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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 will take place on
Tuesday, November 13th
Featuring:
Tuesday, November 13th
Featuring:
Angalia Bianca (with Linda Beckstrom)
Angalia “Bianca” was raised in Oak Park, Illinois by her father and paternal grandmother. She began using drugs at 9 years old, dropped out of high school, started abusing heroin at the age of 17, and went on to struggle with addiction for 36 years. At 19, she joined a Chicago Latino gang and eventually became a career criminal ultimately serving more than 12 years in a state prison.She lived in the CHA housing projects on the west side of Chicago for over 25 years where the onslaught of violence meant that bullets would ricochet past her head daily. She was released from prison on August 9, 2011 and began working for CeaseFire in December of 2011. Her personal experience has pushed her to relentlessly help youth and young adults, who are involved in high risk street activity, to make better choices to save their lives. Bianca started out working as a violence interrupter/outreach worker was promoted to Supervisor and in October of 2013, she began working at the CeaseFire/Cure Violence headquarters at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Today Bianca is a successful sober productive law abiding citizen, has reunited with her family and has dedicated her life to violence prevention and helping others. She travels internationally to deliver presentations on incarceration, gangs, violence prevention, substance abuse and social change at universities, high schools, Rotary Clubs, state prisons and national conventions. In 2012, Bianca was an invited guest at the inauguration of President Obama when she was featured in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. She has also been featured in The Chicago Tribune, Redeye Chicag, WCIU TV, CNN Anderson Cooper 360, She is currently completing her bachelor’s degree in Inner City Studies at Northeastern Illinois University Chicago, IL. Bianca’s memoir, co-authored by Linda Beckstrom – IN DEEP: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin and Prison To Become A Chicago Violence Interrupter – published by Chicago Review Press, was released on October 1, 2018.
Patrick Curtin
Patrick Curtin is a Chicago native that incorporates storytelling as a celebrant for weddings, memorials and other moments in life that should be celebrated. Patrick has shared stories at the Irish American Heritage Center, Steppenwolf, Second City, Story Lab, and the Goodman Theater.
LeVan D. Hawkins
LeVan D. Hawkins is a Chicago-based writer, poet, & performance artist formerly of Los Angeles. In Chicago, he has appeared at RhinoFest, Links Hall, Alt Q Festival at the Old Town School of Folk Music, the Homolatte Reading Series, Robbins Public Library and the Gerber-Hart Library . He has traveled across the country reading and performing and has appeared in the New York International Fringe Festival, Minneapolis Central Library, and the National Black Theater Festival. In LA, he has performed at venues such as the UCLA Hammer Museum, Redcat Theater at Disney Hall, and Highways Performance Space. He uses his experience in theater and spoken-word to turn standard literary readings into engaging demonstrations of the storyteller's art.
Kris Light
Kris came to Illinois in 2011 after years of parenting four kids and leading congregations. Serving previously from Kentucky to Michigan, Pennsylvania to Georgia, she now pastors in Urbana-Champaign. She lives in Gibson City where she raises chickens and keeps a big, weedy garden. She fills the rest of her time working with community groups to promote social justice and with her congregation to tell true and compelling stories. Kris is thankful for the gift of candor which can break open hardened ground and lead to better things growing in the body politic.
Amy Nadal
Amy Nadal is an actor, theatre educator, and storyteller based in Chicago. All of her work, both onstage and in the classroom, is motivated by a belief in the power of empathy and its capacity to change the world. Amy graduated from Northwestern University this past spring with a BA in Theatre and a module in Theatre for Young Audiences. While in school, she had the opportunity to learn the art of storytelling from the wonderful Rives Collins, a true storytelling extraordinaire, and performed twice at the Annual Evanston Public Library Storytelling Festival. She is excited to continue telling stories as she delves into this next adventure of post-grad life…or just simply, LIFE. For more information: www.amynadal.com
Jack Zimmerman
Chicago writer, storyteller, and urban photographer Jack Zimmerman was a fleet sailor during the Vietnam War, a trombonist on WGN’s Bozo Circus Band, and a PR man for both Ravinia and Lyric Opera. Now retired, he spends his days reading Zane Grey novels and watching “Rifleman” reruns. .
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.