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We help businesses and public organizations create compelling, emotional stories to bring their products, brands and company cultures to life.

Marketing and messaging aren’t enough.

You know stories matter. We make stories work.

Story is the most powerful way to communicate with human beings. But storytelling is a deep, rare skillset that most organizations just don’t have in-house. That’s where we come in. If you’re trying to get one specific story right or just improve your overall organizational storytelling abilities, we can help.

You can’t fake story skills.

Our powerful storytelling approach is built on years of experience

Our unique story process

Our unique storytelling approach, process and tools draw from our years of work in screenwriting, journalism, comic books and marketing.

We build story partnerships

We partner with your communications teams, executives and creative agencies to amplify your ideas with our storytelling approach.

Expand your story capabilities

We can help expand your storytelling capabilities or design an internal story studio, no matter what point you’re starting from.

How we can help

Discovery & Consulting

For clients looking to enhance their overall storytelling capabilities, to build out a strategic story roadmap or to develop an in-house story studio, we partner on an ongoing basis.

Story Consulting
Story Strategy for Business
Story Studio Development

Explorations & Story Mapping

We lead an exploration of potential story approaches, concepts and mediums. This takes the form of focused workshops with single stakeholders or larger teams in your organization.

Story Exploration Workshops
Story Development Bootcamps
Graphic Recording & Story Facilitation

Story Breaking & Story Making

This is where we bring the stories to life, with in-depth, iterative creative work to create potent story outlines all the way through to finished stories across mediums.

Treatments, Scripts & Finished Videos
Comic Books and Graphic Novels
Speeches
Story is universal.

We work with all kinds of organizations and industries

Businesses and enterprises

Educational organizations

Non-profits

Political organizations

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Public speakers and lecturers

Who are these mystery men?

Meet our lead storytellers

Ryan Degama

Story Director

Ryan DeGama brings a broad writing background that includes over two decades of work in journalism, screenwriting and copywriting. He leads all story design for Midtown Mystery and partners with our creative team and clients on execution.

Ryan has lived all around the world: in a hostel in Edinburgh, Scotland, an apartment in downtown Toronto and a house in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. A longtime basketball junkie, Ryan has since retired from pickup hoops and now spends much of his time attending to his loyal-but-demanding cattle dog and lingering in bookstores and vineyards for longer than is strictly necessary.

Jason Mathis

Creative Director

Jason Mathis comes to storytelling from a visual and fine arts background, with a particular focus on graphic design, comic books, painting and printmaking. He oversees all visual creative work for Midtown Mystery and partners with our clients on story execution.

For over two decades, Jason has lived and told stories around the world, including stops in Massachusetts, Kingston, Calgary and almost a decade in Glasgow, Scotland where he completed his MFA at The Glasgow School of Art. He’s a craft brewer, board gamer and a surprisingly confident tennis player, given his particular set of skills.

Ready to tell your story? Want to learn more?

Let’s talk.

We love helping people and organizations around the world tell better stories. Tell us a bit about how we can help and we’ll be in touch right away.

Contact us

hi@midtownmystery.com