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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, October 8th
Featuring:
Tuesday, October 8th
Featuring:
Rita Balzotti
Rita Balzotti continues to suffer from a low-grade, existential crisis…since birth. In an attempt to figure out how to be here, on this planet, she’s re-invented herself many times over personally and professionally. Her first career was opera-singing, and she’s happy that in this current version of herself, she’s back on stage, telling stories all over Chicago. Her hope is that in exposing her own crap, she just might be able to help someone else heal from theirs.
Kelly Campos
It was a time of unprecedented despair. Climate change, political unrest, and people posting without verifying a news source was wreaking havoc on the region. Enter: Kelly Campos. Mild mannered children’s librarian by day; musician, performer, and lover of all things cheesy by night. Relying on her checkered past (Second City Detroit Mainstage performer, rock singer/songwriter, 6th grade ballerina, and former Kinko’s Copy Specialist) Kelly is now committed to bringing her best to the stage and saving the world one story at a time.
Jake Cowan
Jake Cowan is a founder and producer of Is this a thing? - a monthly storytelling show that takes place the second Monday of the month at O'Shaughnessy's at Ravenswood and Wilson. He is living the dream – he works for himself, he travels a lot, and when not traveling he calls Chicago – the greatest city in the world – his home.
Sean Ewert
Sean Ewert is an actor and storyteller. Prior to moving back to his hometown, Los Angeles - Sean performed his stories in Chicago at storytelling shows such as This Much Is True, Story Lab, Truth or Lie, Reading Under The Influence, Flick Lit, Bike Winter Art Show, and was an audience favorite in Story Club Magazine. Currently located in Los Angeles, Sean has told stories at Story Salon and Off My Head Storytelling. Sean is an avid traveler with travels to the wilds of Iceland , graveyards in France, Basque Country in Spain and the sacred hills around Budapest. A native Southern Californian, Sean enjoys telling cinematic stories from the many cities he has lived in. Love to John and mutt extraordinaire, Pilot.
Philip Earl Johnson
Philip Earl Johnson is a native of northern Illinois and still lives there with his family when not traveling doing comedy shows. He has spent the last 30 years performing his one man comedy show MooNiE the Magnif’Cent: Juggler. Ropewalker. Foolish Mortal! at Renaissance festivals, theaters, fringe festivals, and private events. He is also an actor and has appeared at many theaters in Chicago, most recently at The Goodman Theatre in The Winters Tale playing Autolycus the clownish troubadour rogue. He performed his one man story show at American Blues Theatre in September, as well as The Northlake Theatre, The ShamC Art Center in Safety Harbor, FL and The Illinois Shakespeare Festival.
Jessy Lauren Smith
Jessy Lauren Smith is a Chicago-based writer on her way to LA. She has been an artist-in-residence at Ragdale and Blast Theory, and has told stories with 2nd Story, Story Lab, That Maxwell Bitch, Super Tasty, and giftLIT. She also is a founding member of Living Room Playmakers, a playwright-driven collective that writes plays for unusual spaces and throws great parties. She holds an MFA from Northwestern, in the palm of her hand, for an hour each day. You can find her at jessylaurensmith.com and on Twitter as @fareforward.
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.