About the Telling Favorites Producers
KEVIN BIOLSI has been telling stories in the Chicago area since either mid-2016 or late 2017 depending on how you want to define “storytelling.” He has told at This Much Is True, First Person Live, Story Lab, Story Sessions, Soul Stories Live, Back Room Stories, Homewood Stories, Is This a Thing?, Homewood Stories, The People Tree, and The Moth StorySLAMs.
Kevin is associate producer and one of the hosts of the long-form storytelling show Fresh Meat as well as a frequent host of the online version of the open mic show Do Not Submit. He told stories on 25 episodes of his own Cabin Fever Story Time during the first 14 months of the pandemic (and has brought it back for winter 2021/22) and created and maintains the storytelling calendar website, chicago-storytelling.com. One of his stories is included in the book Chicago Storytellers from Stage to Page.
SCOTT WHITEHAIR is an international storyteller, instructor, and producer from Chicago, IL. He is the producer of This Much Is True, one of Chicago’s longest running storytelling series, the creator of Story Lab Chicago, which has put over 700 first-time performers on stage since 2011, and director of Do Not Submit, a grassroots network of open mics across the city with the goal of connecting people through personal narrative. 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. In 2015, he taught a weeklong intensive at All Hallows College in Dublin and in 2014 was the featured instructor at Hong Kong Story Worthy Week, headlined by David Sedaris.