Online stories: StoryNights on Zoom

Michelle Darby, director, co-creator, founder and instructor of StoryCraft, has been facilitating stories through directing, acting, singing, and teaching for more than thirty years. She began teaching true, personal narrative storytelling at Stanford University in 2013. Since then, Michelle has been passionate about the power of personal stories to transform the teller and the listener. Michelle is also an actor, singer, director and playwright.

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Mireille Bejjani, a community organizer focused on environmental justice issues, loves weaving storytelling into her work. She took two StoryCraft classes with Michelle Darby on Zoom during the COVID pandemic and was immediately hooked on digging deeper into telling personal stories. She has participated in two Valley Voices shows through New England Public Media (NEPM); shared a story at “Crossroads: Changes in Rural America,” and recorded a short story for an NEPM radio commentary.

 

 

Michelle McGhee, co-creator and Foundations instructor extraordinaire, took Michelle Darby’s true, personal narrative storytelling class in 2017 at Stanford, and has been hooked ever since. She’s passionate about the power of storytelling to inspire self reflection and cultivate empathy. When she’s not teaching workshops, you can find her coding, listening to podcasts, or chasing frisbees.

 

 

Megan Calfas, co-creator and Next Level instructor, is a journalist, playwright, improviser, and podcast producer. She was a teaching assistant for Michelle’s true, personal narrative storytelling class at Stanford, where she studied English, theater, and journalism. She loves stories in every medium, but the ones developed in StoryCraft are always her favorite. 

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