American School of Storytelling

American School of Storytelling Crafting the authentic voice to artfully & truthfully tell our stories.

The American School of Storytelling is a program of classes, performances, and resources dedicated to storytelling and other narrative art forms. Founded by storyteller Loren Niemi, the American School of Storytelling is joined by a rotating set of nationally and regionally recognized teaching and performing artists to bring your stories to life. We are based in Minneapolis, MN but our classes and performances can be found all over the United States and online.

08/20/2026

๐“๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ! ๐‡๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐…๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐ค๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐…๐ซ๐ข๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ. ๐…๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ = ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ƒ๐ž๐š๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง ๐“๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐Ÿ” ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ $๐Ÿ”๐ŸŽ- ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ๐ค ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐จ๐จ๐ซ! Bring five friends for one night OR binge six performances yourself. Individual tickets $15 online or at the door.

Donโ€™t miss our first Hair of the Dog Storytelling Festival, Aug 21โ€“23 at AMSS.
https://amsstory.com/event/hair-of-the-dog-2026/

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐‹๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ- โ€œ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ• ๐˜๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐”๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌโ€- You think youโ€™ve heard it all from these two storytelling masters, but below ...
08/20/2026

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐‹๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ- โ€œ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ• ๐˜๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐”๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌโ€- You think youโ€™ve heard it all from these two storytelling masters, but below the tip of their story iceberg are the long hidden tales, the frozen underbelly. Come hear never before told stories that just might change your life forever.

๐‡๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐‹๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ
August 23, 2026 at 4:00pm
1762 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis
Individual show tickets are $15 online or at the door!
Festival pass punch card, 6 shows for $60, pick up at the door!
https://amsstory.com/event/hair-of-the-dog-2lorens-aug-23/

๐‡๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐…๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”- Do you have a Fringe hangover? Join us for our first โ€˜Hair of the Dogโ€™ storytelling festival! Come for some encore Fringe performances from our fresh voices- Erin Ferdinand, Vianna Isbister, & Kory May- and new stories from old favorites- Howard Lieberman, and The Flounder, Loren Niemi.

Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft offers his political opinion: โ€œAs for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a fri...
08/20/2026

Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft offers his political opinion: โ€œAs for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.โ€

The fundamentals of storytelling: what is a story, how to craft it, and how to tell it. We begin by looking at both pers...
08/19/2026

The fundamentals of storytelling: what is a story, how to craft it, and how to tell it. We begin by looking at both personal and traditional stories to learn genres and the narrative forms, then begin making decisions about the particular narrative form you want to use, beginnings/ endings, point of view, the emotional arc of a story, and then practice telling it.

๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ 
In-person, 1762 Hennepin Ave.
Four sessions at 7:00-9:00 PM
Wednesdays, September 9-30
Taught by Loren Niemi
Class fee $80: https://amsstory.com/event/intro-to-storytelling-9-2026/

๐„๐ซ๐ข๐ง ๐…๐ž๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง๐- โ€œ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐ƒ๐ข๐ž๐ (๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ˆ ๐ ๐จ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐‹๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฒ ๐Œ๐ข๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ฅ๐ž)โ€- Erin Ferdinand is author of โ€œThe Ghost Dog Diaries...
08/19/2026

๐„๐ซ๐ข๐ง ๐…๐ž๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง๐- โ€œ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐ƒ๐ข๐ž๐ (๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ˆ ๐ ๐จ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐‹๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฒ ๐Œ๐ข๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ฅ๐ž)โ€- Erin Ferdinand is author of โ€œThe Ghost Dog Diariesโ€, a collection of essays and advice about life after death and our life, in general. Originally published as a weekly column based on her experience as a Savannah (GA) psychic medium, these works inspired this performance of โ€œMy Dog Died (and all I got was this Lousy Miracle)โ€.

๐‡๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐„๐ซ๐ข๐ง ๐…๐ž๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง๐
August 22, 2026 at 8:30pm
1762 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis
Individual show tickets are $15 online or at the door!
Festival pass punch card, 6 shows for $60, pick up at the door!
https://amsstory.com/event/hair-of-the-dog-erin-ferdinand-aug-22/

๐‡๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐…๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”- Do you have a Fringe hangover? Join us for our first โ€˜Hair of the Dogโ€™ storytelling festival! Come for some encore Fringe performances from our fresh voices- Erin Ferdinand, Vianna Isbister, & Kory May- and new stories from old favorites- Howard Lieberman, and The Flounder, Loren Niemi.

