Thanks to everyone who came out on Saturday evening for the Mortified Storyslam at the Free Library Festival.  And thanks especially to the Free Library of Philadelphia for inviting us!  This special-event StorySlam featured a team of storytellers from First Person Arts in Philadelphia and one from the Windy City Story Slam in Chicago.  You can read bios of all of the storytellers here.

By cumulative score, the overall winners were Team Philadelphia composed of Angel Hogan, Katonya Mosley, Ryan T. Barlow, Amy Malissa and Rob Kogan.  Team Chicago was composed of Bill Hillman, Max Glaessner, Nicolette Kittinger, Sam Snow, and Enid Maldonado Ruiz.  Videos of all will be up shortly!

The individual winner–and recipient of a golden ticket to the Grand Slam at the 2009 First Person Festival in November–was Max Glaessner, of Chicago:

And after a tally of the audience votes, the audience favorite was Amy Malissa, who’s already secured her berth in the Grand Slam:

Thanks again to our new friends from Chicago and to everyone who made this StorySlam possible!

Please join us for these upcoming First Person Arts events:

April 28th: StorySlam at L’Etage: “Odd Jobs”
May 5th: FOUND with SOUND! Davy and Peter Rothbart of Found Magazine perform live!
May 13th: First Person Salon at the Laurie Beechman featuring Mark Rudd, Gabrielle Revlock and scenes from a new documentary by Janet Goldwater, Barbara Attie and Shannon Kane-Meddock.

And don’t forget to enter our new competition: First Person America: In These Hard Times.