Story Pirates
Leigh Poulos is a versatile artist and educator, currently serving as an Art Lab Facilitator at The Museum of Modern Art since June 2023 and contributing as a Senior Educator at the New-York Historical Society since September 2015. With extensive experience in teaching, Leigh has held multiple roles at Park Avenue Armory, including Teaching Artist, Teaching Assistant, and Teaching Associate since August 2013. Additionally, Leigh is a Contributing Writer for the Story Pirates Podcast and Reductress, a comedy publication. As a freelance illustrator for Society6, Leigh showcases fun pop culture-themed artwork. Leigh has also been an actress with Shadowland Theater and a numerologist and blogger at Numerologyville. Leigh's creative endeavors include producing, writing, and acting in the web series Dates Like This. Leigh earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Acting from New York University between 2002 and 2006.
Story Pirates
Story Pirates is a nationally respected education and media organization founded in 2003 to celebrate the words and ideas of young people. By pairing world-class teachers with first-rate actors and comedians, we offer a variety of tools to make learning more engaging and effective. Dually based in New York and Los Angeles, we are best known for the Idea Storm Program, a master-class writing workshop that brings teaching concepts to life, followed by a musical sketch comedy show featuring stories by students and performed by professional artists. Our acclaimed programs and professional development services for teachers are in place at over 250 schools from coast to coast.