Dana Norris  is the founder and high priestess of the Story Club franchise. She produces and hosts Story Club North Side at Holiday Club in Chicago.  She once went on a lot of internet dates and she writes about those mistakes for the website Role Reboot and she teaches at StoryStudio Chicago.  She has been published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency,  The Rumpus, the Tampa Review, and her stories have been featured on WBEZ (91.5 FM) and Vocalo.org (89.5 FM).   She performs around Chicago with Mortified, The Paper Machete, The Kates, Essay Fiesta, This Much is True, Write Club, Guts and Glory, and many others.   You can see her upcoming performance schedule at dananorris.net.

Dana is currently pursuing her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Northwestern University. She loves hosting Story Club and she especially loves it when someone reads for the very first time.
Lindsey Crane is a Story Club intern who is pursuing an MA in Writing and Publishing at DePaul University. As a native Cape Codder, she’s acclimating to city life. Lindsey is primarily interested in nonfiction, although she enjoys writing fiction too. She likes to document the bizarre and hopes to one day be like the female David Sedaris. She's psyched to be a part of Story Club. 

 

Bios

Andrew Marikis is the host and co-producer of Story Club South Side.  He is also a writer and a Chicago-based actor. Onstage he's worked with Seanachai, Lifeline, BoHo, Sideshow and many other theatres, online you can read him at In Our Words Blog and in more intimate environs you'll hear him storytelling at Story Clubs North and South among others. He loves hearing a story that's totally true, and way too crazy to be true; and he harbors a not-so-secret obsession with dinosaurs.
Ian Hookway  has been co-producing Story Club at Holiday Club since 2010.  He is passionate about storytelling and he loves being part of an event that allows artists to connect with a wider audience.  Ian claims that one day he'll get up and tell a story himself, but he's probably lying.
Will Hindmarch is a writer, designer, and producer in Chicago. He co-produces Story Club South Side. Will’s writing has appeared in Atlanta magazine, Geek Monthly, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, as well as in games and books like The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosity. He's a co-founder of Gameplaywright Press and an instructor and speaker at the Shared Worlds writing camps.
Sarah Hollenbeck  is the publicity guru for Story Club South Side and the Senior Editor of Story Club Magazine.  She has worked for Chicago Review Press, the Tribune Company, and Borders Books & Music. In addition to single-handedly driving two of these companies to bankruptcy, Sarah has published personal essays in TriQuarterly, The CAF Review, and the In Our Words blog. She was awarded the Grand Prize in the 2013 Dogwood Literary Contest and selected to represent Northwestern University in the category of nonfiction for the AWP Intro Journals Project. She has performed at Story Club South Side, Guts & Glory, and That's All She Wrote. You can read more about her work at www.sarahmichaelhollenbeck.com

Previous Featured Performers

Kelly Anchors
Lilly Be
Caryn Berman
Ian Belknap
JT Berg
Caitlin Bergh
Chad the Bird
Mary Pat Bohan
Jen Bosworth
Shannon Cason
Mary Dean Cason
Kristin Clifford
Evan Clossin
Jen Companick
Beth Cummings
Julie Danis
Reagan Davis
Stephanie Douglass
Gayle Duberchin
Keith Ecker
Gisella Faggi
Dennis Frymire
Kevin Gladish
Adam Guerino
Don Hall
Aubrey Henretty
Julie Hill
Kenneth Hite
Nellie Huggins
Kelsie Huff
Samantha Irby
Maggie Jenkins
Len Joy
Erin Kahoa
Suzy Krueckeberg
Andrew Kudla
Nico Lang
Lara Levitan
Joan Lipschutz
Mary Lorenz
Alyson Lyon
Andrew Marikis
Deanna Moffit
Michael McColly
Cheryl McPhilimy
Monte
Amanda Morris
Mimi Nguyen
JH Palmer
Jennifer Peepas
Anne Purkey
Fred Reuland
Dmitry Samarov
Sarah Shockey
Lauren Sivak
Janna Sobel
Harz Sondericker
Valentine Soposky
Johanna Stein
Kendra Stevens
Jill Summers
Amy Sumpter
Ray Teresi
Claire Tibble
Michael Van Kerkhove
Scott Whitehair
Tom Wolferman
Claire Zulkey