Are you interested in learning to tell personal stories? Have you ever wanted to perform stories? Do you have an experience that you need to share? Join producer-director-performer Shay Knorr of Solo Speak for a 4-session personal storytelling performance workshop called First Speak set for February 7-8.
Participants will create a 10-12 minute personal story, with coaching on structure, intent, conflict, resolution, editing and performance skills. The stories will be performed in a group showcase called The First Speak Sessions. Participants must be available to attend all of the collaborative sessions, and be willing to participate in the First Speak showcase performance.
Knorr is a writer, producer, actor, singer and solo story performer. Starting on the stage at age 10, she performed in theatre, commercials, TV, film and radio in Portland and Los Angeles. She started doing solo personal story performance after writing her one-woman show, Why Can’t I Marry the Cute Beatle? in 2008, and performed with Portland Story Theater before moving to Bend.
She wrote and directed Portland’s beloved drag performer, Walter Cole in his sold-out one-man show, Just Call Me Darcelle, which can also be found on Amazon.com. Shay has worked as a producer of commercials, video and radio for 20 years and is the founder of Solo Speak here in Bend.
programs@thenatureofwords.org
541-647-2233
Storytelling Events
February 7-8
The Solo Speak Sessions
Love & Hate
Storytelling weekend Friday & Saturday nights, 7:30pm
Six Performers plus one special guest
April 5
Special Session
Shackleton’s Antarctic Nightmare: The 1914 Voyage of The Endurance
Saturday night, 7:30pm
Story Teller Lawrence Howard of Portland Story Theater will perform his gripping, heart-breaking, true story of British explorer, Ernest Shackleton, and the Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914. Shackleton’s dream of being the first to cross the Antarctic continent on foot became a nightmare when his valiant ship, the Endurance, was crushed in the pack-ice of the Weddell Sea. The story of how he and the 27 men of the expedition survived on the ice and eventually came to safety is an epic tale of hardship and suffering; of courage, determination and fortitude.
May 16 & 17
The Solo Speak Sessions
Jump
Storytelling weekend Friday & Saturday nights, 7:30pm
Performers: Shay Knorr, Matilda Koningsberg, Andrew Hickman, Ralph Steadman, Barb Largent
All shows will be at the Greenwood Playhouse in Downtown Bend
shay knorr @ 458-206-4895
shay@sharonknorrproductions.com
www.solospeak.com
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