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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 6:00) |
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, June 12th,
Featuring:
Tuesday, June 12th,
Featuring:
Rives Collins (Guest Host)
Rives Collins is a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University, where he has taught in the Department of Theatre for the past thirty years. A specialist in the areas of Storytelling, Theatre for Young Audiences, and Drama in Education, he is the recipient of the Clarence Simon Award for Outstanding Faculty Member and the Galbut Award for Outstanding Mentor. In 2016, he was invited by the New Visions/New Voices program of the Kennedy Center to direct a staged reading of Ever in the Glades by playwright Laura Schellhardt; a production that will return to the Kennedy Center in the spring of 2018. Also that year, he delivered the keynote address at the National Storytelling Conference, celebrating the role of storytelling in the 21st century. He is looking forward to reprising the presentation at The Cradle of Creativity conference in Cape Town, South Africa in May of 2017. In addition, he is an Associate Artist at Adventure Stage Chicago where he has recently directed two world-premiere plays. A lover of stories since he could talk, he is featured regularly as a professional storyteller and keynote speaker at festivals, schools, libraries, businesses, and museums, proclaiming that, “Storytelling is at the heart of everything I do.” He is the co-author with Pamela Cooper of The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling. As an active member and past president of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, and as a current board member of the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America, he works with an international community of artists, educators, and scholars to champion the cause of drama and theatre in the lives of young people.
Jill Howe (Guest Host)
Jill Howe organizes and teaches writing retreats and has presented a Tedx Talk on vulnerability. As one of the resident storytellers at The Field Museum, she also enjoys making stories out of dinosaur bones.
Ada Cheng
Ada Cheng is a professor-turned storyteller and performing artist. She debuted her second solo show, Breaking Rules, Broken Hearts: Loving across Borders, with Fillet of Solo Storytelling Festival at Lifeline Theatre in January this year. Ada is the producer and host of the show Am I Man Enough?: A Storytelling/Podcasting Show, where people tell personal stories to critically examine the culture of toxic masculinity and the construction of masculinity and manhood. Her motto: Make your life the best story you tell. She is also the co-producer and co-host of Talk Stories: An Asian American/Asian Diaspora Storytelling Show, which showcases Asian/Asian American performers. Please check out her website: www.renegadeadacheng.com
Eileen Dougherty
Eileen Dougharty isn’t handing out drinks, snacks, and snark to the flying public, she’s trolling Chicago in search of adventure. Eileen has performed with Story Sessions, You're Being Ridiculous, and 2nd Story and she has contributed her writing to Reader’s Digest, WBEZ's "Pleasuretown" podcast, and Consequence of Sound. She was also part of a recent TEDx talk about the power of storytelling and she’s thrilled to be part of This Much Is True.
Joe Jekot
Joe Jekot has been fully engaged in the craft of learning all that is human in the lives of young people and adults. In his vocation as a high school teacher he has found that a well placed and well told tale takes all engaged on a quest for meaning and release. He started his thirty year career teaching religion and proved to his students that their relationship or story with God is really one “whopper” of a tale. And that somewhere out of the saga grows the art and joy of living a human life. Whether a fool’s tale, a myth, or a personal family legend, stories are the "stuff" or the raw materials from which we create and live out our dreams. Joe has experience the pleasure of performing to all types of groups over the years including: Retirement Communities, Schools, Clubs, Churches, and Festivals.
Lee Melchior
Lee Melchior is new to storytelling, but she has been listening to stories all her life: first to the stories of the Mississippi River Valley, then as a peace activist living in Canada, an inn keeper on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba then back to the states as a communication consultant in New York and Chicago. Lee just graduated from a career as an executive coach working with clients from the UK to Dubai to China. She is now opening her Third Act. So far she has consulted on story creation, joined in on a podcast and told stories at This Much is True, Truth or Lie Reading Series, The Back Room, Story Lab, The Moth, and Do Not Submits (from Evanston to Homewood). She has welcomed new tellers to the mobile storytelling stage, Sydney, in Lincoln Square and hosts a story rug at Evanston Farmers’ Market.
Jeremy Schaefer
Jeremy Schaefer tours original storytelling assemblies to Chicagoland schools through Urban Gateways. He hosts and co-produces The Sidesplitter, an evening of funny people telling funny stories at Laugh Out Loud Theater. His solo shows have appeared at theaters and fringe festivals throughout the midwest. As a playwright, Jeremy has created dozens of interactive performance for Imagination Theater where he serves as Artistic Director. His most recent play, Games Dad Didn’t Play, toured Saint Louis schools with Metro Theater Company. He just wrapped up performances of the original solo show, Tully’s Monster, at The Field Museum and is currently developing an original adaptation of Aesop’s Fables with The Magik Theatre in San Antonio. He is grateful to be back at This Much Is True!
