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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.
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, August 14th,
Featuring:
Tuesday, August 14th,
Featuring:
Jacoby Cochran
Hailing from the southside, Jacoby has lived everywhere in the city from Chatam and Englewood, to Chicago Heights and Wicker Park and now Hyde Park. With a Masters in Communication he has hosted dozens of public speaking and story telling workshops across the country and coaches thousands of kids. The guy who couldn't keep his damn mouth shut as a kid is now a performer in the local Chicago scene and is recognized as the only Four-Time Collegiate Top Speaker in the nation. "I pledge my allegiance to the stage, the only place I ever felt free."
Janice Del Negro
Janice Del Negro, PhD, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, teaches Children’s Literature, Storytelling, and Young Adult Literature. She collaborated with Ellin Greene on the classic textbook, Storytelling: Art & Technique. Her newest book, Folktales Aloud: Practical Tips for Playful Storytelling, will be published in Fall, 2013. Del Negro’s books, Lucy Dove (1998), Willa and the Wind (2005), and Passion and Poison (2007), have received starred reviews and notable awards. She conducts workshops on storytelling, book reviewing, writing, reading motivation and was featured at the National Storytelling Festival, the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Illinois Storytelling Festival, the University of Illinois Youth Literature Festival, and many other celebratory events.
Karen Genelly
I have always loved to tell stories. I am a native Chicagoan who grew up on the north side of the city and even though I have traveled a lot I always return home to Chicago. I have spent my professional life as a teacher and a counselor working for the Chicago Public Schools. My time with CPS can be described as the best of times and the worst of times-the best being the kids and the worst being Rahm Emanuel. As much as I loved teaching and being a counselor last year I decided to broaden my horizons and to test my abilities in other areas, such as storytelling, so I retired from CPS. So far it has been a great year learning new things and traveling the world. I've learned there is life outside the public schools and in India that getting on and off a camel can be a tricky business.
Matthew Lipman
Matthew J. Lipman is a Chicago based actor – writer – storyteller and philosopher (with a degree to prove the last one). Life is about gathering stories and its meaning can be found in the sharing of them. He is thrilled to be living in a time where people have the courage to question. That which defines us need not pay the bills.
Marya Morris
Marya Morris is city planner, geography buff, and GPS denier. She was born in Goshen, New York, grew up in Madison and lived in Chicago for 20 plus years. In 2008 she threw it all away by getting married and moving to the North Shore where she lives with husband Andy, their three daughters (each at various points on the launch trajectory), and her mother, Wilma. They have Eloise (a Yorkie), MissyJane (a 3-legged Siamese cat with a shocking backstory), Violet (age 18) and Penny (age 117, judging by her attitude)). Marya is a two-time Moth StorySlam winner, a regular storyteller at Louder than a Mom, and played the role of herself in two films in 2018.
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 trys to keep things simple and focus daily on what is really important. He recently reitred from his real job 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. He published his first novel, Pastaman, in 2017, and is at work on his follow up.