The Troupe

works on business and partnership building for True Story Theater, teaches creative movement and ecology classes, and coordinates creative exchanges with Playback North America. She is a certified Dynamic Embodiment somatic movement educator.

is a trained actor and drama therapist. He graduated from the Montreal Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in 2007 and from Concordia University graduate school in Montreal in 2015.

founded True Story Theater in 2001. He brings to his leadership over 35 years as a social entrepreneur and trainer. Before focusing on his passion for the arts, he was a national presenter and award-winning author on philanthropy promotion and co-founder of BolderGiving.org.

is a current Lesley University student studying Expressive Arts Therapy with interest in farm therapy. She has been a Playback artist for ten years.

discovered joy in performing while reciting Polish literature during his childhood in Poland in turbulent political and economic times. After moving to the USA, he trained in public speaking, contact improv dancing, and improvisational comedy. He develops software to improve the safety of cancer patients treated with radiation.

is an artist, actor, singer, and teacher working with issues of male behavior, positive sexuality, and white people working against racism.

is a professor at Merrimack College where she teaches theatre and directs. She has a masters degree in Expressive Therapies, loves to dance and is an avid Nia practitioner.

began her career onstage at age 15, with the circus. In 1998, she co-created a trapeze act which toured North and South America and Europe, and performed for six years in Germany’s thriving Cabaret scene. Teresa holds a degree in Expressive Therapies from Lesley University.

is an educator, musician, peer counseling teacher, community organizer, climate change activist and mother of a home schooled 12 year old. She currently teaches violin at the Suzuki School of Newton.

completed his masters in Mental Health Counseling, with a concentration in Expressive Art Therapy at Lesley University this May. He likes to bring imaginal thinking to the masses through mime performances and by drawing with strangers.

Ari tells stories for a living, reporting on science for NOVA and public radio. His grandmother turned him onto the world of theater in middle school, and it has been a passion of his ever since.

is a dancer, writer and bodyworker originally from Philadelphia PA. He is currently in school completing his clinical doctorate degree in physical therapy. In his free time he is probably wondering what all the craziness is about.

Megan Lynes grew up in Boston, and is a Unitarian Universalist parish minister in Bedford, MA. She is an artist, activist, theatre fan and animal lover, and especially enjoys leading a middle school youth group.

is passionate about the possibility of theater to be a tool for social justice. All the better to do it by telling stories

Prilly is an advocate for culturally responsive teaching and social justice work through the arts with more than 35 years experience in schools and community organizations. She is the co-founder and former director of the Arts, Community and Education Masters degree at Lesley University.