Featured Storytellers for December:

We’re so excited to announce our featured storytellers for December’s upcoming slam. We’ve got an actual Santa Claus who will call your kid and calm all her doubts about whether or not Santa really exists. We’ve got a badass theater maker and all around smarty pants. And maybe one more we’re still workin on. What d’ya think? Are they gonna be naughty or are they gonna be nice?

Kevin Lowry

KEVIN LOWRY started in theatre at the age of 14 in a performance of No, No, Nannette. He received his BFA in Theatre from Millikin University in 2001. He has been seen in show in St. Louis, Chicago, Iowa City and Denver. In Denver Kevin has performed in SHINING CITY at The Miners Alley Playhouse, GODSPELL at the Aurora Fox, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS at the Arvada Center and BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO at the Edge Theatre. He has also performed for television and film for the past eight years and was last seen in the short PAPER CRANE and the live action video game, RELICS. Kevin can currently be seen performing Improv with the groups Hot Nap and Makeshift Shakespeare in Denver. He also plays Santa over the phone to good boys and girls all over the USA. www.santacallsme.com

Emily K. Harrison

Originally from the Piney Woods of East Texas, EMILY K. HARRISON is the founder and producing artistic director of Boulder-based, award-winning square product theatre. She holds an MFA in Performance from the Savannah College of Art & Design, a bachelor’s degree in Acting and Writing from Boston’s Emerson College and a PhD in theatre from the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Emily was recently featured as one of Westword’s 100 Colorado Creatives series, and was recognized by the Denver Post as a 2011 Pathmaker. She is a big fan of hot dogs, summertime breezes, and Neko Case.

December slam

Sunday, December 15

7pm @ Shine

2027 13th St, Boulder, $10

We give you the theme.

You bring a story.

Five minutes tops. Must be true. Told by heart.

December’s Theme: NAUGHTY OR NICE

Photos from October slam!

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Photos from the Fringe

Here we are with a report from the edge and a link to photos from the slam night last week. The stories were edgy indeed. We had stories of a sideways river canyon, near drowning in Hawaii, surviving some hard-core teenage bullying, a snotty waitress, a single step over the edge of a cliff, a deaf woman’s discovery of her honeypot, a Sasquatch siting, and a new nurse finding her edge on the Christmas Eve shift.

Big thanks go to another great audience, to David Ortolano and the Boulder Fringe Festival for hosting us, to Agora at the Riverside for opening their great space to us, and of course to all the intrepid storytellers who got up on the stage and took us to the edge of our seats.

We did the judging a little differently this time around and let YOU the audience vote. We also had 4 categories of winners: most humorous (Katherine Millersdaughter), most poignant (Nurse Jackie), best storytelling chops (Amber Nystrom) and best overall story (Hal Walker). We’d love to hear your feedback on how that worked! Other than it taking forever to tally, what did you think of that system? Click here and let us know.

All photos by Marvin Ross at marvinrossphotography.com

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