Words & Music: Turning the Page

Kadi Diop is a half-Guinean, half-Senegalese queer, fat, bilingual, and multi-hyphenate comedian and storyteller. She is also a long-time community organizer, a sexology student, and the former French Education Director and French Inclusion and Diversity coordinator at Montreal Improv. She has performed at OFF-JFL, Zoofest, the Black and Funny Improv Festival, Ottawa Improv festival, Montreal Sketchfest, MProv, and Ladyfest. Kadi performs improv and storytelling regularly in Montreal on various teams, is one half of the sketch duo Inside Scoop, and a doting/annoying auntie.

Kurt Mullen is an award-winning storyteller, writer, teacher, editor, and producer. He has appeared on WGBH’s Stories from the Stage, RISK!, and the GRIT: True Stories podcast. In magazines, literary journals and anthologies, Kurt has written about soldiers coming home from war, about his own personal loss and grief, and about the quirky folks who like to go it alone in this world. Kurt lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with his wife, Amy Ruth. Learn more about Kurt’s work at www.kurtmullen.com.

Johanne Pelletier is an award-winning storyteller working in communications in Montreal. She teaches storytelling concepts to scientists and start-ups and is a regular performer of her own writing at shows in Canada and the U.S. She is the first Canadian to have one of her stories featured on Stories From the Stage at WGBH Studios, is the winner of the GRIT 99-Second Story Grand SLAM, and the first storyteller to be a finalist for the QWF Spoken Word Prize. For more and the stories, see www.jpelletier.ca.