Do Story

Bobette Buster grew up in Kentucky, in a region renowned for its great storytellers. After graduating, she produced an oral history of the area that is now archived at the Kentucky Museum. She then moved to Hollywood to learn the business of script development. She is the author of Do Listen: Understand what's really being said. Find a new way forward; the writer and producer of documentary, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, and several feature narrative projects. In 2019, she gave a TEDx Lecture entitled, 'The Radical Act of Storytelling'. She has been a story consultant and speaker to major studios including Pixar, Disney, Sony Animation and Amazon Games, and to leading production companies, as well as advertising and marketing agencies around the world. She lectures and serves on the visiting faculties of many academic institutions, most recently as the Professor of the Practice of Digital Storytelling at Northeastern University and Adjunct Professor of Storytelling and Science Communication at Tufts University. She lives in Los Angeles, California.