TOTALLY TRUE THINGS: A Socially Conscious Storytelling Show

is a live-streaming series produced by Lifestage, Inc featuring award-winning performers sharing true stories that focus on mental health, medical challenges, and social issues that completed its first season Thursdays September 17 - December 17, 2020. The shows are recorded live and available to watch as a webinar. Following each performance, host and producer Jude Treder-Wolff leads a discussion with the artist and a specialist on the topic explored in the show.

 You can subscribe now for $65 and we will send all the links to watch all the shows. Individuals shows are $12/ticket. The link will be emailed to you upon receipt of registration. 

NYS Social Workers can earn 1.5 contact hours for each webinar (provider #0270). If you are a social worker seeking CE credit, email [email protected] after viewing the show and request the link for the evaluation. The certificate will be emailed when we receive the completed evaluation.

Shows in this series:
Smoker, written & performed by Bob Brader. post-show discussion includes John Martin, Supervising Public Health Educator for Suffolk Co. Dept of Health, Suffolk Co, NY

The Good Adoptee, written & directed by Suzanne Bachner, performed by Hayley Palmer, post-show discussion includes Pat O'Brien, Exec Director of the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of NY

Daddy Issues, written & performed by Calvin Cato, post-discussion includes Aynisa Leonardo, LCAT

Nazis and Me, written & performed by David Lawson, post-show discussion with Jude Treder-Wolff, LCSW

We Are Still Human, written & performed by Helena Lewis, post-show discussion includes Justice Rountree, reentry specialist for citizens returning after incarceration and Priscilla Carmona of SCORES

Fish Out Of Agua, written & performed by Michele Carlo, post-show discussion with JF Seary

The Journey Of Funny, written & performed by Vernon Payne, post-show discussion: Jaye McBride & Alexis Lambright, LCSW

Anatomy Of A Doll, written & performed by Terri Muuss, post-show discussion with Staci Block, LCSW

This Isn’t Helping written and performed by Jude Treder-Wolff; Guest-host Peter Michael Marino; Discussion with Margot Escott, LCSW

This Is Happening: Pandemic Stories Featuring: Richard Cardillo (RISK, 8-time MOTH slam winner,) Julie Good Krueger, (owner of Inglenook Tile, writer) Kathy Klotz-Guest, (Keeping It Human, keynote speaker) Rhonda Hansome, (John Fugelsang's Tell Me Everything on Sirius Radio) 

Nancy Drewinsky And The Missing Letter written and performed by Robin Bady; Topic: Anti-semitism

The Last To Know written and performed by Jean Le Bec; topic: surviving emotionally abusive relationship with a narcissist.

HOST/PRODUCER JUDE TREDER-WOLFF is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Group Psychotherapist and Certified Practitioner of Applied Improvisation, President of Lifestage, Inc and host/creator of (mostly) TRUE THINGS, a game wrapped in a storytelling show based on Long Island, NY and performed around the country since 2014, including a teen edition. She is active in the national storytelling scene, featured on PBS Stories From The Stage, Story District in Washington, D.C. Ex Fabula (All-Star Grand Slam winner) in Milwaukee, WI, RISK! Live show and podcast, Mistakes Were Made, Mortified and many others. Her solo show This Isn’t Helping was selected for the Whitefire Solo Theatre Festival in Sherman Oaks, CA, the 2018 Speak Up! Rise Up! Storytelling Festival, and performed in theaters around the country. She served as chair of the 2019 Applied Improvisation Network World Conference at Stony Brook University, in partnership with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.