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Our first story meeting for our first student matinee is tonight! But FIRST, meet our “Before & After” alum storytellers.

These four storytellers participated in four different NYTI shows over the past decade. They are meeting tonight to help each other develop their true tales inspired by the theme “Before & After” on the page.

On March 13, they will swap stories on stage for students and faculty from Global Learning Collaborative High School.

Meet our NYTI alums!

• Watch “Left My Heart” storyteller Carl M. Banks trade tales and perform Tony Bennett’s class “I Left My Heart in San Francisco as part of our 2024 spring team-up show with the Greater Astoria Historical Society.
• Watch “What I Know” storyteller Michele Carlo trade tales for our 2022 celebration of Women’s History Month at Culture Lab LIC and read her story “Viva La Curl-Volution!” in the No, YOU Tell It! Ten-Year Anthology.
• Give a listen to “Coming & Going” storyteller Calvin S. Cato trade tales in Part 1 of our 2020 Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event, which was also our first Zoom show during the pandemic.
• Give a listen to “Legacy” storyteller Nicole Greevy trade tales as part of The Brick’s Comic Book Theater Festival in Brooklyn in 2014. Read her story “Nerd: The Next Generation” in the No, YOU Tell It! Ten-Year Anthology.

We’re excited to build our creative community by having alum storytellers return and trade tales with a new story partner!

These matinees for students working on their college essays are a dynamic example of how the No, YOU Tell It! collaborative process makes writing and performing personal narratives accessible, empathetic, and transformative.

We hope to do more student shows and are raising $2500 in March to make that happen.

If 50 people donate $50, we’ll reach our goal! Want to be one?

Donate $50 here via our fiscal sponsor, The Field, to get the ball rolling.

Want to see this special show at Symphony Space at 1 pm on March 13? Email noyoutellit@gmail.com for a ticket!