Story Pirates & Friends Benefit Performance at NYU Skirball

The Story Pirates are a group of top comedians, musicians, best-selling authors, and world-class teachers who come together with a single mission: to celebrate the words and ideas of kids. Best known for their podcast, which tops the family charts and has been downloaded more than 10 million times, Story Pirates is also a leading supporter of arts education. This special NYC celebration will include Story Pirates greatest hits along with fresh new musical sketch comedy based on ideas from the audience. All five of the Story Pirates Podcast hosts will perform: Peter McNerny, Meghan ONeill, Lee Overtree, Rachel Wenitsky, and Nimene Wureh. Tickets start at $35 and are available now at: www.storypirates.com/tickets. A VIP ticket at $100 includes a reception and meet-and-greet with the podcast hosts. Every purchase helps Story Pirates Changemakers bring life-changing literacy and creative writing programs to low-income schools, refugee programs, homeless shelters, and hospitals. Story Pirates Changemakers, the non-profit arm of the organization, celebrates the words, ideas, and stories of young people. Their life-changing literacy programs have reached more than 500,000 students in schools around the country, along with community groups reaching foster children, refugees, and medically fragile kids. The goal of Changemakers school programming is to create confident, literate students equipped with a variety of tools for written, verbal, and artistic self-expression. What began as a pilot program in a single Harlem school in 2004 has grown to classroom and teacher training programs at hundreds of schools from coast to coast.