MICAELA BLEI, PhD, has been teaching, studying and performing true, personal storytelling nationwide since 2012, and teaching and facilitating arts education for 20 years.
A two-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and former Director of Education at The Moth, she is the co-founder of The Moth’s Education Program, growing the program from a single high school after school pilot in 2012 to a national resource reaching hundreds of NYC high school students, college students across the country and providing training and curriculum design for over 1,000 educators worldwide. Ms. Blei has given invited keynotes and facilitated professional development workshops at SXSWEDU, Lincoln Center Institute, School of Visual Arts and many others.
She has regularly appeared on The Moth’s MainStage across the country and on The Moth Radio Hour, as well as storytelling shows Risk!, Story Collider, Family Ghosts, Narrative.ly, Out by 10, How I Learned, and others. Her solo storytelling show, The Secret Life of Your Third Grade Teacher, was a sold-out FringeFAVE at the 2016 NYC Fringe.
Ms. Blei earned her doctorate in Educational Theatre at New York University in 2018, focusing on personal narrative performance and identity, and her research talks feature an impressively high jokes-per-insight ratio.
A two-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and former Director of Education at The Moth, she is the co-founder of The Moth’s Education Program, growing the program from a single high school after school pilot in 2012 to a national resource reaching hundreds of NYC high school students, college students across the country and providing training and curriculum design for over 1,000 educators worldwide. Ms. Blei has given invited keynotes and facilitated professional development workshops at SXSWEDU, Lincoln Center Institute, School of Visual Arts and many others.
She has regularly appeared on The Moth’s MainStage across the country and on The Moth Radio Hour, as well as storytelling shows Risk!, Story Collider, Family Ghosts, Narrative.ly, Out by 10, How I Learned, and others. Her solo storytelling show, The Secret Life of Your Third Grade Teacher, was a sold-out FringeFAVE at the 2016 NYC Fringe.
Ms. Blei earned her doctorate in Educational Theatre at New York University in 2018, focusing on personal narrative performance and identity, and her research talks feature an impressively high jokes-per-insight ratio.