Noah Firestone asks Dan Boyd some deep philosophical questions about portraying different characters while telling personal stories.
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May 12 2021
TJ Sopoci Feat Monday May 24th @ the Workshop Workshop
TJ Sopoci is a data scientist, comedian, podcaster, writer, photographer, musician and content creator. His is truly an inspirational tale of the Irrational Confidence of White Male Mediocrity If you look up the term Multi-Hyphenate, you’re likely to see a picture of TJ. Along with his co-host Gena Grish, TJ helms a top 100 podcast on the Apple Comedy Podcast charts called Menage-A-Pod. This comedy podcast about sex, dating and relationships was born in the aftermath of the two hosts having a chance encounter on a dating app, but has lead to the growth of TJ’s other creative endeavors. In 2020, in spite of the world going through a pandemic, TJ was able to get a successful photography and digital content creation business off the ground, as well as establishing himself as an up and coming talent in the Chicago stand up comedy scene.
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May 11 2021
Jay Rohr Features Monday’s Workshop Workshop
J. Rohr is a Chicago native with a taste for history and wandering the city at odd hours. An author of short fiction and poetry, his work has appeared in publications such as Broadswords and Blasters, Hoosier Noir, Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycle Feminism & Dragons, and Pulp Modern.
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Apr 19 2021
Amrita Joins us April 19th 6pm Workshop Workshop Style
Amrita Dhaliwal, she/her/hers, is a Jane of all trades and Queen of all of them because she can and she does. Amrita is currently the Managing Director and an instructor for the Idiot Workshop. Most recently Amrita co-authored and curated an essay series for HowlRound about clown and activism with Nathaniel Justiniano of Naked Empire Bouffon Company. She also won Best Comedy at the 2019 Melbourne Fringe Festival for The Living Room, which she had been touring the world with Gemma Soldati.
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Mar 26 2021
Story Luck’s Workshop Workshop Featuring Shweta
Story Luck’s weekly dive into the Workshop Workshop format continues on Monday with special guest, Shweta. March 26th at 6pm central we will be having a lesson on storytelling and exploring two stories. The Story Luck Crew, along with a host of regulars in the Twitch chat will help us to actively listen. Thereby we …
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Mar 20 2021
Workshop Workshop Featuring Tim Barnes
Tim Barnes is a Los Angeles born Brooklyn-based comedian and writer whose absurdist humor brings light to social issues from unexpected angles.
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Mar 11 2021
Workshop Workshop Featuring – Vanessa Tardiff from I love Bad Star Trek
Join us Monday6pm CentralFreeTwitch.tv/storyluckFacebook Invite Vanessa Loves Bad Star Trek Vanessa Tardiff has been calling Chicago home for the last decade since leaving home in Washington, D.C. But we get the sense she’d be just as happy on the bridge of the Enterprise. As soon as she was capable of spelling she tells us, she …
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Mar 10 2021
The Power of Listening
Deep listening is an active process. Fundamentally what you are aiming for is to understand what the other person is trying to convey. Often that means you will need to ask questions to help clarify and fill in any details that are missing.
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Mar 05 2021
Elaborative vs Repetitive Mothers
One group is the Elaborative Mother and the other is the Repetitive Mother. The Repetitive Mother tells you just the facts. She places importance on the order of events and she wants to know why you’re telling the story. She wants to help you get through it and so she’ll ask questions and create scaffolding to help you create your story to help you be succinct and direct.
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Mar 04 2021
Danette Mark – Featuring @ Story Luck’s Workshop! Workshop!
Danette Mark is an artist who chooses to express herself through the medium of stand-up comedy. She has been writing and performing comedy for the past 8 years in the Chicago-land area. She received formal training at Second City in Chicago in 2012. Danette’s style of comedy is anecdotal where she loves to joke and tell stories about her out-of-box way of thinking which affects all aspects of her life especially how she relates to others.
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The Hot Girl Game is Best Played with Women You Trust. (A Bad Feminist Story.)
“Dan, do you want to play the hot girl game?”
Valarie is one of my oldest Chicago friends and she is coy with sly winks, and surprise happy shouts you come to expect. This mirth is tempered by the…
Reasons I Don’t Use the Word Feminist Out Loud
Growing up an early Millennial all my female friends would say, “I’m not a feminist.”
This would follow a string of feminist beliefs they did hold. And I’d say, “Yeah. I’m for all that.” And they’d explain, they didn’t like the…
Today's the last day of my Easter holiday and I'm going to make it a build day.
After probably 25 years of thinking about it, I'm going to finally build myself a website.
Will update this thread as I go.
I am addicted to rock climbing and I hate every minute of it.
For years, I’d poo-pooed rock climbing.
Why wouldn’t I go running instead?
Now that I’ve tried it… I know… running would be way healthier and more efficient. (Swimmers are giving me the, “If you really want a…
