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2nd Tuesday of Every Month Mrs. Murphy & Sons Irish Bistro 3905 N Lincoln, Chicago 7:30 PM FREE (Doors open at 6:45) |
This Much Is True is one of the longest running storytelling shows in Chicago, IL. Every month, we come together in the cozy upstairs lounge of one of the city's finest pubs for an evening of true personal stories from some of Chicago's most fascinating people. An all new cast takes the stage each month to let you in on the heartbreaking, the hilarious, and everything in between.
TMIT is intimate. You'll feel like you have joined friends to share life experiences over a few pints.
Past guests have included writers, actors, chefs, theologians, SNL alums, musicians, bloggers, activists, professional storytellers, comedians, and more from our city and around the world.
We hope that you can join us.
TMIT is intimate. You'll feel like you have joined friends to share life experiences over a few pints.
Past guests have included writers, actors, chefs, theologians, SNL alums, musicians, bloggers, activists, professional storytellers, comedians, and more from our city and around the world.
We hope that you can join us.
Our next show takes place on Tuesday, August 8th,
featuring :
featuring :
Rebecca Anderson
Rebecca Anderson has been a farmer and gardener, a docent at a Shaker village, an ox-drover, a nanny, a stand-up comic, and now she's a minister. She's a founding pastor at GileadChicago.org, a new inclusive church in Rogers Park where they tell true stories that save lives. She's told stories with companies and events like 2nd Story, The Moth, Truth or Lies, and co-hosts a Do Not Submit open mic. She's also the founder of EarshotStories.com. When not telling stories or having coffee with strangers (church planting!), Rebecca loves to garden, forage for Juneberries (please ask), and make things on her loom. She'll run outside year-round but won't bike into a headwind.
RJ Eldridge
A graduate of the University of South Florida’s graduate program in Africana Studies, where his studies focused on literature and critical theory, Eldridge has engaged widely on the role of the arts in constructing identity, and seeks to help expand the dimensions of contemporary discussion on the intersections between performance, history, race, ontology and myth. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Vinyl, Apogee Journal, AFROPUNK, Obsidian, the Offing, Puerto Del Sol, Transition, wildness and others. He is a contributing essayist to The Whiskey of our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Georgia A. Popoff. His photography, visual and performance work has been exhibited at the Logan Center, Chicago Art Department, Hyde Park Arts Center, Arts Incubator, Galeria Bianconi and others. He made a national television debut in September 2013 as a performer in the NAACP Image-Award nominated series, Lexus Presents: Verses and Flow, and stars in the short film Akata. His current projects include an ongoing photographic study and documentation of Party Noire, Chicago Reader's #1 dance party, and works in prose and in visual art that inquire about yearning and the Black mind in a shifting moment.
Michael Herzovi
Michael Herzovi started as a student in radio at WBEZ-FM and finished with an MFA in playwriting from SIU in Carbondale. He is currently a featured performer with Small Fish Radio Theatre, including their podcasts for the Chicago Fringe Festival and the Atlanta Fringe Festival. He has been a mentor, writer, and performer with Tellin’ Tales Theatre since 2006, beginning with Six Stories Up in the Ozone. He began writing and performing monologues with the Access Project at Victory Gardens Theater, and started storytelling with Tellin’ Tales Theater in shows like DiverCity and Phobias. In 2016 he helped write and performed their FREEDOM: Out of Order, produced with the Chicago Voices project of the Lyric Opera. In June he shared a new solo piece for DiverCity 2017. As a member of the Artistic Development Workshop of the Access Project at Victory Gardens Theater, he appears in their annual showcase Sketchtopia as a writer and performer, numerous workshops of new plays, and was in the ensemble for the Bodies of Work festival in 2006.
Jesús Manteca
Jesús is a perpetual day-dreaming, middle class socialite who enjoys doodling and telling stories. When he's not on narrating on stage, he dreams about taking up running again, when the time is right. He makes his living as a community manager in advertising... in other words... he tweets for a living.
Marie Ringenberg
Marie is an accomplished storyteller with over 25 years’ experience. Whether funny and frolicking or poignant and pithy, she crafts stories with a directness and simplicity that draws her audience into a sublime and exciting world. She tells stories in song as well as voices folktales, fairy tales, myths, and personal stories. As a professional, Marie performs for libraries, schools, conferences, festivals, and women’s groups. She’s eager to explore personal stories and delighted to be at TMIT!!!
Zoe Stergiannis
Zoe Stergiannis is a semi-recent graduate of DePaul University, where she studied Anthropology and Creative Writing. She has since become a Real Estate Agent's Assistant, an online antique sales warrior, a part-time StoryStudio Chicago class scheduler, a volunteer member of the Discovery Squad at the Field Museum, and a writer whenever she can find a moment to sit down. Currently, she is working on becoming a world explorer who utilizes the creative arts as a way to increase understanding between people and generate positive change in the world, since she is not good enough at math to explore other planets. Zoe also hopes to someday live within one of those capybara hot spring communes in Japan.
