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2nd Tuesday of Every Month (Dates subject to change with virtual programming. Please see below!) 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.
TMIT continues on(line)!
TUESDAY, MAY 11TH
@ 7:00 PM CENTRAL
Our performance will take place on Zoom, and is free to attend, simply visit the link and fill out the simple form to receive log in information and further details. CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR "SEAT!"
May Cast
Silvana Clark
The author of 12 books, Silvana also appeared on the FOX reality show, Trading Spouses. As a corporate trainer, she’s told stories for the last 25 years. Silvana is proud to have trained her Springer Spaniel to star in commercials and print ads. As soon as travel restrictions lift, she’ll join her husband in housesitting unique homes around the world.
Tara Lake
Tara Lake is a soprano, storyteller, playwright, actress and scholar-artist. Her award-winning solo play, "I Know It Was The Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman," premiered at the Chicago Fringe Festival and won the Artists' Choice Award there before snagging a Rochester Fringe Festival 2018 "Best Bet" title and a “...Not to Miss" nod at the 2018 Charm City Fringe Festival. The production has toured to Washington D.C., London UK, Baltimore and New York City and hits the road again this summer after a year in quarantine. As a storyteller, Tara has appeared on numerous stages and was featured in a FIAT Cars USA advertising series. She has performed her original literary concerts featuring African American spirituals and art songs at a number of cultural institutions. Tara has been awarded grants and fellowships from organizations including the James and Sylvia Thayer Foundation, the UCLA Institute of American Cultures, the Puffin Foundation, and the Ella Fountain Pratt endowment. For more about Tara, please visit: www.TaraLake.com.
Carl Weintraub
Carl Weintraub began his professional acting career at THE OLD GLOBE THEATRE in San Diego in 1974. A graduate of U.C.L.A., Carl studied acting with the venerable Lou Palter and has performed on countless stages in Los Angeles. He starred in a few television series back in the 80s and still works on stage, TV, and the occasional movie. Carl was the first recipient of the Los Angeles PASA Award for life achievement in professional artistry in schools and was the first actual artist ever to receive the Los Angeles Music Center’s Bravo Award for achievement in arts education. All this because he founded WE TELL STORIES, a story-type theatre company that has been performing across America since 1981. Carl also co-produces and curates BackStory, a bi-monthly storytelling series at the Victory Theatre in Burbank (now on Zoom). In parallel lives Carl has been a probation officer and a social worker, a mushroom farmer and a mason. He's taught school, cleaned latrines, played guitar and sung the blues in bars for money. He’s been married 4 times, has 4 kids and 5 grand-kids. He's broken his back three times and his nose five. You can bet he has some tales to tell.
Joel Ying
Dr. Joel Ying is a Physician-Educator-Storyteller. With eclectic folk tales and unique personal stories, his storytelling range, like his practice of medicine, bridges the traditional and the modern. Storytelling is not just a performance art, but a healing art. He performs regularly, teaches workshops, produces events, and loves listening to a good story! JoelYing.com
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 700+ 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 700+ 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.