Margot will conduct a one-hour overview of storytelling including important principles such as: character, rooting for the storyteller and universal theme. Story construction will be taught and the participants will leave with a storytelling plan to get started on their personal tales. Humor is encouraged, as well as vulnerability and most importantly, sincerity.

MARGOT LEITMAN is the author of the best-selling book LongStory Short: the Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need, What’s Your Story? & Gawky: Tales of an Extra Long Awkward Phase. She has written for DreamWorks TV, the Hallmark Channel, and the Pixl Network and worked for "This American Life" as the West Coast story scout. She is the founder of the storytelling program at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre and is a five-time winner of the Moth Storyslam and a winner of the Moth Grandslam, receiving the first ever score of a perfect 10. She travels all over the world teaching people to tell their stories.

This will take place online using BlueJeans software:
Tuesday, Sep 15, 2:00pm-3:00pm EST

For questions, email Sarah Jewell, Programming Chair, at stjewell@gmail.com 

The event is open to NY-NJ MLA Chapter members only. Please register below to be provided the link the week before the event: