Life Stories Institute 2025
Dates
Apr 3 - Apr 6Instructor
Deb Gottesman, Buzz Mauro$395
The Theatre Lab’s Life Stories® Institute is an award-winning education program where you’ll learn how to use the power of the arts to strengthen communities. In this highly interactive virtual training, you’ll gain the teaching experience you need to develop and implement workshops that help people create original dramatic works based on their lived experience. Offered only once a year, this “train-the-trainer” program” is for anyone interested in amplifying the voices that too often go unheard in our society. No acting or teaching experience required. Tuition: $395. Aid available.
Location
onlineSessions
Spring ILife Stories Institute 2025
$395.00
14 in stock
Instructor

Deb Gottesman
Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director, Board Member, & FacultyDeb Gottesman is a founder and co-director of The Theatre Lab. She is also a professional actress who has performed frequently at Woolly Mammoth Theatre as well as at Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, Keegan Theatre, Theater Alliance, and with the Washington Shakespeare Company, among many others. She has directed more than fifteen productions at The Theatre Lab, including Ragtime, The Crucible, The Grapes of Wrath and Jane Eyre, as well as productions for National Geographic and Catholic University’s Musical Theatre Department. Deb has taught drama at the Round House Theatre, Woolly Mammoth and American University. She is a 2003 recipient of the prestigious Linowes Leadership Award for her contributions to arts education. Along with Buzz Mauro, she has co-authored three books on applied acting, all published by Penguin Putnam.
Training
Catholic University, M.F.A.
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