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2nd Thursday of Every Month Mrs. Murphy & Sons Irish Bistro 3905 N Lincoln Ave., Chicago 7:30 PM (Doors at 7:00) FREE |
This Much Is True is the longest running monthly storytelling show in Chicago, IL. (Since 2008). Every month, we come together 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.
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.
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.
June 11th Cast
Zach BiancoSmith
Zach BiancoSmith is an onboarding trainer and operations facilitator for an industrial supply company. He's also an improviser that performs with Murder Candy at Westside Improv in Wheaton. In his spare time, he builds backpacks in his basement. Above all, Zach is a proud father of three and a husband that tries hard.
Jasmine Eisner
Jasmine Eisner has been a passionate storyteller from the moment she could form sentences. Camping under the stars she would make up stories using her own constellations. Her parents were both teachers and storytellers and cultivated those talents within her from a young age. She has lived in five states and spent time living abroad, collecting stories everywhere she’s gone. Jasmine currently is a 5th grade math and science teacher. She is an avid reader and writer. In February she wrote her first play and now is currently writing a sci fi novel. Although she writes fiction she loves being able to share her own personal stories through oral storytelling.
Lisa Parr
After teaching studio art and art history in high school and colleges, Lisa Parr opened and still runs her business internationally restoring Historic Landmark antique carousels, speaking and writing articles on them and her specialty of original paint. Additional application of her skills is for legal work, court verifying and identifying carousel figures for insurance, damage, and theft for private collectors, as well as appraisals for museums, art dealers, and auctions. In connection with carousel art, Lisa pursues research in early Celtic design and mythology on site in the upper isles of Scotland. Many early Celtic and pre-Christian designs are reproduced on carousels and carousel animals. Her interest in ancient and contemporary mythology has led her to research mountain storytelling, initiating more travel and recent storytelling, herself. Lisa has been telling Highland Park, Lake Forest, and several venues in Chicago. For fun, Lisa also restores antique wood toys and sports cars, which she drives with vigor and nostalgia.
Dhamana Shauri
Dhamana Shauri likes to craft stories that entertain, uplift, and educate. Her goal is to explore the human condition and create images that allow the listener to “see” as well as hear her story. Her career as a teacher has provided her with a world of lively information from which to draw.
Madhu Shukla
Madhu Shukla is a theatre based facilitator and storytelling practitioner from Bangalore, South of India. Born to multicultural parents and raised in a culture very diverse from her family of origin - she has always tango-ed and tangled with themes of identity, home and belonging. A social artist, daughter, wife, cat mom, trainer, counsellor, teacher, entrepreneur, healer- in all of the many roles she inhabits - what she values most right now is riding the tidal polarities of life with gratitude and making space for healing nurturance. Currently, she is based out of Chicago- exploring life, living and being in a new city on a new continent. She savours the famous Chicago winter by tucking into a warm bowl of ramen and staring endlessly into the vast still blues of Lake Michigan.
Tim Schreiber
For Tim's first mid-life crisis, he got married and had kids. After studying English, Journalism, German, Linguistics, Education, and Library Science, he was a professional librarian for 13 years until he gave all of that up to stay home with his two young children. In addition to hearing and telling stories, his hobbies include playing tennis, reading long history books, and creating spreadsheets for his solar panels. You know, middle-aged dad stuff. Tim discovered storytelling in front of a live audience in 2018, when he finished in second place at two StorySlam shows in a row, caught the storytelling bug, and got involved in other storytelling events around Chicagoland.
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 950+ 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. He is a 2024 Meier Achievement Award winner.
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 950+ 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. He is a 2024 Meier Achievement Award winner.