History

Create-A-Show!

Join us March 7th for our first Create-A-Show, based on suggestions by kids in the audience! tickets

Best Benefit Ever

John Oliver hosts the After School Special on March 21st, featuring Jon Stewart in a new story! Tickets!

Classes at Moomah

Check out our popular sing-along classes for toddlers at Moomah, where Everyone Gets a Song! (more info)

Found on March 5th!

Based on Davy Rothbart’s cult hit FOUND MAGAZINE, Story Pirates AfterDark presents another installment of FOUND Live. more

We Do Parties!

Our mind blowing parties are all about your kid – featuring a show that makes the grownups laugh too. Click Here!

Once Upon a Time...

Story Pirates was founded in 2003 by a group of recent Northwestern graduates who recognized the discrepancy between the arts-rich environments of our childhoods and the situations in many under-resourced New York City public schools. Our solution was to show kids everywhere that their ideas, their words, and their stories are important. We made kids' own stories the basis for a big, loud, outrageous, musical sketch comedy show, because we believe kids' imaginations are worth cultivating and ought to be celebrated.

This big idea drives everything we’ve done in the past five and a half years, and what began as a twelve-member company with no budget and limited programs has become a well-respected arts education organization providing services to over one hundred schools and community-based organizations around the country. We have grown from a pilot assembly in a single Harlem School to a group that in 2009 toured sixteen states. Our writing workshops and assembly performances have now been seen by hundreds of thousands of children, and our popular movies on YouTube have been seen by millions.

On January 17, 2009, the weekend of President Obama's Inauguration, Story Pirates was invited to present a show at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., taking election-themed stories by local D.C. students and bringing them to life for thousands of people.

During the 2009-10 school year, Story Pirates will spend eight weeks in Los Angeles at the Geffen Playhouse, bringing arts education programs to under-served schools in Southern California.