Once a month, A Guide To Visitors presents a curated selection of real life stories.

You know those stories you hear at bars or dinner parties, from friends or strangers? The ones that haunt you for days?

We spend all month finding those stories and then present them to you. On stage, not by actors, but by the people themselves.

Each month, you get a half dozen stories served up fresh n' piping hot! 

A Guide to Visitors brings individuals together through their personal histories. By inspiring people to share their stories, we are making narrative accessible again.

A Guide To Visitors is the brain child of Dave Snyder and Jeannie Yandel who met as producers for the once nationally syndicated Rewind from National Public Radio. Dave has a degree in creative writing and Jeannie has worked for many a theater company in the Chicago area. Taking their love of stories and knowledge of theater, Dave and Jeannie have crafted a unique stage experience. Neither a literary reading nor a play, A Guide To Visitors offers a night of entertainment as different as it is compelling.

Assisting Dave and Jeannie:

• Phyllis Fletcher is a Reporter and Host with KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio and a long-time amateur story scout and raconteuse. Having found a vocation that requires talking to people and listening to people talk, her life is now complete.
  
• Rebecca Grossman is an East Coast native who only meant to move to Seattle for a few months to get out of her mom's house. Twelve years later, she has a day job at a child advocacy nonprofit, makes kick-ass jewelry at night, and has no intention of leaving this city. A few months ago a friend of hers dragged her to some story workshop, and she wound up telling a story about losing her virginity. That was the first workshop for the first A Guide To Visitors, and she got hooked, and now she's the right brain of the organization.
  
• Charles Redell first told a story at the inaugural A Guide to Visitors largely because he thought the idea was such a good one. As someone trying earning a living as a writer with a degree in theater, the idea of telling the true stories of one's life onstage was a natural for him (and a way to use his degree and talents, imagine that!). Later, when he was asked to join the creative brain trust behind the whole shebang, Charles had no choice but to say "Hell yes! Where do I sign?"
  
• Sabrina Roach met Dave and Jeannie while working at KUOW back in 2000. Having told a story at the first AGTV, she has been sold on it from the beginning, but didn't join up till December 2003. Born and raised in Seattle, she has done short stints in Nova Scotia and Belgium. Sabrina teaches and makes radio as well as writes and performs. She currently does these things, in that order, at KUOW 94.9, KBCS 91.3, Jack Straw Productions, Bent Writing Institute, and various dives/stages on the West Coast, Southwest, and Midwest.