**Saturday April 26, 2025 7 pm**
The Performing Arts Studio
224 E. Main St. Port Jefferson, NY
Tickets: $20 online
$25 at the door (cash only)
(mostly) TRUE THINGS is a compelling evening of true stories - with a twist - told by a brilliant line-up of storytellers. Performers in this show will tell a story about a true experience from their own life, on the theme **GAME ON!** There is a game in the show as well. Some of the stories include subtle little lies. The audience gets to question the storytellers - who do not have to answer honestly, just to make the game even more fun - then votes for the person they think told it completely straight. There are prizes involved, if you can believe that.
**Jude Treder-Wolff,** host/producer is a storyteller, comedian, singer/songwriter, and improviser performing in shows on Long Island, NYC, and around the country. She was recently featured on the *Love Hurts* podcast, *Story District* in Washington, D.C. *Grapevine Storytelling* in Washington, D.C., *The Armando Diaz Experience* at Magnet Theater in NYC, PBS *Stories From The Stage*, *Funny Over 50* at West Side Comedy Club, *Generation Women* at Joe's Pub, *RISK!* live show and podcast multiple times and many others. Her solo show *FASTER* was featured in the 2024 New York Fringe Festival and performed at the off-Broadway Playhouse 46. www.judetrederwolff.com
**STORIES BY:**

Marc Abbott

Marc L Abbott is an award-winning African American writer from Brooklyn, NY, and Moth Grand Slam winner. His novels include A Gamble Of Faith (2004) - which was published following a 13-year run of his play by the same name - The Hooky Party and Etienne, His many short horror stories are included in anthologies such as the Bram Stoker-nominated New York State Of Fright. In 2019 he co-authored Hell at the Way Station, which he won two African American Literary Awards (Best Anthology/Best Science Fiction). The sequel, “Hell at Brooklyn Tea“, was released in January 2021. www.marcabbott.com

Jezrie Marcano-Courtney

Jezrie’s stories take audiences on thoughtful adventures, focusing on the universality of the human experience. Through the triumphs and trials of being AfroLatinx, she highlights the complexities of being part of the Black diaspora drawing from her coming of age. Jezrie writes and performs for Ubuntu (OO-BOON-TOO) Storytellers, where true stories inspire audiences to think about the interconnected experience of being human. She has performed for *Stories From The Stage,* Saul Fussiner’s *Songs and Stories, Story City* at The Buttonwood Tree, The New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Storyteller’s New Haven, *The MOuTH-Off* with Chion (Ki-own) Wolf and, *Tellabration!* In New Haven and South Windsor, CT. She has also produced Tellabration! New Haven at The New Haven Pride Center, and Speak?Easy., a live themed storytelling event.

Aaron Foss

Aaron Foss is an accomplished serial entrepreneur with 5 companies under his belt. His company, Nomorobo, which stopped billions of unwanted robocalls and spam texts from reaching our phones, was acquired by Applause Group in August of 2023. Before that, he was part of Techstars NYC with SideTour, a marketplace for unique experiences, which was acquired by Groupon in 2013.

Aaron has been featured in the New York Times, Wired, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, and countless other media outlets. He has testified in front of Congress not once, not twice, but three times. He lives in Port Jefferson, NY.

(mostly) TRUE THINGS is produced by Lifestage, Inc a training and consulting company that provides creative online and in-person workshops and classes for personal and professional development, and partners with arts-based organizations to create community-building events.