The Corner of Chaos · Theatre 1

The Story Underneath

The Story Underneath is my flagship theatre lab. It is not a lecture series. It is a small theatre where we bring real stories onstage and learn to see the invisible cast directing them.

16
Weeks
90-Min
Live Sessions
4
Private 1:1s
12
Seats Only
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A show does not get a curtain time until it has a cast. Your cohort begins when the cast is full. You will receive your curtain date by email, with a pick between two performance times.

🔥
Survivors
Your experience is not a case study. It's art. This course treats it that way.
✍️
Writers
Stuck on a story? The hidden arc reveals what you've been avoiding on the page.
🎭
Directors
You read everyone else's stories. This turns the lens back on yours.
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Playwrights
Structure is your armor. This cracks it open. By your own hand.

The Signature Experience

The Studio Ceremony

In ancient Greek theater, the chorus witnessed what the protagonist couldn't yet name about themselves.
We are rebuilding the chorus with AI. Your live Studio Notebook already reflects your own words back, and the full ceremony is facilitated during your cohort.

Step 01
You submit your material
Your story. Your scene. Your turning point. Written, rough, unfinished. Real.
Step 02
The Notebook witnesses it
The Studio Notebook reads across your own sources and names the patterns, images, and questions that repeat. It takes your work seriously.
Step 03
You sit and listen
You hear your story in third person. You witness yourself being witnessed.
Step 04
Facilitation, live in your cohort
April facilitates what surfaces: what do we hear, how does it feel. A graphic arc map of your passage is rolling out during your cohort.
Phase 1 · Wks 1–4
Reading the Script
Learning to see what was always there
Phase 2 · Wks 5–8
Naming the Contract
Finding the terms nobody wrote down
Phase 3 · Wks 9–12
The Self Contract
The deepest layer
Phase 4 · Wks 13–16
The New Story
What you build after the contract expires

16-Week Curriculum

Every week: lesson + exercise + live session + Studio notebook + discussion. Recordings never expire.

01
What Is the Story Underneath?
The art of reading beneath the surface
02
Structure Is Everywhere
Stories, rooms, people, systems
03
Character Deep Dive
Who is this person, really?
04
The Hidden Arc
What your story is actually about
05
The Work Contract
Job description vs. lived experience
06
The Relationship Contract
Terms nobody negotiated
07
The Gap
Where the drama lives
08
The Crisis Point
When the contract gets exposed
09
The Survival Deal
What you agreed to and when
10
Reading the Fine Print
Auditing the terms
11
The Turning Point
The moment the old story unravels
12
Agency
Renew, renegotiate, or release
13
The Protagonist Shift
From subject to agent
14
The Public Artifact
Your story in the world
15
The Chorus Session
Your Studio Ceremony
16
The Presentation
You in the room, telling your story

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Everything Included

✓16 live scenes directed by April Harris, inside our private digital stage
✓Each week is a new scene: a focused teaching, a guided story exercise, and a live debrief from the theatre seats with the group
✓Your Studio notebook becomes your script in progress, where you track the visible cast, the invisible cast, and who has the microphone in each story
✓A live Studio Ceremony, where the Studio Notebook reflects your own words back so you can hear how your story sounds from more than one angle, facilitated during your cohort
✓A graphic arc map of your story, so you stop feeling like scattered moments and start seeing your life as acts on a stage (rolling out during your cohort)
✓4 private 1:1 directing sessions with April, where you sit in the director's chair and work the scenes you have never had a safe room to unpack
✓Weekly story submissions with feedback, so your voice is rehearsed, refined, and witnessed
✓90 days of alumni stage access after graduation
✓Every session recorded, with recordings that never expire

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