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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 6:45) |
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, September 12th,
featuring :
featuring :
JW Basilo
J.W. Basilo is a guy who never learned how to shut up. As a writer, musician, performer, and director, his work lives at the intersection of the poignant and perverse, the hilarious and heartbreaking. His stage act, an almost Vaudevillian mash-up of music, poetry, comedy and storytelling, has earned him a reputation as one of the more sought-after performing artists working in Chicago, where is he is a regular contributor to shows like Paper Machete, The Blackout Diaries, This Much is True, and Write Club. Basilo is a National and Individual World Poetry Slam finalist, Pushcart Prize nominee, former Artistic Director and founder of Chicago Slam Works Ensemble Theatre, and a company member with Red Theater Chicago. His work has appeared in local and national TV and radio, in numerous literary journals, and in hundreds of theaters, dive bars, prisons, and comedy clubs across the world. In 2015 Basilo was named to Newcity’s LIT 50, a yearly list of Chicago’s most notable literary figures. All things considered, he’s doing pretty well for a guy who failed Creative Writing in high school
Nancy Brown
Nancy Brown is a social worker, proud mom and grandmother. She works as an inclusion consultant on behalf of individuals with disabilities. Her greatest teacher is her daughter Bridget who has Down syndrome. Nancy and Bridget work together to help the world become a little more inclusive and welcoming to people of all abilities. Nancy loves storytelling especially around a campfire !! She oversees a free summer camp for children with limited resources and loves to experience awe and wonder in the outdoors.
Rives Collins
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.
Jeanie Michelle
Jeanie Michelle was raised in Chicago the last of seven children and by far her mother's best work. She defines herself as an artist although her degree is in Radiology Technology.. go figure. Her passions include creative writing, reading, painting, drawing, dressmaking, jewelry making, leather working, and last but certainly not least bringing joy to others thru laughter. Her grandfather and the apple of her eye was a story teller. He was the best. He has since past but his spirit lives on thru Jeanie. It was called telling lies back then. We've come a long way baby.
Molly Powers
Molly Powers is a “mature” transwoman and a recovering lawyer. Not ready to retire she has turned her energy to performing arts as a singer and aspiring story teller not to mention spending time with her adult kids and grandchildren (who still call her Grandpa and that is okay). She has done one woman cabaret performances and is currently studying Italian art songs in addition to coaching boys high school lacrosse for Whitney Young High School. She has performed with Artists Giving Back and is joining their Board of Advisors in the fall. Molly currently focuses her stories on her journey of discovery and transition. Hopefully she will get that out of her system and find some new topics worthy of a good tale. She feels that This Much Is True is like getting a promotion from the Arizona Instructional League to at least Double A ball. She hopes her stories inform, inspire, but most of all entertain.
Paul Teodo
Paul Teodo is the second ever Chicago Moth Grand Slam champion. He has 2 great sons and a love for writing,theatre, storytelling,music, movies, and hanging out with family, "family" being whoever is willing to hang out with and eat with. He was raised in an Italian family on the south side of Chicago that could not hang together unless there was lots of food and lots of stories. One of his favorite sayings in life is this: "The sign of a truly rich man is not he who has the most, but rather he who needs the least" He tries to keep things simple and focus daily on what is really important. His real job was serving as the Chief Operating Officer of an inner city hospital on the south side of Chicago. The hospital is run by a group of caring and committed nuns from Lithuania. Paul recently published his debut novel, Pasta Man.
