Joey Madia, Storytelling and Immersive Design Services

 Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Christopher Vogler, The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers David Mamet, The Three Uses of the Knife Robert McKee, Story Syd Field, Screenplay William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade Stephen King, On Writing John Howard Lawson, Theory and Technique of Playwriting Bernard Grebanier, How to Write for Theater Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics Here is my video discussing these books:   For more information on my book on storytelling, Every Day Is a Story All Its Own: https://joeymadiastoryteller.blogspot.com/2025/02/every-day-is-story-all-its-own.html

Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture Robert Evans, The Fat Lady Sang John Gielgud, An Actor and His Time Steven Martin, Pure Drivel Woody Allen, Side Effects Richard E. Grant, With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant Russell Brand, My Booky Wook Jane Lynch, Happy Accidents Errol Flynn, My Wicked, Wicked Ways Cary Elwes, As You Wish My video discussing these books:

                   Commissioned by Seven Story Theatre Company in 2010 This play was made possible by a grant from the Monmouth County Arts Council and several private donors. This play has had productions or readings in New Jersey, Connecticut, Ireland, Kentucky, and Colorado. Author’s Note The writing of this play would not have been possible without the trust and honesty of the members of Seven Stories (formerly New Mystics) Theatre Company, whose willingness to talk about teen suicide and put themselves in the place of their peers who cannot stand up and speak for themselves is awe-inspiring and deeply humbling. You will never know whose life you may have saved by giving so much of yourselves. Production Note The stage is empty except for several boxes of different sizes, placed around the stage haphazardly. Some are stacked, others solitary.              ...

[ Staging Note : A variety of ladders, boxes and chairs are used to create levels and stage pictures as this Spoken Word piece is performed. Actors should speak to one another as well as to the audience] VOICE: This is for Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks… EVERYONE: Control the Word and You Control the World… VOICE: Throughout its history, Humankind has waged wars of Hate upon its own. VOICE: Country against country, culture vs. culture, city vs. town, group against the one, one against the Other… VOICE: Violence is societal, VOICE: Violence is domestic, VOICE: Violence is sexual, VOICE: Violence is racial, VOICE: Violence is mindless, EVERYONE: Violence brings the night… VOICE: Violence grips our schools, our temples, churches, mosques; VOICE: The media and TV show violence all the time; VOICE: Violence can be physical, emotional, psychological; VOICE: Violence can be war, or a harsh word to a child; VOICE: Violence ruins freedom; VOICE:...

This was written in 2022 for the Oklahoma Chautauqua Companion Reader when I toured Tulsa, Enid, and Lawton as All. At each venue I did a 45-minute presentation followed by 30 minutes of Q and A and two workshops . Due to fears about the political climate at that time, I performed with a police officer standing eight feet behind me in Tulsa. This tour was made possible with the cooperation and permission of the Wylie Agency and The Ginsberg Project. The bodies of work produced by gifted artists are reflective of their real-time and cumulative life experiences. Allen Ginsberg, born in 1926 in New Jersey to Jewish parents, fully embodi ed sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. His father Louis was a poet and teacher. His mother Naomi was a communist who suffered from mental illness, including paranoid delusions of persecution. Trusting only Allen, she walked naked around their home. He missed considerable school to visit her in institutions. Amid Louis’s divorcing Naomi and remarryin...

  This was written in 2019 for the Oklahoma Chautauqua Companion Reader when I toured Tulsa, Enid, and Lawton as Che. At each venue I did a 45-minute presentation followed by 30 minutes of Q and A and two workshops . The choice to include Che in the program was not without controversy. I also portrayed Che for the Ed Kinney Lecture Series in Pleasanton, California, via video in 2020. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina, to middle-class parents.   The man who became the literal poster boy for revolution was a complex child and teen. As a toddler , he developed severe asthma, which directed the path of his life, including disqualification from the army. Despite his physical limitations, Che played sports, striving to be like other children, until it exhausted him. He then took to his bed, reading philosophers, novelists, and poets. He kept meticulous notes of the books he read and of his theories, a practice lasting until his death....