A Running List of Story Practices, People, Initiatives, and Organizations
Series of Q&A Interviews with Well-known Story Practitioners
Links will go “live” when each interview is published:
- Molly Catron Q&A
- Jessica Lipnack Q&A
- Terrence Gargiulo Q&A
- Jon Hansen Q&A
- Svend-Erik Engh Q&A
- Loren Niemi Q&A
- Gabrielle Dolan Q&A
- John Caddell Q&A
- Shawn Callahan Q&A
- Stephanie West Allen Q&A
- Madelyn Blair Q&A
- David Vanadia Q&A
- Tom Clifford Q&A
- Sharon Lippincott Q&A
- Ardath Albee Q&A
- Sharon Benjamin Q&A
- Carol Mon Q&A
- Ron Donaldson Q&A
- Cynthia Kurtz Q&A
- Annette Simmons Q&A
- Karen Gilliam Q&A
- Michael Margolis Q&A
- Corey Blake Q&A
- Susan Luke Q&A
- Mike Wittenstein Q&A
- Cathie Dodd Q&A
- Sarah White Q&A
- Chris Benevich Q&A
- Karen Johnson Q&A
- Jon Buscall Q&A
- Thaler Pekar Q&A
- Lori Silverman Q&A
- Casey Hibbard Q&A
- Katie Snapp Q&A
- Rob Sullivan Q&A
- Andree Iffrig Q&A
- Whitney Quesenbery Q&A
- Sean Buvala Q&A
- Stephane Dangel Q&A
- Stewart Marshall Q&A
- Annie Hart Q&A
- Melissa Wells Q&A
- Jim Ballard Q&A
- Paul Furiga and John Durante Q&A
- Judy Rosemarin Q&A
The company’s blog is Stories that Sell.
A press release on Two Men Talking explains the origins:
Murray Nossel and Paul Browde met in 1974 in Johannesburg when they were 12-year-old rival schoolmates and were challenged by a teacher to tell each other a story. Decades later, they met by chance in a New York street and the story has continued, but has become the tale of their own experiences and individual and shared lives. Murray is now an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and Paul a psychiatrist, and their conversation is frank, unsentimental and without boundaries. Within a broadly chronological framework, TWO MEN TALKING examines their shared experiences growing up white, Jewish, gay and privileged under the apartheid regime. Over the many years of performing this show, this unscripted piece has dealt with difficult issues including harassment, homophobia, racism and AIDS, each of which has deeply touched the lives of the two men. Each performance is absolutely unique as the way they tell the story changes in a continually transforming and developing piece. The combination of theatre and real life and has inspired audience members to tell stories of their own, and to better value their own relationships.
Murray apparently now leads story workshops and seminars with special guest Paul under the name narativ, described this way on the narativ site:
Discover your Life Story as a source of creative expression. Clearly and confidently communicate who you are + what you do. In an amazingly short time you will learn how to master your own storytelling ability and be taught how to use that skill to succeed in any part of your life, including business and socially.
We provide innovative learning experiences in communities and organizations by creating surprise, energy, depth, and relationship around difficult issues like diversity and inclusive leadership. We do so using story, theatre and experiential processes, forming creative and safe spaces where people don’t have to be clever, but are free to truly learn and explore. We help individuals in organizations deepen their working relationships across difference, transforming how they work together in the process and enhancing their capacity for innovation. Our work is more oriented toward learning (a process that leaves us changed) than toward problem-solving (a process focused on changing our surroundings) because we believe that changing our surroundings can only come after we ourselves are changed in some way.




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