Description
Date: September 13 & 14, 2025
9 am – 4 pm each day
Skill Level: Beginner to Experienced.
Class Registration Fee: By August 25, 2025: $300
After August 25, 2025: $325
In this in-depth two-day storytelling workshop with writer, Minneapolis Story Laureate, and NPR commentator Kevin Kling, you will look at storyteller tools such as creating imagery, structuring a narrative, using humor and adding dialogue. On day one, look at elements that transform an experience into a story, especially “the invitation,” where we begin to develop trust and enter into a conversation with the audience.
On day two, continue to craft your story, perform it for each other, and receive valuable feedback.
This is a remarkable opportunity for all writers and storytellers!
Students need to bring the following supplies: Pen and paper or tablet
Materials fee: (To be collected directly from students by instructor in class):
Playwright, author and storyteller Kevin Kling graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College with a BA in Theater in 1979. He has written many plays for children and family audiences including Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, by Bernard Waber, Busytown, by Richard Scarry, and Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, by Kevin Henkes. He has also written original works including Mississippi Panorama, (CTC), Perfectly Persephone, Best Summer Ever, and most recently Invisible Fences with Gaelynn Lea.
His one-person shows Home and Away, 21A, and How How, Why, Why, Why and his full cast plays Lloyd’s Prayer and The Ice Fishing Play have been produced in regional theaters, including The Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, the Goodman, Kennedy Center, Denver Center and off Broadway at Westside Arts and Second Stage Theater. Orchestral commissions include the Minnesota Orchestra’s Home for the Holidays and Joyful Echoes. Collaborating with composer Victor Zupanc: For the Birds for the Zeitgeist ensemble and The Burning Wisdom of Finn McCool and The Twelve Dancing Princesses for the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
Kevin’s awards include the Whiting Award, NEA, McKnight, Bush Fellowship, Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board the A.P. Anderson Award, the VSA Jeahny, the Eric Peterson Award and two regional Emmy Awards for PBS documentaries Kevin Kling: Lost & Found and Art + Medicine: Disability, Culture and Creativity.
Kevin is a frequent performer at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN and appears often on PBS and Minnesota Public Radio. He was named the Minneapolis Storyteller Laureate by Mayor RT Rybak in 2014 and has authored five books.
Kevin is most proud of his work as a teacher, playwright and performer with Interact Center, a company that creates art in the spirit of radical inclusion.
His website is: www.kevinkling.com
