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R. Jim Stahl (Creator of Monocular Man) is currently building the CLIMATE FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL with the help of 35 volunteers. He created the literary magazine Merlyn’s Pen. For nearly twenty years it published rising teen writers, poets, and playwrights for a readership of 100,000.

Stahl founded the New Library of Young Adult Writing, a resource of 1000 curated young adult stories and poems for young adults. He also created The American Teen Writer Series, eleven paperbacks that found readership in nine countries and translation into Chinese.  Books in the series were nominated to Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) and Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library). Stahl created the summer program Down to the Sea with Paper and Pen: each summer it took creative teens out to sea on a tall ship for a week of writing and adventure.

Stahl’s autobiographical monologues, which he began performing at 53, laid the groundwork for Monocular Man, a 90-minute play for one actor. Stories from it continue to entertain, and Stahl was picked as Best Storyteller and Audience Favorite at the First Person Festival of Memoir and Documentary Art (Philadelphia). He's performed his monologues at the National Storytelling Festival, in Jonesboro, TN,  and on the WGBH/WorldChannel television production Stories from the Stage. Stahl lives, writes, and sails a traditional boat on Narragansett Bay, in Rhode Island. He attended the Northfield Mt. Hermon School and at Georgetown majored in Philosophy before pursuing graduate training at Stanford and the University of Chicago. He holds an MAT (English) in Education