Stories to Scenes

When:
Saturday, Jan 21, 2017 8:00p -
9:30p

Where:
The Riot Theater
146A South Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

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Admission:
$10

Categories:
< 21, Art, Date Idea, Kid Friendly, Performing Arts, Social Good

Event website:
http://www.theriottheater.com/stories-to-scenes.html

Improv Jones Boston and MassMouth present Stories to Scenes
Hear real-life tales of humor, tragedy, and more, from renowned storytellers, MassMouth. Plus, see veteran improv comedy group ImprovJones create whole new scenes inspired by the storytellers!

Improv Jones Boston has been entertaining audiences in the Boston area for 10 years. Improv Jones's style is fast-paced, clever and physical - an irreverent mix of comedy that is highbrow but also just plain silly. ​


Massmouth is non-profit organization that promotes the timeless art of storytelling in Massachusetts. Since our founding in 2008, Massmouth,inc. has changed the way Greater Boston and surrounding communities tell and listen to stories. Since 2009, Massmouth has held storytelling events and slams in Somerville, Cambridge, Jamaica Plain, Quincy, Worcester and Lowell (just to name a few). Check them out at MassMouth.org


This month's storytellers:
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Trent Wells is a writer and stand-up comic from Boston. He's been performing for the last 3 years throughout the East Coast for festivals and competitions. When he's not rolling his own cigars he can be found working rigorously on his comedy at clubs like Limelight, Slades and the comedy studio.
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Jo Galvin is a writer, performer, and producer residing in Boston. You can see her inventively observational and personal- with a schmear of crass, material in stand up, improv, and sketch. After growing up on the mean streets of suburban CT, she studied and lived in NYC where she perfected the art of partying and overblowing job credentials. Jo is an enthusiast of small animal figurines, masturbation, pistachios, bourbon, and Real Housewives of ANY CITY. Sometimes at the same time. She’s a real go getter. So it goes, in the words of a very good human, or at the very least writer. Jo is working on a collection of humorous essays as well as songs.
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Norah Dooley is a storyteller, educator, critically acclaimed children’s author and creator of StoriesLive®, a high school storytelling curriculum and story slam program. She is the co-founder of massmouth.org and the Greater Boston Story Slam series.


As project director of StoriesLive® she created and implements a curriculum used to teach over 7,000 Greater Boston high school students to tell compelling first person narratives. As an adjunct faculty she teaches storytelling to undergraduates at Tufts and runs a Junior Seminar at Lesley University. In January of 2014, she returned to lecture on storytelling and language acquisition in Tokyo, Japan as part of a multi-year grant funded by the Japanese government. www.norahdooley.com


Norah has an MEd in Creative Arts in Learning from Lesley University and a BFA in Painting from Tufts University/Museum School. Described as an “… entrancing storyteller” by the Boston Globe, Norah is sought after as a keynote speaker on literacy and storytelling. She’s been a featured storyteller in regional festivals; Cambridge River Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Albany River Festival, 3 Apples Storytelling Festival, MA and at the Clearwater Festival, NY. In 2013 she was invited to perform at the Exchange Place of the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough,TN.


H.R. Britton is an actor, storyteller and educator, originally from the Midwest. He is one of the hosts of "Stories to Scenes," and is active on the board of Massmouth. In addition to the little stories he performs at story slams, and open mikes, he performs full length solo shows drawn from his own life (Melting in Madras, Jesus Rant) or adapted from anxiously comic literature, (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose.) He has performed across North America, and even got flown to India once.

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