STORY CLUB
BIOS August 12th show Previous Featured Performers JC Aevaliotis Mary Dean Cason Gisella Faggi Gisella Faggi has identity issues that stem from growing up as a first generation American. She writes about these issues. Recently, her short script, The Pope's Visit, won first place in the prestigious Written Image Awards. Her work has also screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and she was a participant in the State Department-sponsored Fusion Arts Exchange Program in 2007. Currently, she is developing two feature-length screenplays: one a Bollywood-inspired musical, the other a horror film. Aubrey Henretty Tom Reilly Tom Reilly grew up behind the Chicago Stockyards. Fred Reuland Fred Reuland has a B.A. in Theatre and has recently found his true calling as a writer of quirky short stories set in the 1960's. Behind his lofty literary goals is a conviction to make readers laugh out loud Harz Sondericker Harz has been performing and writing in
Dana Norris
Dana is the founder and host of Story Club. She has a Bachelors in Creative Writing and Religion and from Wittenberg University and a Master in Religious Studies from The University of Chicago. Dana also has a Certificate in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Chicago and is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Northwestern University.
Dana will be appearing in the Beast Women cabaret this summer. She recently won the AWP Intro Journals Creative Nonfiction prize and will be published in the Tampa Review. She also received a Writers Studio Student Prize from the University of Chicago Graham School, was a finalist for the Guild Complex Nonfiction Prize, is a contributor to Praxis Magazine and was first runner-up at the February & April 2010 Moth StorySLAMs in Chicago.
Dana loves hosting an open mic and she especially loves it when the stories get weird.
Alyson Lyon
Alyson Lyon is the co-producer of Essay Fiesta, in addition to being a monthly featured reader. She is also an actor, musician and writer. A Chicago native and graduate of DePaul’s Theatre School, Alyson’s performance highlights include: “12 Ophelias” at Trap Door, “The Vagina Monologues” at the Apollo Theatre, Redmoon Theatre’s “Balloon Man”, “Overwintering” at iO (acted in and directed), “Pajama Girl” (her one-woman show) at the Chopin Theatre, a guest star appearance on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and a cameo in Jeff Garlin’s “I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With”. Alyson plays bass, guitar and sings and can be seen Thursdays at the original Potbelly’s on Lincoln and Fridays at Potbelly on Clark and Diversey. She also keeps it real on a daily basis.
Keith Ecker
Keith Ecker is the co-producer of Essay Fiesta, in addition to being a monthly featured reader. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. When the journalism industry became a joke, he decided to get into comedy. He has studied improv at the Second City, iO and the Annoyance Theatre. He was a founding member of the improv group Armchair Showcase; he was the co-founder, head writer and producer of the sketch group The Alliance; he’s performed stand-up all around Chicago; and he's the writer and star of the Outworld series Word of the Gay. He’s also a professional freelance writer, a theater critic for the Chicago Theater Blog and the mind behind the ChicagoNow blog Satire and the City.
JC has taken a winding path to
JT Berg
James Berg has studied at the University of Iowa, DePaul University, Sorbonne University in Paris and the University of Chicago. When he's on his bike and he sees you, he will wave and say hello.
Caryn Berman
Caryn tells stories to better understand people and life.
Throughout a twenty-year career as an ad writer in
Shannon Cason
Shannon Cason was raised in Detroit, and now lives in Chicago. He blogs at www.shannoncason.com and hosts a podcast, Homemade Stories, available on iTunes.
He is currently writing the kind of novel he likes to read.
Evan Clossin
E. Clossin has fought the majority of adult males in the city of
Never touch him or look him in the eye.
Julie Danis
Aubrey Henretty is a pretty good guesser.
She lives in Chicago.
Jennifer Peepas
Jennifer Peepas used to live in
In her free time she enjoys cooking food and then taking pictures of that food. If she were a superhero, her name would be Captain Awkward, and her superpower would be making it weird.
When he was 9 years old, he shoveled manure off the loading dock ramps. At 10, he attempted to open
a used Christmas tree business. At 11, sold football parlay cards in the schoolyard for the mob.
It figures that, as an adult, he would run an advertising agency. Clients included The Chicago White Sox, George Ryan (yes, that George Ryan!) and Charlie the Tuna. In 2004, he sold his agency to write Playing In The Jungle, his memoir about growing up in Back of the Yards and has appeared on stage at several
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three years now. He has studied at the iO Theater and
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