Storytelling for Beginners
This beginner-friendly masterclass explores the art of storytelling for live performance. Drawing from stand-up comedy, screenwriting and story development, the class focuses on how stories can be shaped and performed more effectively in front of an audience.
Through a mixture of storytelling theory, performance analysis and practical insights, the masterclass is designed to help performers better understand how stories create emotion, connection, tension and meaning on stage.
What You Will Learn
Telling stories is something we’ve all been doing our entire lives, using natural techniques and instincts along the way. We edit, change and reorder stories every time we retell them, often without even realising we’re doing it. This masterclass is designed to take many of those unconscious storytelling instincts and make them conscious, helping performers better understand why stories work, how audiences connect to them and how they can be shaped more effectively for the stage.
These are just some of the ideas, concepts and areas we’ll explore throughout the masterclass:
- Making the unconscious art of storytelling conscious
- Why stories naturally evolve every time we tell them
- Translating natural storytelling instincts to the stage
- The difference between truth and fact in storytelling
- How perspective shapes every story we tell
- Finding the human truth beneath the details
- Using stories to explore ideas, themes and perspectives
- Understanding how stories reveal who we are
- Finding the deeper reason a story matters
- Using stories as tools to explore a bigger truth
Who Is This Class For?
This masterclass is aimed at comedians, performers, public speakers and anyone interested in becoming a more engaging storyteller in front of an audience.
Whether you’re performing stand-up, giving presentations, speaking on stage or creating content online, the principles of storytelling remain surprisingly universal.
Or maybe you simply want to become better at telling stories and anecdotes in everyday life. That counts too.
Register Your Interest
This Storytelling for Beginners masterclass is planned to take place in Brisbane.
If you’d like to be the first to hear when dates are announced, feel free to register your interest below.
And if you’re based outside Brisbane, still let me know where you’re from. If there’s enough interest, I’d love to eventually bring the masterclass to other cities as well.