About Us
We Tell Stories because we want to communicate. Storytelling is the Art Form of communication. And only communication is going to save this world.
“Play along Theatre for Young Hearts”
Mission Statement
WE TELL STORIES is a multiethnic storytelling troupe with a fourfold purpose.
- To entertain and stimulate the imaginative instincts of any audience young at heart through the literature, folklore and mythology of all times and cultures;
- To illuminate the artistic processes involved in the creation of theatre by crafting an interactive environment in which actors and audience may share a reciprocal creativity;
- To inspire communication as the highway along which peace may travel;
- To advocate the "flower pot" rather than the "melting pot" image of society--elucidating an intercultural awareness of the humanity that unites us and the beauties that distinguish us.
History
Audience participation is an integral part of every performance and we Always Make the Children Right!
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CARL WEINTRAUB, the founder and artistic director of We Tell Stories, began his professional acting career at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in 1974, but was creating theatre for young audiences long before that in upstate New York.
A graduate of U.C.L.A., Carl studied acting and improvisation with the venerable and recently departed Lou Palter and has performed on such stages as The Mark Taper Forum, the Los Angeles Theatre Center and the Odyssey Theatre. You can find his long list of movie and TV credits on IMDB.
Carl was the first recipient of the Los Angeles PASA Award for life achievement in professional artistry in schools and was the first actual artist (as opposed to educator) ever to receive the Los Angeles Music Center’s Bravo Award for achievement in arts education.
In parallel lives Carl has been a probation officer and a social worker, a mushroom farmer, and a stone mason. He’s taught school, cleaned latrines, played guitar and sung the blues in bars for money. Some say he passed through the town of Hamlin once, but that’s just gossip. His own children are aged 33, 47, 54, and 57 with 5 grandkids. He’s broken his back three times and his nose five. You can bet he’s got some tales to tell.
