StorySlam 2024

Save-the-date

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Fitzgerald’s Nightclub
6615 Roosevelt Rd. Berwyn

Join us for food, drink, and stories, all while supporting life-changing opportunities for wonderful students! You can see our roster of storytellers from 2023 below — stay tuned to learn more about this year’s group of talented and exciting presenters.

Thank you to our prize donors!

our Featured storytellers include:

Clifton Johnson is a recovering social worker who currently leads internal communications at Teach For America. During his time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Kingdom of Tonga, Cliff taught a youth theater troupe named “Tala Kei Kapa Na’a To Ki Mala,” which roughly translates to a warning about being eaten by devils – his other theater experiences include teaching youth improv in Chicago and writing/performing numerous plays. Cliff previously won a Moth StorySLAM and a national Peace Corps storytelling competition. When he’s not working or telling stories, Cliff enjoys writing fiction, watching great movies, and making and consuming enough pizza to cancel out whatever exercise he got that day.

Cliff recently completed work on a young adult fantasy adventure novel loosely inspired by his Peace Corps experience, so let him know if you have any connections at agencies or publishers!

Erin McEvoy Mason is an accomplished storyteller, improviser and writer. A Moth StorySLAM winner, Erin began performing improv and sketch comedy after graduating from The American University in Washington, D.C. She is a founding member of Sirens and has performed with various groups, including iO, The Second City, ComedySportz Chicago, Musical! The Musical, and Improv Acadia

Charlie Meyerson: In his time at WXRT, the Tribune, WGN Radio, WBEZ, Rivet and more, Charlie’s won or led teams to dozens of journalism awards—including a national Edward R. Murrow Award for online audio investigative reporting and a 2018 Chicago Headline Club Award for best radio newscast. Since 2017, his latest project—the daily email news briefing ChicagoPublicSquare.com—has been named Best Blog in the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago poll and in the Chicago Headline Club’s Peter Lisagor Awards.