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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 the longest running monthly storytelling show 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, March 10th
Featuring:
Tuesday, March 10th
Featuring:
Karen Clanton
Karen Clanton is an attorney whose law degree did not stifle the English major lurking within. She has forged a career as a writer in the legal profession, where she has led complex editorial projects in securities law, women’s history and diversity. Karen currently works in a large law firm in the area of Diversity & Inclusion. She is a single mom living on the South Side of Chicago chronicling her adventures through stories told on her back porch (or at the kitchen table when it’s cold outside) that end up being heard on stages across the city.
Julie Ganey
Julie Ganey is a Chicago writer, actor, and teaching artist. Her original solo shows, The Half-Life of Magic, Love Thy Neighbor...till it hurts, and Good Enough, have been produced by 16th Street Theatre, Next Theatre, the side project, Fillet of Solo at Lifeline Theatre, and throughout the Midwest. Her work has been featured on WBEZ, and her story “When the Fairies Came” appears in the 2nd Story anthology, Briefly Knocked Unconscious by a Low-Flying Duck. Julie is particularly proud of her work as an arts educator with students of all ages. (AEA/SAG-AFTRA)
Lauren Keliher
Lauren Kelliher spent the last 15 years realizing the similarities between rescuing dogs and teaching English to high school and college students. She has taken photos of thousands of dogs and is now writing/editing for an educational psychology firm. Lauren got into storytelling in 2017 when she started writing down the crazy adventures from dog rescue. She has told stories at The Moth, First Person Live, and Do Not Submit, and her 40th birthday party featured an open mic for her friends and family to tell stories. Lauren lives in the burbs with her husband of 17 years, their three rescued dogs, and at least one foster dog.
Rich Pniewski
Richard Pniewski is a retired award-winning English and Drama teacher. He also has directed plays for Artcraft Theatre in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood and, more recently, for Evergreen Park's Candlelight Theatre. After years of appreciating the storytelling stage at the annual Fox Valley Folk Festival in Geneva, Illinois, he finally decided to join the storytelling community. He has appeared at the Illinois Storytelling Open Mike, Do Not Submit, Story Lab, Homewood Stories,Inspired! Live Lit and The Back Room. He is the co-host of Do Not Submit in Homewood and is a Moth winner.
Tim Schrieber
Tim Schreiber has been a meat clerk, a pizza driver, a busboy, a library assistant, a columnist, a reporter, a student, a fellow, a teacher, and finally was a reference librarian for 13 years, but he’s given all of that up to stay home with his two young children. Although he has been writing and telling stories all his life, Tim recently caught the bug of formal storytelling in front of a live audience, competing in Moth StorySLAMs and other storytelling events around Chicagoland.
Francesca Sobrer
Francesca Sobrer directed and taught Theatre at Bloomington High School North, in Bloomington Indiana for over 20 years before she put all the apples on her desk in a crate and made her way to Chicago. She presently divides her time between the two cities. An actress, a writer, a semi-retired teacher, and always a mom to her three fabulous, now-grown children (How is it that they are older than her is really a head-scratcher). Francesca is presently working on a collection of stories that will prove that there is a running sit-com about her life in a parallel universe.
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 600+ 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 600+ 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.