SATURDAY NIGHT STORYTELLING FOR ADULTS

Emcee & Producer

Called “a natural raconteur” by the Washington Post, Jamie Brickhouse is the New York Times published author of Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother, and he’s appeared on PBS-TV’s Stories from the Stage, The Moth Podcast, Risk! Podcast, Story Collider Podcast, and recorded voice-overs for the legendary cartoon Beavis and Butthead. He is a four-time Moth StorySLAM champion, National Storytelling Network Grand Slam winner, and Literary Death Match champ. Jamie tours two award-winning solo shows, Dangerous When Wet, based on his critically-acclaimed memoir, and I Favor My Daddy, based on his forthcoming memoir. A fixture on the New York storytelling circuit, he has appeared on stages across the country and in Mexico and Canada. Jamie’s personal essays have been published in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Daily Beast, Salon, Out, Huffington Post, and POZ. Friend him on Facebook, follow him on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube @jamiebrickhouse, and visit www.jamiebrickhouse.com.

Dawn J. Fraser (CA) is a storyteller, public speaker and a nationally acclaimed communications coach based out of San Jose, California. She is the Creator/ Host of ‘Barbershop Stories’, which features storytellers performing true tales in barbershops and salons around NYC, and the Founder/ CEO of Fraser’s Edge, LLC, which offers programs for businesses, nonprofits, and college students the opportunity to develop their leadership potential through storytelling. Past clients have included companies like Spotify, Vox Media and Google as well as 1 on 1 celebrities including the rapper Common. Dawn currently serves as a Lead Instructor with The Moth and was featured amongst some of the nation’s top change makers at TED@NYC. She loves being a twin, a Trinidadian, and tweetable @dawnjfraser.

Scott Whitehair (IL) is a storyteller, producer, and teacher from Chicago,IL. He is host of This Much Is True, the city's longest running monthly storytelling series, creator of Story Lab Chicago, which has put 700+ new and first time tellers on stage since 2011, and director of Do Not Submit, a citywide network of open mics with the goal of creating empathy among neighbors. He tells stories anywhere someone will listen, which has included Steppenwolf Theater, The Green Mill, The National Storytelling Festival's Exchange Place, and on NPR and The Risk Podcast.. Scott teaches a perpetually sold out monthly class, and assists corporations, non-profits, and individuals in finding their voices.

Julia Whitehouse (NY) is a writer, comedian, and storytelling teacher who has lived all over the world and is based in NYC. Her show NAKED PEOPLE ran at the Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC and LA as well as The Women in Comedy Festival. She is a Moth StorySlam winner and has performed live and on the podcasts of Risk!, Nights of Our Lives, and Love Hurts as well as co-hosting the podcast The Whole Story with Asher Novek. Writing credits include McSweeney's, Popsugar, Mutha Magazine, and Motherly. She also hosts Manhattan's longest-running weekly storytelling open mic Happy Hour Story Hour at The Duplex (pre-pandemic) and on Instagram Live @juliawhair (during pandemic) every Monday at 7 pm.

Award winning storyteller/writer/teacher Robin Bady (NY) has been performing nationally and internationally for the last 30 years. Based in Brooklyn, NY, she performs at spoken word venues, Fringe Festivals, theaters, and storytelling festivals. Her children’s work is featured at major museums, schools, theaters, libraries and parks. Robin is the founder and curator of “No, We Won’t Shut Up!” - a powerful project showcasing the voices of a diverse group of women speaking about racism, bigotry, wage theft, sexual assault and gentrification. She is the host of the BADYHouse Storytelling Concerts. Robin is currently preparing her solo show “Nancy Drewinsky and the Search for the Missing Letter” – a story about the affects of McCarthyism and anti-Semitism on her family – for online viewing. Robin received the J.J. Reneaux Award and the Oracle from NSN, and is a multi-year awardee of Brooklyn’s SuCasa grants.

Virginia native Chetter Galloway (GA) grew up hearing his father tell stories on Sunday road trips. He became interested in the art of storytelling while working at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and is a graduate of East Tennessee State University Master’s Program in Storytelling. Chetter’s storytelling has taken him on journeys across the United States performing at venues such as the National Black Arts Festival, The National Storytelling Summit, and the Smithsonian. Chetter is a member of the Southern Order of Storytellers, The National Storytelling Network, and serves as Vice president of Kuumba Storytellers of Georgia.