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Monthly Show 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 dedicated to bringing the members of our community together in a welcoming environment where we can share with each other, listen to each other, and learn from each other. Once a month, we gather to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual while simultaneously tapping into the universality of the human experience.
Our core group of storytellers is joined each month by special guests from every corner of Chicago's creative community. The stories are often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always true.
Please join us for an evening of memorable tales and delicious craft beer in the intimate upstairs lounge of one of Chicago's finest Irish taverns. We look forward to meeting you or seeing you once again.
Our core group of storytellers is joined each month by special guests from every corner of Chicago's creative community. The stories are often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always true.
Please join us for an evening of memorable tales and delicious craft beer in the intimate upstairs lounge of one of Chicago's finest Irish taverns. We look forward to meeting you or seeing you once again.
Our Next Show is on Tuesday, July 8th, With Regulars:
Scott Whitehair
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Stephanie Douglass
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And Featuring These Special Guests:
Khanisha Foster
Khanisha Foster is a mixed race actress, writer, teaching
artist, the Associate Artistic Director
of 2nd Story and an ensemble member
of Teatro Vista. She was a featured
storyteller on NPR’s The Dinner Party,
chosen for the Theatre Communication
Group’s Young Leaders of Color 2009 and an artist exchange with the Citizen’s Theatre of Scotland in
Glasgow. She is a Sarah Siddon’s Society
Scholarship recipient and a two time finalist for the PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship. Her teaching artist work was
honored by the White House. Her
writing has been published with CellStories
and podcast through 2nd Story, and
published in the anthology Briefly
Knocked Unconscious By a Low Flying Duck. She has performed with Teatro Vista, the Goodman Theatre, Steep
Theater, and Collaboraction,
among others. She can be seen in the film Chicago
Boricua, official selection the Tribeca
Film Festival, the Chicago Latino
Film Festivals, and closing night selection for the New York Latino International Film Festival. She is the Live Events
Producer for the Mixed Remixed Festival. Currently Khanisha is working on her
memoir Heroin(e), several screenplays, and raising two daughters nine years
apart. She enjoys a challenge.
Art Johnston
Art Johnston came to Chicago for one year in 1972 for graduate school and never left. He and his soon-to-be husband, Jose Pena, met in 1973 at a gay bar, in between the then rampant police raids. Art has had many lives: high school teacher and coach, director/manager of a theatre company, gay activist, and co-owner with Jose, of Sidetrack, a gay nightclub on Halsted. He has recently discovered the pleasures of listening to stories and looks forward to telling some of his own. He hopes to soon launch a monthly evening of storytelling at Sidetrack.
Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins, Days of Awe and three other books of fiction. Her poetry chapbook, This is What Happened in Our Other Life was both a critical favorite and a best-seller. Her translation, into Spanish, of Junot Díaz’ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Óscar Wao was a finalist for Spain’s Esther Benítez Translation Prize from the national translator’s association. She is member of the Editorial Board and a columnist for In These Times, and on the editorial advisory board of the Great Books Foundation. Her most recent book is Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Stories, co-edited with Megan Bayles and published by the Great Books Foundation. Born in Havana, she is currently the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland.
Karen O'Donnell
Karen O’Donnell, D.D.S. says she is blessed to tell stories to captive audiences of helplessly mute while her hands are busy doing dentistry. Karen has studied improvisational theatre at Comedy Sportz, has trained with Tony Robbins, and other leaders in the personal development field. She has told stories at Story Lab, Trace Chicago, Stoop Style Stories, Write Now, Chicago Solo Theater and in Flossmoor at the St. John’s 4th of July Ice Cream Social. Karen is also a 'Certified Story Coach'. Passionate about storytelling, she launched HOMEWOOD STORIES to 'bring it back home' to Homewood,,,, to share with and tap into the talent in the south suburbs, northwest Indiana and beyond. — — in Homewood, IL.
Mike Maimone (Musical Guest)
"Out singer/songwriter Mike Maimone sounds like the long lost son of
Tom Waits," according to Greg Shapiro of Chicago Pride Magazine. Leading the ragtime-rock trio Mutts,
the former auditor is one of Chicago’s most prolific front men and
session musicians. Since 2008 Maimone has written and released 4 albums
and 4 EPs on his own label, and contributed to over two dozen releases
from other Midwest artists. Originally from Ashtabula, OH, Maimone attended the University of Notre Dame. Graduating with a business degree in 2004, he took an auditing position at KPMG in Cleveland and moonlighted as a session keyboardist and songwriter. Less than a year later he nearly collided with a semi on an icy stretch of I-90 coming home late from work. At that point he decided to dive into music entirely, quit his job, and moved around the country for the next few years joining bands and taking session work.
The most recent LP from Mutts, Object Permanence, is their third consecutive independent release to chart on the CMJ Top 200 for radio airplay among other distinctions. In 2014 Mutts have already written and recorded their 4th LP while playing over 30 shows. This promising start to the year follows a 2013 in which Mutts supported their new LP with over 150 tour dates, plus appearances on Daytrotter, National TV, WBEZ and and WXRT. They also performed at several festivals, and opened for national acts including Murder By Death, Maps & Atlases, Imagine Dragons and Company of Thieves. In 2008 Maimone released his first solo LP entitled Open Mic Nights, Empty Bottle Mornings. The album received many favorable reviews, and the track Prizefighter won Honorable Mention in the Billboard Songwriting competition.
