Launching stories loudly and unapologetically
in Ventura County since 1993.

Coaching

Kim Maxwell has developed unique exercises based in acting, writing and public speaking over her 30 years of teaching experience. Get a creative kick in the pants to help you on your journey towards that big speech, a work presentation or plain old self-confidence.

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Podcast

A storytelling podcast, The Townies Podcast presents live original stories (written in Kim’s class) and now, in Season 2, a glimpse into the lives of the real people who wrote them. All 44 episodes are available wherever you get your podcasts!

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RUN ON SENTENCE ALERT!! So this wise, hilarious, compassionate, subversively sarcastic, talented-genius-human walks into my family as my son’s best friend in 1st grade — and steals all of our hearts. 
Years of birthdays, family dinners,
Several brilliant humans that I I adore will be flinging their beautiful words and big hearts into the abyss of a LIVE — YES, LIVE audience at the Center Stage Theater in Santa Barbara!!!
That’s right SHOW PONIES for one night only tonigh
RUN-ON-SENTENCE ALERT!!!!! So, this ragingly talented, handsome, hilarious, kind and endlessly creative wordsmith walks into my life — loves me, believes in me, holds a place for me as I find my way — while simultaneously kicking out bril
Dearest Wildly Talented Word Nerds That I Adore, The Townies, Inc. is the theatrical love of my life. Most of you know that the OTHER theatrical love of my life is The Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC). I am a co-founder, current board member and the
Forever and always my favorite picture of you — you wildly talented, hilarious, brilliant, Harry Potter obsessed, Gwyneth Paltrow smiting, genius-person, wordsmith!!! I love you and your beautiful words more than I can say!! Happy birthday Ste
So this magical, brilliant, hilarious, beautiful, fierce, soulful, tenacious, dedicated, curious, language-obsessed, entirely delightful human met me at the Ojai Hospital 28-years ago. 
I could not be more grateful for all the joy and wisdom and adve
WE DID IT!!! Noah Lashly’s hilarious, dark and delightful Comedy Party/Thing collided with the incredibly generous $5,000 dollar-for-dollar match from Jack & Nicole Fisher and The Townies, Inc. met (read: CRUSHED) our fundraising goal of $1
This Saturday, April 24 at 8 PM a group of our fabulously talented alumni and a few of their fabulously talented friends will gathering in the name of all things rip-roaringly hilarious, tastefully inappropriate and wildly entertaining to present the
So — like 25-ish years ago this brilliant, hilarious, wise and formidable human being brings more art and stories and mobiles and laughter and joy and french toast into a persons life than is possible to comprehend — and I am grateful for