True Stories – With A Twist – Featured in Unique Port Jefferson Storytelling Show

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(mostly) TRUE THINGS is a monthly show that features true stories - with a twist - told live, without notes by people from all walks of life.

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Port Jefferson, NY - October 15, 2015 - (Mostly) TRUE THINGS is a monthly show that features true stories - with a twist - told live, without notes by people from all walks of life. This unique entertainment has comedy, heart and authenticity, but also includes a game that engages the entire audience. All the stories except one include carefully-crafted deceptions. The audience has an opportunity to question the storytellers about their stories, then votes for the person who told the unvarnished truth. Audience members who choose the correct person get a prize.

The next performance is Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 7 pm, at Performing Arts Studio, 224 E. Main St., Port Jefferson, NY. Tickets are $10 online presale, available at Brown Paper Tickets or $15 at the door (cash only).  Call 631-366-4265 to reserve seats. Complete information is available online. “Like” (mostly TRUE THING on Facebook to get regular updates.

A video mash-up of stories from a recent show is available on Vimeo. Newsday wrote a full-page feature about this show on November 19, 2014, and host/creator Jude Treder-Wolff was interviewed about it on the “Mr. Long Island” internet TV show. Complete information is available at www.mostlytruethings.com.

In the November 14 show stories will be told by:

Michael Watt, a native Long Islander who over the years has won several Long Island Press Club and New York State Press Association awards for his humor writing. His op-eds appear regularly in the Long Island Business News and his Facebook posts have been known to generate many "likes."  He lives in Babylon with his wife, Sharon. They have two sons, Alex - a professional comedy writer and co-star on MTV's "Middle of the Night Show," and Max, a pitcher in the Red Sox organization. 

Shoshana Rubin, a television news writer and Emmy award winning producer living in New York.  She likes to entertain people with the stories she writes and in her spare time she paints. She recently published her first book "The Diary Of A Mensch." 

Ben Treder is a Product Specialist at Google who lives and works in New York, NY. A New Jersey native and Rutgers grad, he worked as a consultant before getting his MBA at Duke University. He and his wife Chrissy have lived in 4 different states and Dublin, Ireland in their 5 years of marriage.

Terri Morrissey is Co-Director of Performing Arts Studio of New York, an actress and teacher with 30 years experience.

Host and creator Jude Treder-Wolff has been featured on the RISK! storytelling podcast 3 times in the past 2 years, has told stories at The Moth storytelling slams in New York City and The Prose Of Pie storytelling show in Tarrytown, NY. She is a writer/performer amd singer/songwriter who has performed at cabaret and comedy clubs in New York and around the country. With musical director Wells Hanley she co-wrote the lyrics and music for the songs used to set up every stage of the game in (mostly) TRUE THINGS. “Self-medicate with real-life therapist Jude Treder-Wolff. Expect the unexpected! And without the hourly rates!” wrote the New York Daily News about one of her comedy/cabaret shows.”

“Crazytown provides instant relief from the blues” wrote a Karen D’Onofrio in a review on Electronic Link and her solo storytelling show - with all original songs -  "Crazytown: my first psychopath" was selected for the 2013 Midtown International Theater Festival, the 2012 Chicago and San Francisco Fringe Festivals and was performed at Actors Theatre Workshop, Broadway Comedy Club and The Pit-The Peoples Improv in New York, at the Charles B. Wang Center at Stonybrook University on Long Island and The Conservatory NJ in Trenton, NJ.