Totally True Things presents "A Hundred Indecisions"

About Mel Dockery: For most of her life, Meliora Dockery was a corporate trainer but then her son, Martin – an accomplished storyteller in his own right, suggested she try her hand at autobiographical stories. Since then, Mel has been weaving true stories about herself in and around New York City. She is a 3-time Moth slam winner, featured on NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour,  the Armando Diaz Experience, Andy Christie's Liar Show, Leslie Goshko's storytelling evenings at KGB bar, Now You’re Talking and (mostly) TRUE THINGS. She was a storytelling instructor for Kevin Allison's Story Studio and is now trying her hand at acting, improv. and play writing. Recently seen in a Zoom performance of A. R. Gurney’s “The Dining Room”, she shortly will be Zoom-appearing in Michael Cristofer’s “Shadow Box”.

About Rick Andrews: Rick Andrews is a teacher and performer at The Magnet Theater in New York City and has been studying, performing, and teaching improvisation since 1999. He began improvising with Improv Boston, continued with a stint in Saint Louis, MO and has been fortunate to learn from many improv greats, including Armando Diaz, Ed Herbstman, Joe Bill, Mark Sutton, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Will Luera, Jill Bernard, and more. Rick has taught workshops at improv festivals across the country, including the Boston Improv Festival, Baltimore Improv Festival, Black Box Atlanta, and many more. He co-produces Duofest, an annual festival of improv duos in Philly, PA and performs in the improv duo Kornfeld & Andrews which live-streams on the Magnet Twitch channel on Sunday evenings at 7:30 pm EDT. He has taught improvisation to people as old as 75 and as young as 6, and has done workshops for production companies and zoos alike.

HOST: Jude Treder-Wolff is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Group Psychotherapist, Certified Practitioner of Applied Improvisation, writer/performer and host/producer of Totally True Things: A Socially Conscious Storytelling Show and president of Lifestage, Inc, a training and consulting that provides creative workshops for personal and professional development and arts events that build community. She has been featured on PBS Stories From The Stage, Story District in Washington, DC, RISK, Mistakes Were Made, Ex Fabula 

and at other live shows around the country.  Her solo show This Isn't Helping was performed at the offBroadway Connelly Theater, The 2018 Whitefire Solo Theatre Festival, and at theaters and venues around the country. She is published in the International 

Journal Of Arts In Psychotherapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, Recovery Press and writes about improvisation, creativity and 

storytelling for Publishous and medium.com. She has been interviewed for articles appearing in NBC News, VICE, Thrive Global, Bumble.com, www.bustle.com, Women's Day, Long Island Pulse, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, LA Times and many others.