Mezrab: the blog!

Hey folks, there’s a few exciting news things happening, and we’d love for you to hear it and share it. one is that the show My Father… Read more “Two different kinds of stories”

So, I’m sitting in the Mezrab at the final Wednesday night storytelling event here before we take a summer break. I’m not hosting it myself, our good… Read more “Stories, stories, stories”

For a while we’ve been trying to seed storytelling in new places. To get new audiences to know our beloved artform, to let it find more and… Read more “Two new places for Stories”

A week and a half ago we were bestowed a huge honour. To get it (and I had no idea I would get it) I raced from… Read more “The Herman Divendal award”

Though the romantic story of how I got into storytelling is that my father inspired me, there’s another storyteller who played a part almost as large. I… Read more “The Storyteller dies…”

Last night we finished our four day collaboration Other Stories with the Frascati theater. It was an experiment to see if audiences would appreciate more storytelling in theaters, how… Read more “Mezrab @ Frascati / Storytelling @ Theater”

So, here’s a little artist migrant’s conundrum that I feel. I love that storytelling is a respected art in my country of origin, and I’m incredibly happy… Read more “The good and evil of Storytelling”

You sneaky little Jew, I found myself shouting during a show. And again: You sneaky dirty lying little Jew. It’s probably the hardest lines I’ve ever said… Read more “You sneaky little Jew! (and other insults)”

Two years ago, around the same time we where crowdfunding the move of the Mezrab, I was an avid reader of Andrew Sullivan’s blog the Daily Dish.… Read more “The Beyond…”

Last week I posted a simple message on my personal facebook: “Twelve years ago we started a monthly storytelling night in a tiny teahouse. There wasn’t anything… Read more “The Storytelling Revolution”