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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.

Our next show takes place on
Tuesday, May 8th,
Featuring:

Marvin Sussman (Three month residency, March through May)

Marvin Sussman is a WW II veteran born in Chicago and now living in an Elmhurst retirement community with his wife. They have three sons and four grandchildren. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He worked for the International Harvester and Borg Warner Corporations, mostly as an industrial engineer, a so-called “efficiency expert”, an idea which always caused his wife to laugh. Late in his life, he has been cajoled, threatened, and forced by his grandchildren to write a war memoir.

David Barish

David Barish is a storyteller, lawyer, cyclist, harmonica player, disc golfer and lover of pizza. He represents injured workers and claimants for Social Security Disability. David has told stories at Story Sessions, You're Being Ridiculous, Essay Fiesta, Is this a Thing? Homewood Stories, First Person Live, Story Club, Serving the Sentence, Pour One Out, Thread Reading Series and many others. He has published stories in Story Club Magazine and Stitch. He is the co-host of Do not Submit Evanston.

Emily Hooper Lansana

Emily Hooper Lansana is an arts administrator, educator and performing artist, she is Associate Director of Community Arts Engagement at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. She performs with In the Spirit. She has been featured at the National Storytelling Festival, the National Association of Black Storytellers Festival, and at many venues. She enjoys passing on traditions as a coach and mentor with Ase Youth Group and Rebirth Poetry Ensemble. She received her BA in Theater Studies from Yale University and MA in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.

Tekki Lomniki

Tekki Lomnicki is a solo performer, playwright, director and educator. Born with diastrophic dwarfism, she has devoted her craft to finding ways to incorporate her abilities and those of others to perform compelling stories. In 1995, Tekki co-founded Tellin’ Tales Theatre. The company, dedicated to shattering the barriers between the disabled and non-disabled worlds, produces adult solo performance as well as a life-changing mentoring program and show called Six Stories Up, featuring middle school students and adults with and without disabilities. Tekki performs her critically acclaimed solo work for schools, conferences, and theater audiences all over the U.S. and Canada, and she starred in the award-winning film, The Miracle by Jeffrey Jon Smith. She has taught youth at Chicago’s Gallery 37 and After School Matters, and solo performance for adults at the Victory Gardens Training Center. Tekki developed and runs a solo performance class exclusively for adults with disabilities, which culminates in a show entitled Divercity. Last summer she was Tellin’ Tales Theatre’s Community Lead for the Lyric Opera Community Voices project. She and a troupe of Tellin’ Tales actors created an original musical with Lyric Opera professionals performed at the Harris Theatre on September 24. She is a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship in New Performance Forms, the 2008 3Arts Award in Theater, the 2010 Grigsby Award for Excellence in Solo Performance, and the 2014 Dan Van Hecke Award for outstanding leadership and service to the disability community. She is also Vice President of Little People of America District 6 and serves on the inclusion committee of Old St. Mary’s Church. You can see some of her work at tekkilomnicki.com and tellintales.org.

Laura Scruggs

Laura Scruggs has performed her one woman show, "Punk Grandpa," around the country. She is so excited to now have it performed as a multiple character play (at the FRIGID Festival at NYC and at Three Brothers Theatre) and it has recently been published by Chicago Dramaworks. Laura is also working on a commission from Three Brothers Theatre to write the story of Macbeth from Lady Macbeth's perspective, set in the context of the American government; this script will be performed later this year in Chicago and Waukegan. Laura's short play, "Bossy," about her time as a park drama instructor was recently produced by Unity Players in Chicago. She is also working on a documentary about the late Chicago toy store, Uncle Fun and the man behind it, Ted Frankel. She co-hosts a weekly podcast with her husband in which they interview artists of all kinds, entitled "Are You Famous, Yet?" Laura has taught theatre in a variety of environments, from the Chicago Park District to inner city schools to a Jewish community center. She also enjoys faeries, puppets, festivals, hiking, thrift shopping and social justice!

Brooke Whoolery

Originally from the mountains of Pennsylvania but a Chicago resident of 8 years, Brooke is a muddled blend of cultured and country. Brooke enjoys singing in her soul and funk band The Mashed Potatoes, cooking, working out, shopping, and traveling. She describes herself as an Oxford Dictionary in the streets and Urban Dictionary in the sheets.