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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 |
We will be following all current health and safety guidelines. At this time, vaccination status will not be checked and masks are not required, but welcomed.
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.
JULY 14TH CAST
Lisa Colleen
Lisa is thrilled to be telling her story at This Much is True. She is a writer, storyteller, and teacher who rarely makes it through the telling of one story without interrupting herself with yet another story. She is grateful to experience and witness the magical way stories connect, inspire and heal. She exhibits her writing with the art group Artitude. Check out her latest work at yourwalkeast.com.
Velma Gladney
Velma Gladney is a former Chicago Public School. She was a early childhood educator with a degree in education. She uses her storytelling gifts to help young people develop strong imaginations, self-esteem, character and an appreciation for the written word. Velma’s strong alto voice fuses the mind, body, and soul to deliver powerful stories to audiences of all ages. She has a wide repertoire of stories to fit a range of occasions and audiences. Velma has performed at many venues in the Chicagoland area other places in the USA.
Betsey Manzoni
Betsey Manzoni grew up in Joliet where her vivid imagination supplied the neighborhood kids with endless adventures. She is a piano-playing, story-writing, comedy-adoring, LOVER OF LIFE. Betsey has had numerous on stage opportunities in the South Suburbs, acting, directing and storytelling. She has done voiceover work and industrial videos and she loves to travel and experience the world. She is the extremely proud Mom of the two most incredible humans on the planet. Betsey is thrilled to be back on stage storytelling LIVE!
Errol McLendon
Errol McLendon is a Chicago solo performer and storyteller. His stories have been heard at Backroom Stories, Do Not Submit, This Much is True, Serving the Sentence, Ten X Nine, Soul Stories, Stories on the Square before it got too cold and online at the Elmhurst History Museum. He is a recent Moth Slam winner. Errol also has a solo show, Inner State, which he hopes to eventuually tour across the US to roadside attractions. His young adult novel, The Foulbrood Alliance and the Babysitter Mansion, is soon to be published.
Rachna Prasad
Rachna Prasad talks to strangers. Luckily for her, they will often talk back with her too. And as a result, she has heard many many wonderful stories about people and places and events that just don't make it into the news or the history books. It is this love of stories that led her to invite strangers into her home to share stories over Easy Cheese and Ritz crackers. These events bloomed into monthly Naperville storytelling shows called The People Tree. Rachna and her husband are the overwhelmed parents of 3 teens, 2 cats, and 1 house that is a money pit.
Jack Schultz
Jack Schultz is an actor, teacher, and storyteller in Chicago. He’s Artistic Director of Green Shirt Studio and former Artistic Director of The Agency where his solo show I’m Falling In Love All The Time enjoyed a sold out run on Chicago’s off-loop theatre scene. A story exploring opioid addiction through the lens of caffeine and romantic relationships, I’m Falling In Love All The Time travels to colleges and recovery communities to tackle stigma around substance use disorders. He also appears in Season 7 Episode 2 of The Carbonaro Effect where Michael Carbonaro tricked him into believing a viking skeleton tried to attack him at a construction site outside of O’Hare Airport. To find out more about Jack visit jackgschultz.com.
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 700+ 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.
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 700+ 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.