Teaching Artist

Students in San Diego Unified's Honor Theatre Project, 2023

Craft an original fairy tale, or fine tune a tricky story. Storytelling workshops build essential skills for speakers, actors, and marketing folks. 

Presented at National Storytelling Network Conference 2025, San Diego Storytelling Festival 2024, Coronado Library, at San Diego County of Ed ArtsEmpower Conference, many classrooms, and more!

Ready to Book Workshops:

• Emotional Peaks & Valleys: Supersize Your Stories (Ages 16-99)

• What's Your Dragon?: Sharing Personal Challenges Through Genre Stories (Ages 18-99)

• Your Hero's Journey: Crafting a Personal Growth Narrative (Ages 14-99)

For a custom offering, let's chat! hello@emilystamets.com

Props: fake frappes

Take your teaching to the next level! Learn simple, immediately-applicable strategies for improving metacognition with every. single. student. 

Recently presented at the California Educational Theatre Association Conference. 

Ready to Book Workshops:

• Feeding In: A Rehearsal Strategy for ELL & Inclusion

• Feedback That Helps Them Grow

• Devising Theatre in the Classroom

Or for a custom offering, let's chat! hello@emilystamets.com

Participants in "Giggles & Games" at Special Liberty Project Military Widow's Retreat, 2023.

Use my tried-and-true method to create an original story with your team. Then perform in captivating story theatre style!

Can be themed to: space, pirates, fairy tale forest, and more!

The OG! This workshop is great for all groups, and encourages collaborative work. 

Presented in tens of classrooms, at San Diego County of Ed ArtsEmpower Conference, and more!

1-3 hours. Up to 40 people. Ages 14+

$250. Book by emailing hello@emilystamets.com.

Great for team building and retreats, this workshop encourages reflection on personal strengths & learnings.

Presented at Camp Bravo Alumni Weekend. 

3 hours (can be split into multiple sessions). Up to 20 people. Ages 16+

$400. Book by emailing hello@emilystamets.com.

Some personal stories are too raw, private, or risky to tell. But these are often the stories and lessons that the world most needs to hear from you. Fantasy, sci fi, and other genres create a generative distance, allowing us to safely share about issues that are too difficult to work with directly. In this workshop, each participant will develop a fantasy or sci fi tale about a challenge or lesson from their own lives.

Presented at the National Storytelling Conference. 

90-120 minutes. Up to 20 people. Ages 16+

$250. Book by emailing hello@emilystamets.com.

Want a spellbound audience? The plot is just the beginning! 

In this workshop, discover the simplest strategy for stories that make your audience want more. 

You'll learn to tweak your word choice and delivery of emotional moments. Whether you tell personal stories, traditional myths, or original fantasy, this workshop is for you.

This workshop builds essential skills for storytellers, speakers, and writers. 

Presented at the San Diego Storytelling Festival, Coronado Library, and more!

45-90 minutes. 6-60 participants. Ages 12-14, 14-18, or 18+. 

Starting at $250.

If you have uttered the phrase “but WHAT did you like about it?” more than 100 times in the past year, this workshop is for you!

Feedback is an essential part of the creative process – especially in theatre, the most collaborative art form of all. But “I liked it,” “It was funny,” and “I don’t get it,” don’t help an actor or designer who genuinely wants to improve.

Grounded in the Ladder of Inference cognitive model and devised theatre co-creative norms, this strategy relies on 3 simple questions that build critical thinking skills while inspiring authentic, artist-driven improvements.

Presented at the California Educational Theatre Association Conference. 

45-90 minutes. 8-40 participants. For educators & leaders. 

Starting at $250 per session. 

What would be possible if your actors never had a script in their hands? Using “feeding in,” a simple strategy developed for Shakespeare performance, your performers can be making eye contact, manipulating props & puppets, and making large movement choices free of their script from the first day of rehearsal.

Bonus: they’ll also learn their lines faster! 

Developed by Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts, this technique is especially powerful for ELL students, and students for whom translating written words into speech & action is especially difficult: those with reading difficulties, language processing differences, and some forms of neurodivergence. 

In this workshop, participants will be on their feet, using the feeding in strategy to rehearse short scenes & monologues. Time will be allowed to discuss and try out applications of the feeding in technique to solve individual challenges faced by participants.

This workshop builds essential skills for English, ESL, Theatre, Speech, and Social Studies teachers. 

Presented at the California Educational Theatre Association Conference. 

30-60 minutes. 8-40 participants. For educators. 

Starting at $250 per session.