After my first weekend of doing shows, I’ve gotten all kinds of good, actionable feedback about my show, “Black Smoke Showing: Stories of African American Firefighters.” People helping me with the show have offered tips. Friends and family have told me what they loved and laughed at. People who saw the 45-minute version and gave me feedback were happy to see their feedback added to the show.
And now, I have my first official review! The DC Theater Arts has published a review giving me 4/5 stars. Not bad for an experiment that I was hoping would work. I so appreciate the reviewer mentioning that it went well and where things can be better. I’m looking forward to taking all the feedback I have gotten so far and using it in this last show on 20 Jul at 7:05 PM. The link for tickets and the link for the review are below. If you hope to see the show, as of 5:57 AM on Thursday, there is 1 ticket left! May the Force be with you!
After years of being an instructor in the military and the and the fire service, I realized I needed to improve my delivery. My students needed me to improve delivery. But how do I improve my delivery? Simple. I finally took a member of Toastmasters up on the invitation to come to a meeting. It wasn't long until I joined. Along the way of improving my skills at delivering a message, I came to understand that of all the ways to get a point across, telling stories is the best way to get it done. Around this time, another friend from Toastmasters told me about The Moth monthly story telling shows. What better way to test out my theories on storytelling. It's in my travels there to the shows that I found more and more shows, and classes, and events centered around storytelling. Despite how many people know about the storytelling world, not many people know about the storytelling world. So now, I'm out to tell the world about storytelling.
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