"Connoisseurs of Story" — with Carlo D'Amore

Carlo D'Amore's murder mystery began as a hobby project pitched to a tour company that thought he was mad — three months later it was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and it's been running for more than a decade since. That instinct now drives LiveinTheater.com, his company staging fully improvised interactive theatre for corporate audiences instead of another workshop on communication skills. Carlo tells Westy what it actually takes to make a room of strangers feel safe enough to be vulnerable together, and why his answer is always the same: stop performing certainty and lean into the discomfort instead.