The Whole Story Podcast

Season 2 is here!  Notably, Julia and Asher are back with a new co-host, new shoes, and an excited attitude for all our amazing season 2 interviews.

Season 2 is coming at ya - we’re getting real deep into stories, deeper than you could have ever imagined.  We got panels, we got live shows, we got interviews on location, we got babies, we got ALL different kinds of stories and wonderful people.

In our Season 1 live show we had Dawn Fraser, Sandi Marx, Mark Pagan, Nisse Greenberg, and Kevin Allison return for a panel discussion.  With surprise guests Brad Lawrence and Colin Wilhm.  We talked about  where storytelling is going, who our Yodas are, and even played a game with our guests.

Thanks to everyone for making season 1 such a delight, we’ll see you in the Fall for season 2!

Hi friends!  Julia and Asher caught up to remind you about our upcoming LIVE SHOW on June 16th!  

Shout outs in this episode to: The Lower East Side Film Festival, Susan Kent, David Crabb, Naked and Afraid, Jaime Brickhouse, and many others.

Please join us for our live show!  

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Join us as we celebrate the first season of the Whole Story! In our first 6 episodes we talked about what storytelling is, how it shapes who we are as people, performers, and professionals. We talked about the origins of the emerging storytelling scene, the roots of storytelling, and look at where it can go as a medium in the future.

For our first live show, we will have on our season 1 guests (Kevin Allison, Sandi Marx, Nisse Greenberg, Mark Pagan, and Dawn Fraser) and discuss these and more topics in more detail. We’ll also have special guest appearances of storytellers whom you may hear in season 2. The night will be hosted by Asher Novek and Julia Whitehouse, and presented by Nous Entertainment.

In our season 1 finale we got to talk to Dawn Fraser!  We learned about how being a coach makes you a better person, why cutting hair is such a perfect pair with storytelling, and why it’s important to always go funky first.  Thanks Dawn!

Dawn J. Fraser is a storyteller, educator and and nationally acclaimed speaker based out of New York City. She is the Host of the live show and upcoming podcast ‘Barbershop Stories’, which features storytellers performing true tales in barbershops and salons. Dawn has created programs for college students, educators and entrepreneurs to develop leadership potential through storytelling, and is an Instructor with The Moth and The Story Studio. She was featured amongst some of the nation’s top innovators and change makers as a speaker at TED@NYC and has performed in shows including The Moth Mainstage, Story Collider, RISK and The Unchained Tour. She loves being a twin, a Trinidadian, and tweetable @dawnjfraser.

SURPRISE MINI EPISODE WHAAAT!

Hear some of Julia, Asher, and Adams thoughts about our storytelling heroes, narcissism, and whether or not Asher should start wearing high heels to his shows.   

Let’s talk about male vulnerability, manhood, hair, poop, telling stories about people in front of them, and how storytelling can help you deal with something you feel shame over.  Let’s talk about all these things with our guest, Mark Pagan!

Mark Pagán is an award-winning storyteller, comedian, multimedia artist, and writer best known for his humorous autobiographical and documentary vignettes for stage, television, online, screenings, print, and installation. 

Mark’s work and performances have been shown at festivals worldwide including Slamdance Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Chicago Improv Festival. He performs frequently at The Moth, Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater, Peoples Improv Theater, Magnet Theater, Tell it: Brooklyn, No Name, and Split Personality.

Dana Rossi (Soundtrack Series) sat down with us this week to talk about the impact of music on our memories, how to deal with ideas that stop you in your tracks, and stories about cocaine fueled nights that resulted in the creation of the best rock albums of all time.

Dana Rossi is the creator and producer of The Soundtrack Series (www.soundtrackseries.com), which has been called “Superb” by the AV Club and “One of the Ten Best Podcasts in New York” by Time Out New York. She works as a television producer on true crime documentaries.

This week we sat down with the ever-delightful Nisse Greenberg.  We discuss the openness and raw emotions that storytelling can and should bring out in us, Nisse’s own personal neuroses, and how a sketch about exploding diarrhea represented his true self.   

Nisse Greenberg is an award winning storyteller and educator who has produced a bunch of shows and performed on more of them. He is the co-creator of VHS Presents and Drawn Out Storytelling, and the creator of Bad Feelings. He likes radishes. He once got paid to get naked and cry at lincoln center. He’s sick right now. He thinks it’s a sinus infection. He drank some horseradish and apple-cider vinegar, and now he’s gonna make turmeric tea. (editor’s note: Nisse is alive and healthy at present time) His playground is at nissegreenberg.com

In our second mini-episode, Asher, Julia, and Adam talk about the importance of listening to each other when working on stories.

On this week’s show we sat with 7 time Moth Slam winner Sandi Marx to talk about telling stories over and over again, the difference between talking “to” and “with” an audience, and staying awake past 11pm.

Sandi Marx, a seven time Moth storytelling champ is busy telling her stories all over New York. She has been featured at the 92nd St Y with Piper Kerman, Yum’s the Word, The Liar Show and many more. She can also be heard on podcasts like RISK, and most recently, SOUNDTRACK SERIES with Dana Rossi. A retired talent agent, Sandi enjoys taunting her three grown children, regularly sharing their stories too.