ThePIT

 This is a class for storytellers with experience who are looking to incorporate more theatricality into their performance. If you’re looking to inhabit your characters and expand your physicality behind the mic, this is the class for you. In addition to fine-tuning your writing and story structure, you’ll learn to fully harness the power of your body and voice to create scenes, build tension, and transform into characters. If your crazy Aunt Gilda is better seen and heard than described, this class can show you how to become her. Class time is devoted to students sharing and critiquing each other’s work. Each student will develop at least three stories and perform one of them in a class show at The PIT for family and friends.

DAVID CRABB is a performer, writer and director in New York City. He is a two-time MothSlam champion and co-producer of “Kevin Allison’s RISK!” He is also the co-creator/producer of the live storytelling series ASK ME. He has taught storytelling with Kevin Allison & Michelle Walson at The Story Studio and spoke at NYU’s Tisch School of Arts. He has directed solo & two-person shows at The PIT and UCB Theatre. David has been a member of NYC’s Axis Company Theatre since 2003, developing original material in New York, Paris and Edinburgh, Scotland. His one-person show “Bad Kid” was met with critical acclaim and opens for it’s second NYC run in 2012.(www.badkidtheshow.com). David received an interdisciplinary MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. The thing he is most proud of his “Leave Britney Alone” video, which garnered so many views that Snickers now run ad-banners over it.