Sunday, August 18th 12:30-1:30pm 

Maple Grove

Odyssey Theatre’s Artistic Director Laurie Steven will teach students the fascinating art of storytelling. Laurie will lead you to create tales, from story conception and character development to body language and verbal changes and performance. Students will then be able to share the stories they create their own captivating stories with their loved ones and other audiences. Explore your own ideas of folktales, modern stories, and get into your characters’ heads by writing rants and confessions. Laurie’s aim is that you each go away with next steps if you want to take them or a new way of looking at these very old stories.

 

Laurie Steven

Laurie Steven is an award-winning director, writer, and founding artistic director of Odyssey Theatre. When crafting her productions, she builds imaginative world that take audiences on journeys that stir creativity and provide a new perspective to the human experience.Laurie’s medium is mask and the Italian artform of Commedia dell’Arte, which she has enriched with bouffon, puppetry and international forms of dance-theatre.

She has delivered in-depth workshops on a wide range of subjects, including mask-based acting; Commedia; writing, directing and dramaturgy for physical theatre forms; and artistic directing for independent theatres. As the leader of Odyssey’s new play creation program, Laurie has directed more than 30 play development workshops and brought 29 new plays and original translation-adaptations to full production.