Jude Treder-Wolff is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Practitioner of Applied Improvisation, and creative arts therapist, with 40 years of experience as an innovative and improvisational clinician and trainer. Having worked in every area of mental health, she is also a writer/performer, storyteller, trained improviser, and host of the Improv In Real Life podcast, which explores the intersection of creativity and improv skills in dealing with real-life goals and stresses. She speaks and presents on the applications of creativity to personal and professional development, and has been interviewed for articles that appeared in 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. 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.

 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), PBS Stories From The Stage, 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, writes for medium.com and Substack.

She founded Lifestage in 1993 with her husband, Nicholas Wolff. A trained improviser, she completed the programs at The Peoples Improv Theater and Magnet Theater in New York, and was on a Magnet Theater house team, 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.