Totally True Things: A Socially Conscious Storytelling Show presents
THIS IS HAPPENING: Pandemic Stories
The live-stream of this show was recorded and available to watch as a webinar
This show provides 1.5 contact hour of Continuing Education for social workers in NYS, provided by Lifestage, Inc, which produces this series

 We are living through a historic, life-altering, reality-shaping experience with the COVID pandemic. This show features stories about what are going through while this is happening, followed by a discussion about what we can learn from it all and the role of comedy and creativity to manage ongoing uncertainty. This show has comedy, great writing, and different perspectives on how resilience grows through the human struggle. Featuring: 

Richard Cardillo is a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side in Manhattan and has been an educator for over three decades. He still considers himself more of a learner than a teacher....but always a storyteller! Rich is a six-time Moth StorySLAM winner. He’s performed at, Yum’s The Word, Pros(e) Of Pie, Story Collider, The Liars Show, RISK!, PBS Series: Stories From the Stage. His solo show Invisibility to sold out audiences at The Tank. Rich is a passionate activist (recently garnering his first civil disobedience arrest in support of immigrant rights while inside Trump Tower!). His playground voice has transitioned nicely to become his protest voice!

Julie Good Kruger is owner of Inglenook Tile Co, an ordained Zen Buddhist priest, lives in an historic stone mill in Lancaster, PA that she and her late husband Tim Kruger gutted and renovated, has 2 grown daughters, gardens, sculpts, paints and writes, and operated an Airbnb at her home until the pandemic. When she isn't running the tile company she's writing love letters.

Rhonda Hansome, is on John Fugelsang's Tell Me Everything on Sirius Radio every Monday at 11:15 am, winner of BackStage Bistro Outstanding Comedian Award, has appeared on Louie, Saturday Night Live, Caroline's Comedy Hour, Stand-up Spotlight, Arsenio Hall, Evening At The Improv, Showtime at The Apollo and The Joan Rivers Show as the movie reviewer.  https://rhondahansome.com/

Kathy Klotz-Guest, MA, MBA is the founder of Keeping It Human, Inc and she is on a mission to bring the transformational, playful power of humor and improvisation to people at work and in their personal lives. A former Silicon Valley marketing executive, trained stage improviser, storyteller, and comedian for over two decades, she combines her business and comedy backgrounds to help people, teams and brands be more human, healthy and happy. Inc.com named her book, Stop Boring Me! a CMO must-read and she still teaches and performs improv comedy as well as stand-up, and has won several comedic storytelling slams in the SF Bay Area. Her kid still thinks she's funny and that window is closing soon. 

HOST: Jude Treder-Wolff is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Group Psychotherapist, Certified Practitioner of Applied Improvisation, writer/performer and host/producer of Totally True Things: A Socially Conscious Storytelling Show and president of Lifestage. Inc. She has been featured on PBS Stories From The Stage, Story District in Washington, DC, RISK, Mistakes Were Made, Ex Fabula and at other live shows around the country. Her solo show This Isn't Helping was performed at the off-Broadway Connelly Theater in the Speak Up! Rise Up! Storytelling  Festival, The 2018 Whitefire Solo Theatre Festival, and at theaters and venues around the country. She is published in the International Journal Of Arts In Psychotherapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, Recovery Press and writes about improvisation, creativity and storytelling for Publishous and medium.com. She has been interviewed for articles appearing in NBC News, VICE, Women's Day, LI Pulse, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, LA Times and many others. www.