for breakthroughs that make your stories and stage presence to truly sing.
I created this smaller class size, plus one-on-one sessions, just for you. We’ll do challenging super fun exercises, direction, with topnotch classmates to help you define and get where you want to go next.
We’ll get down to it with improv, varied storytelling formats, and performance exercises. We’ll bust you out of the one-mic-standing-still stage experience and explore the multidimensional topography of the stage. You’ll arrive back home to the mic home plate with renewed physical, vocal, and narrative inspiration and skills.
Who should take this??
People who’ve told a story or several, but haven’t had the playground to expand and find out more of what they have to bring to the experience. (please email me at frayn@backfencepdx.com to confirm your level of experience is right for this class)
Seasoned performers/storytellers (standups, speakers, poets, podcasters, VO artists, actors, office Clown) who have felt an annoying unreachable itch that there is just something more they can click into to bring their work to a new place.
Hosts (podcasters, webinar leaders, emcees, band frontman) who know story structure, but want to find more ease with their words and truly connect with their audience.
Writers who have performance experience ( memoirists, poets, copywriters) looking to find new access to their lived experiences and imaginations.
Here’s everything that’s included in your class:
3 in-person classes. Class 1 and 3 are 2 hours, class 2 will be 2.5 hours to accommodate pitches.
2 one-on-ones.
One after the 2nd week.
Second before performance week.
There will be a two week break between class 2 and 3 to allow for the one on one and time to work your story.
Continue to talk about story structure and talk through how to come up with stories on the fly.
Field trip! We all go to a show together. After, we break down the stories and talk about what each of us thought worked/didn’t work. What you liked about the style of the performers etc.
Performance at Siren Theater promoted to the BACKFENCE audience that I will host!
I’ll be teaching a new format I am calling, Choral story. You will love it. This will also be performed at the live show along with your story.
Here’s where my penchant for storytelling has led me:
An award-winning storyteller that has been a producer and host for The Moth.
Creator, host, and executive producer of the award-winning storytelling series, BACKFENCE PDX
Coached and produced over 350 personal stories for stage, screen, webinars, speaking events, print, retreats, interviews, conventions, and pitching sessions.
A published fiction and non-fiction writer.
Film fanatic, racket and jump roping-based athlete, skateboarding fan, and animal lover (especially cats and other people’s dogs)
Watching people light up when they begin working on their story, finding new pieces of their own puzzle is a total honor to witness. Being in the presence of people discovering how much meaning can be found in stories they have disregarded as uninteresting or boring… or rise up from the unconscious to say, “Hey, remember this!” is a true joy.
I can’t wait to discover yours