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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. (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, September 10th
Featuring:
Tuesday, September 10th
Featuring:
Jill Hopkins
Jill Hopkins is the host of The Morning AMp on Vocalo Radio, 91.1FM. She's a regular performer of comedic essays at The Paper Machete, a stand-up comedian, and a pop culture writer for The Onion's A.V. Club, with additional bylines on Consequence of Sound, the Riot Fest Blog, and Noisey. She's also been behind the decks as a DJ at clubs, and has opened for Big Freedia, Har Mar Superstar, Shabazz Palaces, and Michael Shannon. Jill is the singer for the party band TAURGOS, and is a proud daughter to Kim and wife to Aaron. She might be the busiest child-free person she knows. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter @jillhopkins for social commentary, dad jokes, and pictures of her dog Ollie, who she is probably thinking about right now.
Beth Horner
A National Storytelling Network Circle of Excellence Oracle Award recipient, Beth Horner is a 34-year nationally touring spoken word artist. Sought after as both a storytelling performance and teaching artist, Beth has performed multiple times at the National Storytelling Festival, for NASA, on Live From National Geographic, for the International Art of Storytelling Festival, the Starlight Educational Foundation of Taiwan and most recently, for Lyrics & Lore: A Weekend with Songwriters & Storytellers at Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort (co-sponsored by the International Storytelling Center). She is a former Board Member of the National Storytelling Association, conducted a series of workshops for NASA Engineers and Astrobiologists in California and Washington, D.C., and served as narrative consultant for NASA/Johnson Space Center’s Story Mining project for which she collected the stories of the scientists behind the Apollo Space Missions.
Aviva Levavi
Aviva Levavi is an English as a Second Language teacher. Her adult students have enriched her life by telling their stories from around the world. Her other great inspiration is her dog who sees the world without borders and sometimes gets in a lot of trouble, like the time she followed a duck into a frozen pond. Aviva is a world traveler, including spending 2 years in West Africa in the Peace Corps and riding her bicycle across the United States. She is a graduate of the Scott Whitehair school of storytelling. She loves, writing short stories, cooking for her family, gardening, and finding the next great story whether at the end of the block or around the world.
Drew Love
Drew Love is the co-founder of Yost & Rios Enterprises, Inc. and publisher of Golf+Life+Business the digital golf and business lifestyle publication. He is currently working with social enterprise partners The Chi Chi Rodriguez Academy and Midwest Association of Golf Course Superintendents. He previously worked with Mark W. Travis on Life Stories. Mark Travis is regarded by many in Hollywood to be one of the world’s leading authorities in the art and craft of film directing. He previously worked with Julie Hudash, the Founder and CEO of Team Kids, which is an Orange County, CA based nonprofit that runs school-based community service learning programs. He was also mentored by Candace Silvers of Candace Silvers Studios.
Fred Rubin
Fred Rubin, graduated from the University of Illinois in 1972 with a BFA in directing and playwriting. He spent the next three years in Chicago working full time as a social worker and part time as a columnist, stand-up comedian, and jingle writer. He moved to Los Angeles in 1976 and began working full-time in network television. Since 1977 he has served as a writer on fifteen network series and has been producer of such shows as, “Different Strokes”, “Archie Bunker’s Place”, “Mama’s Family”, “Webster”, “Night Court”, “Family Matters”, “Step by Step”, and “Two of A Kind”. His career includes writing sixty episodes of prime time television, ten pilots, and two made-for-television movies. He retired from TV in 2000. For fifteen years following, Fred taught television writing and screen writing for the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Theatre, and in 2015 retired as a full time lecturer. He is currently an ongoing instructor for the Warner Brothers Writer’s Workshop and has been for thirty years. In recent years he has performed dozens of times in prominent LA venues doing storytelling, poetry, and folk singing. Fred lives in LA with his wife Marley Sims, writer and award-winning producer of “Home Improvement”. His daughter, Naomi, is an artist, web designer, coder, comic book artist/author, and a fixer/translator for film and TV companies shooting in Tokyo.
Karen Stein
Karen Stein (kindly, gently) criticizes grammar and style in the daylight hours, then tells stories once the sun goes down. She is the founder and creative director of Here:Say Storytelling in Traverse City, Michigan, but tries to dip into the Chicago area (where she grew up) as much as possible to take in or tell stories. Karen has produced shows on behalf of Northern Michigan organizations such as Interlochen Public Radio, the Dennos Museum, Safe Harbor Emergency Shelter, Traverse Bay Children's Advocacy Center, Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities, and Up North Pride.
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.