Michelle Stephens

When we disconnect the education of storytellers from the products we love, we all lose. You can't claim that a performance degree is a waste of money the whole time you're binge-watching Supernatural for the 4th time.

The storytelling industry is massive and one of the single most frequent interactions in most people's day to day lives. YouTube, streaming services, books and stories, social media, and advertising all fall in this category. It is a job market.

Community colleges are the great education equalizers. We are balancing trade and transfer. Now to fully embrace the arts and storytelling and we will be a total package.

People complain that "kids these days" don't know about the value of the past. Wrong. They just don't value things simply for being old. But if you've got something cool to show them, they're here for it. Teaching college is such a great job!

The problem with upgrading an online course is the other courses immediately seem shabby in comparison. #ineedsleep

The technology they have to track people through the London tube system is astonishing.

I would like to see Nightmare Before Christmas adapted to a puppet musical. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I have worked long and hard on many projects in my life. Faced extraordinary hurdles and obstacles thrown in my face and I. have. prevailed. But nothing, and I mean NOTHING in my life prepared me for the Herculean task of fixing the captioning on Death of a Salesman.

I was so sad to leave Iowa when I moved, now I am glad I did not stay.

Advice from a teacher: If you want to give your child a unique name, just give them a completely original name. Don't give them a unique spelling of a common name. Almost all of them cringe through those first few roll calls. #babynames

Shout out to all the solo faculty out there holding up your whole field of study.

This semester's students are so great. They are going to do so much better than we did. I read the news, I feel hopeless, I go to class, I feel hopeful. Kids these days man, are high quality humans.

Do you lecture content on the first day of class?

Just goes to show you, no matter how successful musical theatre folk become, they will always stop to sing in stairwells. <3

When I told my mother I wanted to be a teacher she said "Of course you do, you use to cry all the way home on the last day of school." #fair #thelongwalkhome #sniffing #uglycry

Making example assignments for my students to reference is sort of surreal. Doing my own homework.

I need a gif of @lofigirl studying at Brewster's Roost in #ACNH. Why does this not exist?