True, solo or long-form stories that focus on mental health, medical challenges or social issues, that are available as recorded videos of live-streamed events from Feb-April 2021. Following the stories is a lively, informative discussion with 1 or more experts on the topic explored in the show, moderated by host/creator Jude Treder-Wolff. The show is produced by Lifestage, Inc

Each show provides 1.5. contact hours of Continuing Education for NYS Social Workers, and costs $12 to get the link to view. Subscribe to the entire series off 11 shows for $65.

Listen...Can You Hear Me Now? is Gloria Rosen's autobiographical story that centers on a child growing up with deaf parents but not allowed to sign. Forbidden the use of their language, yet still the voice of her family, she lives between the worlds of deaf and hearing. Not fully belonging to either, she follows her singular path to find her own voice. This show was an Official Selection for the New York International Fringe Festival, was awarded Best Autobiographical Script at United Solo Theatre Festival, best of Hollywood Fringe and had its first international performance at Treasured Gifts: A Weekend of Coda Storytelling at The Campus St. Jean, University of Alberta in Edmonton, CA.  Phillip Gehman, Director of Disability Services at Stevens Institute of Technolog, joins for the post-show discussion. He is an experienced university administrator with expertise in the area of disability legislation. In this field, Phil specializes in disability as a form of diversity. His passion for the social model of disability energizes hihs work in creating equal access to university programs, and drives his interest in disability related policy and initiatives. 

Thank You For Playing features stories and monolgoues by therapist and writer/performer Jude Treder-Wolff, host/creator of Totally True Things, about the human comedy that is our relationship to change in a rapidly- accelerating world. Through stories that take place at a teen bereavement camp, a "Face Your Fears" corporate retreat, and a clash of worldviews in the confines of a BMW, this performance shows and tells about the power of play and creativity for navigating a stress-filled world. Interspersed with improv scenes inspired by the monologues performed by some of New York's best improvisers, the result is a mental health comedy mash-up showing how making things up together helps us deal with reality. Improvised scenes by Elana Fishhbein, Rick Andrews, Jamie Rivera, Matt Shafeek and Eleanor Lewis. Jude Treder-Wolff has been featured on storytelling shows around the country and online, including the RISK! live show and podcast, PBS Stories From The Stage, Story District, Whitefire Solo Theatre Festival, Ex Fabula in Milwaukee, WI and many more. She is an improviser who has completed the Peoples Improv Theater training program and The Magnet Theater program and continues to study improv with ongoing classes in various forms. She is active in the Applied Improvisation field, and served as Chair of the 2019 Applied Improvisation Network World Conference, in partnership with the Alan Alda Center For Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. 

One Woman, Under Brow, written and performed by Anoush Froundjiian features candid stories about Anoush's Armenian family, her Armenian day school, and her pursuit to redefine "home." This hour-long performance piece is told through a web of sometimes comedic and sometimes sharp and poignant storytelling. The piece addresses the culturval differences between Anoush' background and that of day-to-day society, revealing how it has both torn down and reshaped the life of a child and now (semi) adjusted adult.  Anoush Froundjian is a storyteller, improviser, and cartoonist, who has finally gotten comfortable with her first name. When she isn't telling stories, she draws cartoons for Anoush Talks to Stuff, her webcomic about a girl who talks to inanimate objects and people alike. https://anoushtalkstostuff.wordpress.com Find her also on Instagram at @AnoushTalksToStuff and @MeAndABorrowedDress! Joining for a post-show discussion is Reverend Julie Hoplamazian, an Episcopal priest, teacher and advocate for justice who shares Anoush’s connection to her Armenian Heritage. Prior to being ordained as a priest, Julie worked as an arts educator, teaching music and dance. She is the founder of Faith On Pointe, a ballet-based ministry that uses dance as a tool for spiritual health and growth. You can find her on Instagram at @faith_on_pointe.

Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex and My Mother,  written and performed by Jamie Brickhouse takes us from Jamie's childhood in Texas to a high-profile career in book publishing in New York and a near-fatal descent into alcoholism. About his memoir by the same name that tells this story, Mary Karr, New York Times best-selling author of The Liar's Club wrote: "A blisteringly funny, wrenching account of wrestling way too close to - and later loose from - booze, sex, drugs and his adorable, infuriating mother. The 5-time, award-winning show received deluge of rave reviews, including the San Francisco Chronicle, which said, "Brickhouse [has] a vocal range finely calibrated to the unique needs of each beat...he writes with fiendish pith." Called "a natural raconteur" by the Washington Post, Jamie Brickhouse has appeared on PBS-TV Stories From The Stage, is a four-time Moth StorySLAM champion, has been featured on the national podcast of The Moth, is a Grand Slam winner of the National Storytelling Network, a Literary Death Match champion, and has appeared multiple times on RISK! (live show and podcast), Story Collider (live show and podcast), performs throughout New York City, and has appeared in Mexico, Los Angeles, San Francisco, D.C., Minneapolis and Asheville. He has also performed stand-up comedy and recorded voice-overs for the legendary cartoon TV show Beavis and Butthead. He is an international keynote speaker on a range of topics, from alcoholism/addiction, recovery, suicide prevention, overcoming HIV stigma, dementia and so much more. Read more about Jamie Brickhouse's speaking, writing and storytelling at www.jamiebrickhouse.com Post-show discussion featuring: Eric Marcus, founder and host of the award-winning Making Gay History podcast, which mines his decades-old audio archive of rare interviews — conducted for his oral history book of the same name about the LGBTQ civil rights movement — to create intimate, personal portraits of both known and long-forgotten champions, heroes, and witnesses to history. His other books include Is It A Choice?, Why Suicide?, and Breaking the Surface, the #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography of Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis. Eric is also co-producer of Those Who Were There, a podcast drawn from Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.

Tech Babies, written and performed by Jessica Robinson is an intimate story about the medical and psychological realities of what seems like the most natural and simple thing in the world - making a baby. Jessica is very active in the storytelling scene, and hosts Better Said Than Done, which produces live storytelling shows and is based in northern Virginia but now streaming around the world.
Jessica Robinson is the founder of Better Said Than Done, which produces true, personal storytelling shows in the northern Virginia area and beyond. She has performed stories for Story District in Washington, DC, TEDx, Tales In The Village, The Grapevine, Stories In The Round, Perfect Liars Club and George Mason University's Fall For The Book Festival, and as such venues as Jammin' Java, Epicure Cafe, Franklin Park Performing Arts Center, The Auld Shebeen, Town DanceBoutique, and Dance Place. She has been a regular commentator for WAMU, DC's NPR station. Her personal story "The Game" was published in the short story collection Sucker For Love. Her story "What Are The Odds" was published in The Northern Virginia Review, Volume 29 and "The Talk" is included in the anthology Roar: True Tales Of Women Warriors. She is the author of the urban fantasy novel Caged published in 2016 and is currently writing the sequel.
Joining for a post-show discussion: Mandy Schmeider Cummings is an actress, improviser and writer whose short film Unnatural deals with the realities of the infertility struggle and is currently winning awards on the film festival circuit. She can be seen as "I'm So Bad" Mandy, the bi-curious fitness student, the apologetic scientist, and the pregnant cannibal, as a recurring guest on Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer. Bonnie Gardner, a former journalist who changed careers to work in IT, has performed on Better Said Than Done, The Scheherazade Project's #101 Nights series, Stories For Healing, Artists Standing Strong Together's NEW-ish, and GOOD Storytellers show. When she's not at her day job, she's helping run Big Big World Project - www.bigbigworld.org, a non-profit supporting children in two orphanages in Vietnam. She's based in Northern Virginia, where she can be found alternately nagging and getting up to some hijinks with her teenager.

A Hundred Indecisions, written and performed by Mel Dockery (The Moth Radio House, The Liar Show,The Armando Diaz Experience) What if we could make life more bullet-proof by never making a conclusive decision? Follow the life of Mel Dockery as she safely weaves herself away from all destinations, blissfully unaware that not making a discussion is a decision unto itself. Post-show discussion featuring: Rick Andrews (Magnet Theater Faculty) www.rickandrewsimprov.com

Black Voices Matter (there is no charge to watch this video). Featuring:

Nick Baskerville, who is active in the storytelling and comedy scene, having been featured on The Moth, Story Collider, Better Said Than Done, Mistakes Were Made and Perfect Liar's Club. He can be seen on the Clean AF Comedy show every Friday night.
Helena Lewis, DSW, a theatrical scholar-practitioner who uses qualitative research and social work theories to illuminate social justice issues. Her solo show We Are Still Human - based on her research about the struggles of incarcerated women - has been performed internationally.
Donna Washington has won numerous awards for her many books, writing and storytelling performances around her international career. She has been featured at numerous storytelling festivals including the 2004 National Storytelling Festival, The Illinois Storytelling Festival, The Three Rivers Festival, The St. Louis Storytelling Festival among many others.
Rosann Hamilton is a biomedical Imaging Specialist for the Dept of Veterans Affairs, who served in the US Army from 1994-2005, and was named the United States Military Academy West Point Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year, among many other honor.
Michelle Gilliam is a voice actor and improviser. She has been involved in the improv comedy scene for over 20 years. She is owner of ImprovMKE LCC, in Milwaukee, WI.

