Kent Whipple

Kent is the founder of the storytelling program at the Unexpected Productions Improv School, where teaches intro and advanced classes and is the narrative coach for the improv ensemble, and hosts Inside Story, a storytelling show. He has participated in many Moth StorySLAMs (and won the first Moth StorySLAM he attended) and Moth GrandSLAMs. He has been featured on the Risk! podcast three times. By audience vote, he was named Best of Bawdy Storyteller for 2019. He is a story coach for Ignite Seattle, A gathering of interesting people presenting interesting ideas quickly – Each person gets 20 slides, at 15 seconds each, to share a passion for 5 minutes. In the Winter of 2022, he will be featured on the PBS show, Stories from the Stage, which illustrates the power of real stories told by masterful storytellers and is produced by WORLD Channel in collaboration with GBH and in partnership with Tell&Act. Throughout the PNW, he has performed at Fresh Ground Stories, the Intersections Festival, Bawdy Storytelling, Bad Date Storytelling, Over the Rainbow Storytelling, and Do Tell: Humorous Storytelling.