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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. (Since 2008). 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 will take place on
Tuesday, February 12th
Featuring:
Tuesday, February 12th
Featuring:
Mimi Black
Twenty-year Chicagoland resident Mimi Black is an actor whose voice has been heard on untold hundreds of radio, television and online advertisements. From McDonald’s, Toyota and Coca-Cola all the way down to our own Peggy Notebaert Museum, Mimi’s voice has floated on the airwaves for over a quarter century. She apologizes for her complicity in some of those annoying on-hold telephone messages. Unusual in the voiceover industry, Mimi also holds a doctoral degree in Psychology and has published articles on memory and children’s gender stereotyping. Her children's book manuscript on bullying prevention is under publisher review. Wherever her work takes her, Mimi draws on storytelling for its uniquely persuasive power.
Lizzy Bortato
Lizzy Bortoto is a union organizer and storyteller living in Chicago. She’s committed to telling at least one story a month in 2019, and is even starting a story circle with Gilead Chicago. When she isn’t storytelling or union organizing, you can often find her planning for her monthly (and elaborately-themed) dinner party.
Elizabeth Cambridge
Elizabeth is an avid daydreamer, storyteller, producer, and host from Chicago, IL. She’s hosted and told stories all around including The Moth, The Stoop, This Much is True and just recently the SPEAK series in Jamaica. Her podcast Random Conversations with Elizabeth is currently available on I-tunes and Soundcloud.
Jonathan Eiuseppi
Jonathan Euseppi is a stand-up comedian, storyteller, and improviser who performs his personal form of comedy all over Chicago. He has been seen at the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival as well as the long running showcase, Chicago Underground Comedy. He most recently completed a successful run of his one man show "Grief is Horny" at the iO Theater. You can regularly catch him improvising with the iO harold team, Big Tobacco.
Louis Greenwald
Louis Greenwald, storytelling addict. Louis was dragged to his first storytelling festival 25 years ago by his wife Susie who was a sixth grade teacher. He has promoted storytelling venues and now steals techniques from the best tellers.
Susan O'Halloran
Seen on PBS, Nightline and in the New York Times, The Chicago Reader says Sue O’Halloran “has mastered the Irish art of telling stories that are funny and heart-wrenching at the same time.” Susan has several times been a featured teller at the National Storytelling Festival and the International Storytelling Center Residencies and as a National Storytelling Network and Smithsonian Institute keynote speaker. For the last twenty years, this author, keynote speaker and corporate diversity consultant has been producer of multicultural events featuring stories to build racial and ethnic bridges. Sue also produced the first ever social justice online storytelling festival which reached over 112,000 people in 52 different countries. www.SusanOHalloran.com and www.RacebridgesStudio.com
Scott Whitehair
Host/producer of This Much Is True
Scott Whitehair is a storyteller, teacher, and producer living in Chicago, IL. He is the producer of This Much Is True, creator of Story Lab Chicago, which has put 500+ new storytellers on stage since 2011, and director of Do Not Submit, a grassroots network of open mics across the city bringing people together to connect with each other. Scott tells anywhere someone will listen, including The National Storytelling Festival Exchange Place, Steppenwolf Theater, the historic Green Mill, and on NPR, the Risk podcast, and Siruis XM. He is a frequent guest instructor at the city's top universities, and his personal narrative class has been selling out every month since 2012. Scott is in demand as a coach and trainer, spending his days helping individuals, companies, and non-profits develop their voices as storytellers. In 2014, he was the featured instructor at Hong Kong Story Worthy Week, headlined by David Sedaris, and in 2015 taught an intensive at All Hallows College in Dublin.
Scott Whitehair is a storyteller, teacher, and producer living in Chicago, IL. He is the producer of This Much Is True, creator of Story Lab Chicago, which has put 500+ new storytellers on stage since 2011, and director of Do Not Submit, a grassroots network of open mics across the city bringing people together to connect with each other. Scott tells anywhere someone will listen, including The National Storytelling Festival Exchange Place, Steppenwolf Theater, the historic Green Mill, and on NPR, the Risk podcast, and Siruis XM. He is a frequent guest instructor at the city's top universities, and his personal narrative class has been selling out every month since 2012. Scott is in demand as a coach and trainer, spending his days helping individuals, companies, and non-profits develop their voices as storytellers. In 2014, he was the featured instructor at Hong Kong Story Worthy Week, headlined by David Sedaris, and in 2015 taught an intensive at All Hallows College in Dublin.