Song Of Omecihualti, written and performed by Valentina Ortiz, is a true story about the feeling of exclusion and vulnerability that results from migration and takes the listener on a journey through a search for a new definition of home. Valentina speaks the stories of ancient and modern Mexico, as traveled many countries with her work, taking the Latin American traditions to audiences young and adult. To her flow of stories, she adds her skills as a longtime professional drummer and singer. Joining for a post-show discussion is Elisa Pearmain, a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Concord, MA, who has been telling stories professionally since 1981 wen she danced/told the story of her experience as a victim of domestic violence turned survivor and thriver. She has published two award-winning books, including Doorways To The Soul: 52 Wisdom Tales From Around The World and Once Upon A Time: Storytelling To Teach Character and Prevent Bullying. She also recorded a double CD called Forgiveness: Telling Our Stories In New Ways and is currently working on a book by the same name.

Body Parts, featuring Carla Katz explores 4 perspectives organ transplants: needing one, donating one, caring for the organ and the people involved, the power of stories to heal and social impact of telling them.
Carla Katz is a Jersey-born and bred storyteller living in Hoboken. Her new solo sow ANGELINA debuted at the SoloCom 2019 Comedy Festival at The Peoples Improv Theater and her solo show Body Parts sold out at the 2017 SoloCom Comedy Festival. She is a Moth Story Slam Champion, has performed widely in New York, including at The Comedy Cellar, The Fat Black Pussycaat, Story Collider, The Liar Sow, The AWFNH Show at Kraine Theater, and many more. By day she is an attorney and labor leader.
Janine Allen: Originally from England, Janine lived in France and Italy as a young child. She moved to New Jersey in 1996, attended Seton Hall Law School and works as a defense attorney in North Jersey. She is the mother of 4 children, 5 fur kids, a frequent volunteer in her community and always strives to be the best human she can be.
Dr. Ryan Goldbrg, board certified in internal medicine and nephrology, joined the Renal and Pancreas Transplant Division in 2010 from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver CO.
Tina Bakehouse, MA is an executive communication coach, who develops and facilitates a wide-range of creative communication workshops for educators, managers and other professionals in the Omaha-metro area, specializing in storytelling for professionals from diverse fields, including health care, business and not-for-profits.

Second Helping, written and performed by Kelli Dunham is a comedic, heart-breaking account of a life-changing medical challenge, after a series of life-changing losses, that reveals what she discovered when she needed to ask for help. Kelli Dunham is a comic and storyteller who has performed on RISK! Moth Mainstage, Story Collider, Stories From The Stage and so many others. Post-show discussion features Barbara Buckley, a retired oncology social worker who played a key role in Kelli's experience with the cancer diagnosis and care of her partner.

Runaway Princess: A Hopeful Tale Of Heroin, Hooking and Happiness, written and performed by Mary Goggin, is a true story about Mary's Irish Catholic upbringing, drug addition and prostitution, and the multitude of characters she encountered along the way to ultimately finding joy. Mary Goggin is a NY-based actor born to Irish emigrants and raised in the Bronx. She has performed on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally in theraters, on television and film. Her solo show has earned multiple awards and been performed internationally.  Joining for a post-show discussion: Kevin Allison, creator and host of RISK! were people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share.

HOST/CREATOR 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 but performed in NY, NJ, WI and IA since 2014, including a teen edition. She has been a featured performer on shows around the country, including PBS Stories From The Stage, Story District in Washington, DC, Ex Fabula in Milwaukee, WI, RISK! live show and podcast, Mistakes Were Made, Mortified show and podcast, and many others. Her solo show This Isn't Helping was selected for the Whitefire Solo Theatre Festival, The Marsh Theater Livestream out of San Francico, the 2018 Speak Up! Rise Up! Storytelling Festival, and at theaters and venues 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.