Storyteller

Lit!Commons Storyteller Pathway

Participants in Lit!Commons get access to all 10 teaching artists. May Lee-Yang leads the Storyteller pathway, which strives to help you build skills and approaches to your creative storytelling.

May Lee-Yang creates weekly on-demand content that can fit into your busy schedule and follows up with live sessions as well as peer conversation in our shared community.

In this pathway, you'll find activities and lessons like: 

  • Crafting Characters
  • Discovering Your Character's Voice
  • Exploring First Person Narrative

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Your Teaching Artist

Lit!Commons Subscribers Gain Access to All 10 Teaching Artists. The Storyteller path is led by May Lee-Yang.

The Storyteller May Lee-Yang

May Lee-Yang was voted “Most Quiet” in her high school graduating class but makes her living talking and teaching. She is a Twin Cities-based playwright, poet, prose writer, and performance artist. Her one-person and semi-one-person shows include The Child’s House, Confessions of a Lazy Hmong Woman, and Ten Reasons Why I’d Be a Bad Porn Star. Her other theater-based work includes The Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity (Theater Mu). Her work has been supported by grants from the National Performance Network, the Playwright Center McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting, the MN State Arts Board, MRAC, and the Naked Stages Fellowship. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, where she also currently teaches.

The Storyteller Path

This curriculum will build over time. You get access to it all!

    1. Welcome by May Lee-Yang, Teaching Artist for The Storyteller

    2. Copy of Shared Values and Rules

    1. Novels in Verse

    1. Pacing & Storytelling Exercise

    1. Putting Your Spin on a Classic

    1. Finding Elements of Surprise in Your Story

    1. Crafting Characters

    2. Lajos Egri Character Exercise

    3. Slides from "Crafting Characters"

About this path

  • Weekly On-Demand Lessons
  • Live Follow-up Sessions
  • Shared Community