Next show: August 10, 2010
Where: Hopleaf – upstairs
Time: 7:30pm
It’s FREE, buy yourself a beer and enjoy a great night of storytelling
We hate to brag, we really do, but let’s be real, “This Much is True” has an August line-up that might make you go blind if look straight at it.
First of all, we get to welcome back Dorrie Ferguson, after a two month hiatus she’s taken to study for her doctoral program. She’ll be joined by regulars Deanna Moffitt and Scott Whitehair.
In addition to our regulars this month “This Much is True” is packing heat with guests: Jessica McCloud, Jill Summers and Don Hall. That’s a three-punch combination that’s sure to be a knockout.
Here’s a little bit more information on our guests:
Don Hall
Don Hall is the Events Coordinator for Chicago Public Media and the Audience Services cat for NPR’s prolific game show “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” He is also a producer, director, and writer of Chicago Off-Loop Theater; the Founding Director of Chicago’s prolific WNEP Theater, and every now and again, can be seen performing on a Chicago stage or teaching advanced improvisational technique.
Also an angry liberal and a dissatisfied artist. With an incendiary blog.
Jessica McCloud
After toying with unemployment in Chicago for 15 months, losing some creative partnerships, and being the victim of an aggressive hit and run incident on her bicycle, Jessica told 2009 to go “F” itself and has been working to make 2010 the best year yet! This year has been all about getting back to what is most important in Jessica’s life…talking about herself. Seriously though, 2010 has been all about getting back to and recreating that artistic life that Jessica embarked on in 2004, after graduating with a BA in Theater from Columbia College Chicago and starting work with various independent film and stage projects. After appearing on The Story w/Dick Gordon (Mar 23rd airing), Marketplace w/Mitchell Hartman (June 2010), and doing both Rec Room and THE SKALD 11 in May, Jessica couldn’t pass up this wonderful opportunity to read along side some great people here with T.M.I.T. Recently she had the pleasure of Stage Managing the 365 Sketches at Strawdog and is inspired by the demiurgic direction this crazy life seems to be taking her.
Jill Summers
Jill’s work can be heard with increasing infrequency on Chicago Public Radio and has appeared in Stop Smiling, Ninth Letter, VAIN, and MAKE magazines among others. She has received the Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and is a former Opium Magazine Literary Death Match Champion . You can find her online at www.callingallmonkeys.com.