I’m often struck by how stories can play off of each other. Throughout the Zoom Era of Better Said Than Done, we’ve had many shows where the tellers’ tales have been enhanced by accidental interplay of subjects or feelings, well over and above the night’s theme.
Well this time, we’re doing that on purpose! Better Said Than Done presents Twisted Tales: Stories Interwoven! Join us online Thursday, April 14h at 8:00 P.M. Eastern as our fearless leader, Jessica Robinson, hosts an evening of stories designed to work together. Our tellers will be Jim Brulé, Katie Knutson, Ingrid Nixon, Laura Simms, and Nancy and Robert of Eth-Noh-Tec! Tickets are on sale now!
Let’s get to know the evening’s performers…
Maggid Jim Brulé is a storyteller, teacher, coach, and organizational consultant whose experience spans several decades. As a maggid, he creates opportunities for spiritual growth and transformation through encounters with stories, whether in performances, classes, or individual guidance. He also serves as an interfaith chaplain in hospitals, jails, and psychiatric facilities. Jim serves on the boards of Northeast Storytelling and Artists Standing Strong Together (ASST), and has delivered programs to storytelling organizations around the world. He received s’micha as a maggid from Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum in 2009, and has been operating the Transformational Storytelling program since 2017.
In Katie Knutson’s 20+ years as a Storyteller and Teaching Artist, she has delivered residencies, performances, and classes to over 40,000 children and adults, on four continents. She has produced conferences and festivals that have helped hundreds of storytellers and community members share their stories. Knutson’s articles and lesson plans have been featured in Storytelling Magazine, Tomorrow’s Storytellers Today, and two other books about storytelling. Find out more about Katie and her company, Rippling Stories, at her website.
Ingrid Nixon is an award-winning, world-traveling storyteller who whisks listeners away on journeys of the imagination. Exploration nail-biters, tall tales, traditional and personal stories—she tells them all on international expeditions, and at venues around the country, including the National Storytelling Festival. She is a champion liar many times over and – no lie – holds a Masters in Storytelling from East Tennessee State University. She hails from Alaska.
Laura Simms is an award winning performer, writer, and educator advocating storytelling as compassionate action for personal and community transformation. She performs worldwide combining ancient myth and true life story for adult and family audiences. She is the Artistic Director of the Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Center in NY and the founder of The Center for Engaged Storytelling. Laura received the Brimstone Award for Engaged Storytelling, CHOICE award for best story collection and Sesame Street’s SUNNY DAYS award for work with children worldwide. Laura is the mother of best selling author Ishmael Beah.
Eth-Noh-Tec: Since 1981, award-winning Co-Directors Nancy Wang, dancer, choreographer, performer and playwright, and Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, musician, composer, performer and playwright, have performed with their interdisciplinary style of storytelling for over 1 million people across the nation and abroad with ancient Asian folktales and myths as well as contemporary Asian American inspiring and historical stories. They create and staged original performances, organize tours to Asia and conduct workshops in libraries, festivals, museums and schools, reaching audiences exceeding a million people, including at the presidential inaugurations of Bill Clinton in 1993 and of Barack Obama in 2009.
Now that you’ve met the night’s tellers, come see how they work their stories together to astound and mesmerize you! The show starts at 8:00 P.M. EDT on Zoom. It’s a “pay what you like” event – our suggested contribution is $16, and our minimum is $6. Both bargains at twice the price! Please do come and purchase your ticket now!