โ€œWhen I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy ch...
08/19/2026

โ€œWhen I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.โ€ -Frank McCourt and so having that worst of all childhoods he wrote this life into something more than the misery it provided.

08/18/2026

๐‡๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐…๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”- Do you have a Fringe hangover? Join us for our first โ€˜Hair of the Dogโ€™ storytelling festival! Come for some encore Fringe performances from our fresh voices- Erin Ferdinand, Vianna Isbister, & Kory May- and new stories from old favorites- Howard Lieberman, and The Flounder, Loren Niemi.

๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐จ ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘ ๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ ๐‡๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ฉ๐ข๐ง ๐€๐ฏ๐ž, ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ž๐š๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ
Festival pass punch card, 6 shows for $60, pick up at the door!
Individual show tickets are $15 online or at the door!
https://amsstory.com/event/hair-of-the-dog-2026/

๐Š๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ- โ€œ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐„๐ฑ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐Œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ˆ ๐๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐’๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐„๐ฅ๐ฌ๐žโ€- Kory May tells stories to make sense of the worldโ€”and since the worl...
08/18/2026

๐Š๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ- โ€œ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐„๐ฑ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐Œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ˆ ๐๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐’๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐„๐ฅ๐ฌ๐žโ€- Kory May tells stories to make sense of the worldโ€”and since the world refuses to make sense, he keeps telling them. A Moth Mainstage performer and two-time Moth GrandSlam winner, heโ€™s shared more than 2,700 consecutive nights of Thoughts Too Big for My Head on Facebook Live. Through Story Vista Frameworks, he teaches character, coaches storytellers, and builds mythic narrative tools. He performs widely across the Midwest. Please welcome the tall man with the short name, Kory May.

๐‡๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐Š๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ
August 22, 2026 at 7:00pm & August 23, 2026 at 2:30pm
1762 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis
Individual show tickets are $15 online or at the door!
Festival pass punch card, 6 shows for $60, pick up at the door!
https://amsstory.com/event/hair-of-the-dog-kory-may-aug-22/

๐‡๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐…๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”, ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐จ ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘: Canโ€™t get enough of the Minnesota Fringe? Join us for our first โ€˜Hair of the Dogโ€™ storytelling festival! Come for this storytelling festival with some encore performances from our fresh voices- Erin Ferdinand & Vianna Isbister- and from old favorites- Kory May, Howard Lieberman, and The Flounder, Loren Niemi.
https://amsstory.com/event/hair-of-the-dog-2026/

Today marks the third year the American School of Storytelling has offered classes and performances in our 1762 Hennepin...
08/18/2026

Today marks the third year the American School of Storytelling has offered classes and performances in our 1762 Hennepin Ave space and having said that, we look forward to another year of celebrating the oral narrative arts.

๐‡๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐‹๐ข๐ž๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ โ€œ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐€๐ฌ ๐€๐ง ๐Ž๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐งโ€, A devoutly agnostic progressive who loves Israel, tells tales of gr...
08/17/2026

๐‡๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐‹๐ข๐ž๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ โ€œ๐Œ๐ฒ ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐€๐ฌ ๐€๐ง ๐Ž๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐งโ€, A devoutly agnostic progressive who loves Israel, tells tales of greed, avarice and love. A bumpy ride sure to cause a stir. Bring your boxing gloves and a sense of humor.

๐‡๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐‹๐ข๐ž๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง
August 22, 2026 at 2:30pm
1762 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis
Individual show tickets are $15 online or at the door!
Festival pass punch card, 6 shows for $60, pick up at the door!
https://amsstory.com/event/hair-of-the-dog-howard-lieberman-aug-22/

๐‡๐š๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐จ๐  ๐’๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐…๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”, ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐จ ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘: Canโ€™t get enough of the Minnesota Fringe? Join us for our first โ€˜Hair of the Dogโ€™ storytelling festival! Come for this storytelling festival with some encore performances from our fresh voices- Erin Ferdinand & Vianna Isbister- and from old favorites- Kory May, Howard Lieberman, and The Flounder, Loren Niemi.

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