Izolda Trakhtenberg, Storyteller

Playwright, Author, Director, Podcaster

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Writer, speaker, singer, educator

Category: performance

  • On Touchstones – We need them in storytelling and in life

    Everything in my life has been coming back to relevance. As I develop this new phase of my life, I am trimming away anything that doesn’t serve me. I have modified my patterns of behavior, thought modes, and emotional triggers. My motto is: If it doesn’t serve me, it goes. That perspective makes things easier,…

  • Tongue-Tied Up on a Word? Use Tongue Twisters.

    For my voiceover/narration friends and singing students who follow me here:  A colleague asked a question about how to pronounce certain words when saying them comes out sounding wrong. In this case, it was “protests.” Here’s my answer. It might be helpful to others of you as well. “First, you need to do some practicing…

  • In high school, I played Jennie Parsons in our production of “Down in the Valley.” There is a point at which Jennie must scream the scream to end all screams, at which point, the entire action of the show comes to a dead stop and it’s just her scream that sounds and sounds and sounds.…