David Vanadia

• Read Stop Being Sweet
• Attend a story workshop
• See My 9/11
• Watch Shave the World
• Listen to Sticky Stuff
• Attend a movement class

I’m David, a storyteller and storymaker who is passionate about practicing and teaching the art of applied narrative.

I began storytelling professionally in 1994. Since then, my original performances have been heard on stages of all kinds in the United States and abroad including at concerts, conferences, and events such as StoryCon, the Digital Storytelling Festival, the Trenton Avant Garde Festival, and the Yukon International Storytelling Festival.

During the dot com boom I lived in New York City and worked as a communications consultant. 9/11 changed all that. After witnessing the destruction of the World Trade Center, I questioned what it meant to be alive, left the rat race, and returned to college.

Today I lead Do It Yourself storytelling workshops for independent entrepreneurs and established organizations, collaborate on creative media projects, make original storyworks, teach movement classes, and live an unsweet life in Portland, Oregon with my partner Gwenn.