We just finished up our auditions for both the MAELSTROM (improvised storytelling) and SKALD13 and A) it was an absolute blast and B) the talent this year was OFF THE HOOK!  I see storytelling shit all year long and even I was impressed.  Both Rebecca and Lori (who assisted in the auditing) were suitably blown away!

So, without any more fucking hyperbolic fanfare, here they are:

MAELSTROM
Friday, June 15 at 8PM
Strawdog Theater Mainstage

HOST:  Don Hall

Competing Storytellers:

Deanna Moffitt
Tim Huerlin
Peter Athans
Jamie Buell
Fuzzy Gerdes
Dorrie Ferguson

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SKALD13
Saturday, June 16 at 8PM
Strawdog Theater Mainstage 

HOST: WBEZ’s Steve Edwards

Competitors:

Amanda Rountree
Dave Goss
Scott Whitehair
Dennis Frymire
Kevin Gladish
J.H. Palmer
Valentine Soposky
Stephanie Douglas
Regan Davis
Jamie Buell

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Congratulations to all of the Skalds this year and many thanks to everyone who auditioned – it was a genuinely enjoyable time to hang out with brilliant, creative, funny people and let them go for it for three hours.

Yup.

It’s that time, gang.  WNEP is finally getting up offa our collective ass and getting some quality entertainment flung out to your universe.

I hear you.

“What? You guys are still around?”
“Where the hell have you been?”
“Did you just put the word “fucking” in your title?”

Yes.
We were busy having babies, paying bills, living in Portage Park and then not living in Portage Park, ditching our shitty, money-sucking condo, losing jobs, getting jobs, telling stories, having sex, and generally living that thing we consider LIFE.
Yes – you gotta problem with the Music of Obscenity?

After our “sabbatical,” we’re planning some things I think you will be geeked to check out.

First – and indicative of the post title – SKALD13.  Yes, you cannot spit in Chicago and not hit a storytelling event anymore.  Hell, I’m the host of The Moth! Well, SKALD13 is “the longest running annual storytelling competition with a cash prize.”  Chew on that 2nd Story!

Later, look forward to the Home Theater Project – three one-act plays written by Dave Goss, Joe Janes, and Rebecca Langguth explicitly for performance in people’s homes.

Then we have another insane Joe Janes project coming.

We’re 20 years old (which in theater terms is, like, 105 years old).

Get off our lawn and get into a theater.

Tickets for SKALD13 will be posted soon.

To schedule an audition, go here.