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These are the guidelines to score a story

1. meet the theme in some way
2. be a true personal story
3. have some sort of story arc, beginning and ending
4. told from memory (no notes allowed)
5. meet the time requirements
September 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Our next storytelling class begin August 20!
www.testifyatx.com/storytellers...
August 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Please join Testify in welcoming Jeana Rich to the Testify stage. She'll be sharing her story, "Break-Up Playlist" for our storytelling show, Let the Music Play.
You can get your tickets here: www.facebook.com/share/19jQ1T...
July 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Music has a way of triggering memories. Good ones, bad ones. Sometimes a melody can soothe the broken heart. Sometimes it's a reminder of where we've been.

Music sneaks into our lives in many different ways. These are those stories.
July 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Testify is the longest running storytelling show in Austin, Tx. Our producers love working with storytellers honing their stories, and finding meaning in the tales they share.

If you're in Austin drop by and check out the show, or better yet, submit your story and come and tell it on stage.
July 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A short clip from the Susan Mack story, "Skunked."

You can see her full story here: youtu.be/hdanLo9a59U
June 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A short clip from the Solis Rough story "Any Song You Can Lip-sync To."

Is the artform of drag safe or unsafe, let a drag performer who caught on fire tell you.

Storyteller Solis C Rough and his story: Any Song You Can Lipsync.
June 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
June 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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This is it. This is the picture.

In the future, when textbooks explain what fascism in 2025 looked like, it's gonna be this photo of these three dudes acting like whoever was taking the picture of them was the one in the wrong.
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.

ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
June 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A short clip of Aaron Salinas telling his story "Sneezes and Living."

Check out his full story here: youtu.be/NmltpqiPbKY
June 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A short clip of Kristen Drenning from her story "Downward Slope."

Check out her full story here: youtu.be/9rGwf_ox-n0
June 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Please join Testify in welcoming Holly Richardson to the Testify stage. She'll be sharing her story, "Heat Waves" for our storytelling show, True Colors.

You can get your tickets here: www.facebook.com/share/1PZREU...
May 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Our storytellers for our upcoming show "True Colors," Holly Richardson, Richard Ver Steeg, Carin LaCount, Paige Burnett, Jess Freasier, Meredith Hoffman.
May 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Our next storytelling show is on June 5! Come hear some true stories from the folks who lived them.
May 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
April 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The Austin Story Slam, May 1 at the Barrel O'Fun
April 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Carol Ramsey closes out our February show with a dog story.
February 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Please join Testify in welcoming Ann Locasio to the Testify stage.

She knows that animals speak to those who know how to listen. She grew up in five different countries and has published a memoir about her nomadic childhood called "Growing Up Weird."

Get tickets here: www.testifyatx.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Our next storytelling show is February 6. Six storytellers share a part of their lives onstage.

Our theme is "That's What Friends are For."

Friends can change our lives. These are stories about relationships that change us, hopefully for the better.
February 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Join us for some stories this Thursday, 12/5.

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Testify Presents: Holiday Road- A Storytelling Show
true stories from the journey
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December 4, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Richard Ver Steeg amazes the audience with his story "Beerpocalypse."
November 14, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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Sometimes the words won't come & you'll find yourself stuck in a scene. The best way to write your way out is to write the shitty version of the scene. Even let the writing be bad if need be.

Just. Get. Out. Of. That. Scene.

Finish the story then trust your taste to know how to fix it in editing.
November 14, 2024 at 5:21 PM