Stacy Dymalski

Personal Bio

A native west-coaster, I started my professional story-telling career as a standup comic at age 19 when I did an open mic night at the Punch Line in San Francisco. After that I spent every weekend onstage at comedy clubs. Three years later I graduated from UC Berkeley with a mathematics degree, and became a technical trainer and sales support engineer for companies like McDonnell Douglas, Computer Associates, Arthur Andersen, IBM, and Adobe. By day I honed my corporate speaking skills, but at night I continued doing standup in clubs like The Comedy Store, The Improv, and countless small clubs around the country. I was also a member of the improv groups The Fault Line Players and Off the Top Comedy. A few years later I enrolled in the UCLA post graduate Screenwriter program, and then found my niche as a script doctor and feature writer. Today I own my own story development business (branded as The Memoir Midwife), in which I help everyone from studios to retirees find, write, and share their stories (and I still perform standup). My specialty is comedy and story structure, however, I have a strong science background. I’m a single mother of two sons (ages 20 and 23), and I know what it’s like to struggle to put kids through college. However, I’ve always kept my sense of humor, as shown in my bestseller humor book, “Confessions of a Band Geek Mom.”