Everyone has a story to tell! Come to this workshop and learn to transform your personal experiences into engaging, well organized, and memorable stories. Using Ancram Opera House’s REAL PEOPLE REAL STORIES approach to storytelling, workshop leader Paul Ricciardi (Co-Director of Ancram Opera House) will guide you in exercises you can use to create great stories! You will be invited to pitch your stories for the July 27 event: REAL PEOPLE REAL STORIES at the Ancram Opera House. Paul Ricciardi is the co-artistic director of the Ancram Opera House and an award-winning teacher, actor, director and voice/speech/dialect coach. He is an associate professor at the City University of New York/Kingsborough CC where he teaches voice and acting. He received the 2018 Kennedy Center National Teaching Artist Award. Called “The Gold Medallion”, it is considered one of the great honors in theatre education.