Micaela Blei

Bio

Micaela Blei, PhD, is a two-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and former Director of Education at storytelling nonprofit The Moth, where she created the Education Program and grew it from a single high school pilot to a national resource for educators. She has spent the last 8 years performing and teaching storytelling and narrative performance, hosting storytelling shows, and coaching individual storytellers for the stage and beyond. Micaela has given invited keynotes about storytelling craft at organizations and conferences nationwide, from Lincoln Center Education’s award-winning Summer Institute to SXSW EDU, where she delivered the opening keynote in 2018. She earned her PhD in Education in 2018, focused on storytelling craft and education. Micaela’s own stories can be heard on The Moth Radio Hour and podcast, Risk!, The Story Collider, Family Ghosts, WGBH’s Stories from the Stage, and in live shows across the city and nationwide. Her solo storytelling show, The Secret Life of Your Third Grade Teacher, was a sold-out FringeFAVE at the 2016 NYC International Fringe Festival. Her newest solo storytelling show, Causality, premiered in November 2019 at the PIT’s SOLOCOM Festival. She is the Story Editor and live show director for Family Ghosts, story editor for the Business Insider podcast Brought to You By…, and a writer for the innovative podcast network WaitWhat.