Stories Found

About This Episode In this episode of  Stories Found , we're chatting about art, life, and family with the award-winning writer of screen and stage,  Sophia Valera Heinecke  and then listening to her read her beautiful story, The Summer We Built a Pool. About the Storyteller Sophia Valera Heinecke Sophia Valera Heinecke  (she/her) is an award-winning writer for the screen and stage as well as a dr...

About This Episode In this episode of  Stories Found , we're talking to the phenomenal playwright and creative polymath,  Bethany Dickens  and then listening to her ten-minute comedy,  What's in the Basement, Honey?   About the Playwright Bethany Dickens Assaf Bethany Dickens Assaf  is a freelance playwright, dramaturg, and theatre artist, the Literary Manager for  MadLab Theatre  in Columbus, and...

About This Episode In this episode of  Stories Found , we're chatting with Austin-based playwright,  Max Langert  and hearing his ten-minute comedy, Personality Test. Take a free personality test here! Episode Transcript Here. About the Playwright Max Langert Max Langert  is a playwright, producer and storyteller living in Austin. His plays have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Dal...

About This Episode In this episode of  Stories Found , we hear the hilarious ten-minute play,  The Interview  by  Mark Harvey Levine . The Interview  is about a completely normal job interview — during a zombie apocalypse. Episode transcript here About the Playwright Mark Harvey Levine  has had over 1900 productions of his short plays everywhere from Bangalore to Bucharest and from Lima to London....

About This Episode In this episode of Stories Found , we hear the humorous ten-minute play, sixteen17 by Jason Rainey . sixteen17 is a funny play about the quirky relationship between a mother and her daughter as the daughter turns 17 -- a birthday that's an important milestone for the mother. Jason wrote this play as part of the ScriptWorks Weekend Fling. The Weekend Fling is ScriptWorks' annual...

In this episode of Stories Found, we feature the story, The Vagina-Mommy Incident by Ava Love Hanna . In hindsight, this is one of my favorite parenting moments - the first time my four year old asked me about genitals. I thought I would simply answer him in a straightforward and scientific way and that would be that. It did NOT go as planned. I'm your storyteller this week, Ava Love Hanna . I'm a...

In this episode of Stories Found , we hear the hilarious story, The First Time I Got Naked in Front of a Bunch of People I Didn't Know by Max Langert. Max takes it all off and describes his first experience at a spa in Amsterdam.  Max Langert has had plays produced in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Amsterdam. He's won the Henrico playwriting award, been named Best of the New Southern Theatre Fe...

In this episode of Stories Found, we hear the story, Am I Willing to Punch a Peacock?  by Ava Love Hanna. Ava's story was recorded live at Mayfield Park and the actual gang of rowdy peacocks that tried to ruin lunch with her son that day can be heard in the background. Links to a transcript of the story and a video of the performance are available on StoriesFound.com Ava is the host of the Stories...

Stories Found is brand new storytelling show... err, podcast . We've moved our staged comedy shows to the safe, germ-free world of digital storytelling! Each episode features a different writer or storyteller and their weird, funny, and mostly true stories. Check out the trailer, get to know Ava and Paul and get ready for our full episodes starting later in July. Also, make sure to submit your own...