Jude Treder-Wolff founded Lifestage in 1993 with her husband, Nicholas Wolff. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Practitioner of Applied Improvisation, and creative arts therapist, with 40 years of experience as a clinician and trainer. She has worked in every area of mental health, including inpatient, outpatient, and private practice treatment, and training professionals in health care, mental health, wellness, education, and human services. She is also a writer/performer, singer, improviser, and storyteller who speaks and presents about the wide-ranging applications of creativity to mental health and professional development. She has designed and facilitated training workshops and classes about creativity in healing, learning, and professional development for The National Association Of Social Workers-New York State annual conferences, UC-Berkeley Continuing Education Program For Behavioral Sciences, SUNY-Buffalo Institute For Addiction Studies, The Psychotherapy Networker Symposium in Washington, D.C., The Examined Life Conference at Carver College Of Medicine in Iowa City, IA, NYU Arts In Health Care among many other conferences and organizations around the country. She served as chair of the 2019 Applied Improvisation Network World Conference, in partnership with the Alan Alda Center For Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.

She is a trained improviser, having completed the programs at The Peoples Improv Theater and Magnet Theater in New York, and was on a Magnet Theater house team, and hosts the Improv In Real Life podcast, which explores the intersection of creativity and improv skills to dealing with real life goals and stresses. As a storyteller, she is a Moth slam winner, performs in shows in New York and around the country, including The Story Collider live show and podcast, RISK! live show and podcast, Generation Women, The Armando Diaz Experience, Story District in Washington, D.C., Ex Fabula in Milwaukee, WI (All-Star winner), Better Said Than Done and The Women’s Storytelling Festival in Fairfax, VA, Mortified, and many others. She is host of (mostly) TRUE THINGS, a game wrapped in a storytelling show produced by Lifestage.

She is published in the International Journal of Arts & Psychotherapy Special Issue on HIV/AIDS and International Journal of Arts & Psychotherapy Special Issue on Addiction, Music Therapy Perspectives, Psychodrama Network News, writes for medium.com and has been interviewed for articles that appeared in local and national publications and websites, including NBC News, Thelist.com, Bustle, VICE, Long Island Business News, LI Pulse, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, LA Times, Orlando Sentinel, Women’s Day, and the New York Daily News.