In this workshop, learn the basic elements of first person storytelling from New York’s Adam Wade, an 18-time Moth StorySlam winner and two-time Moth Grand Slam champion. The workshop will follow a class format in which each attendee will have the opportunity to share a brief story and receive feedback from Adam, discovering how to take a crowd by surprise and make them care, how to be sincere and vulnerable on stage, and how to communicate the real meaning behind your experience.
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Adam Wade
(Host)
Adam Wade is a 18-time Moth StorySLAM winner, 2 time GrandSLAM Champion, and has appeared on The Moth Podcast. His storytelling has been praised by the New York Times, "His stories have a rueful
sweetness to them." and Time Out New York, "You can't not like him." He's been seen on Comedy Central, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, ESPN,
and NFL Network. He was recently featured in the FIAT and CBS Radio's Alternative Routes Storytelling Series. In October of 2011, Adam was a speaker at TEDx PennQuarter in Washington, DC where he spoke about REINVENTING Storytelling. The past year he's also performed at both the Nantucket Film Festival and the First Person Arts Festival in Philadelphia. Adam has written for the New York Times, Glamour Magazine and the New York Press. Besides starring in the monthly AWFROMNHSHOW at the Theater Under St. Marks, he hosts and produces monthly storytelling shows in New York City at UCBeast and the Magnet Theater.
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