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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.
October 10th Cast *16th Anniversary*
Nick Narcisi
Nick Narcisi was an actor before the pandemic. Now he works at a cancer research laboratory. (He is as surprised with that career pivot as you are.) He was really good at telling other people's stories, but only recently started telling his own. Some of his favorite credits include: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Arkansas Shakespeare Theater), Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams Festival of St. Louis), Ethan in Sex with Strangers (Renaissance Theaterworks), A. of Syracuse in Comedy of Errors (Montana Shakespeare in the Parks), and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (Macklanburg Playhouse). He has also worked with the Milwaukee Rep, the Great River Shakespeare Festival, Third Avenue Playworks, and the Children's Theater of Madison. Nick is a Moth StorySlam winner and has worked with a variety of other storytelling shows in Chicago and Milwaukee.
Geneva Norman
Geneva Norman is a Chicago vocalist, songwriter, musician and music arranger. She has performed throughout Europe, including, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Poland, France, Spain, etc. She has performed with musicians along the W. Coast of Africa traveling South along the Atlantic coast to South Africa and in 47 of the 50 United States. She wrote the locally popular “Obama Vote Song” in 2007. She is a storyteller and has been a student and actor at The Goodman Theatre, 2nd Story, Free Street Theater, About Face Theatre, The Looking Glass Theatre and many others. She is the lead vocalist of the Geneva Convention Band and the G2 band. She has arranged many pieces of work throughout her career and is currently the creator and executive producer/director of “The Aretha Project- Chicago Tour." Geneva is the Chair of Northwestern University OLLI, DEI Committee, Chicago Campus and a Teaching Artist at the Goodman Theatre.
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.
Gloria Rabil
Gloria Rabil is a writing and storytelling coach and owner of Prose Story Consulting, LLC. Her storytelling journey began with improv. It was a natural transition from improvising narratives on stage to crafting true, personal stories. Gloria spends her days helping writers bring their projects to life or reviving the ones they keep meaning to finish. She is one of the producers of Testify ATX, Austin's longest-running storytelling show.
Dan Terkell
A lifelong city kid, Dan has long been an eyewitness to, and sometime participant in the urban circus that is Chicago. For all his lengthy work-life, he's held straight jobs including technical writer and budget analyst. Despite significant mileage on his anatomical odometer, he's still a wise guy. However, every now and then, Dan attempts to masquerade as a Serious Human Being.
Kimberly Vanbiesbrouck
Kimberly Vanbiesbrouck is a proud Theatre Major and the first person to graduate college in her big Belgian Family. A long standing member of the Union, Actor’s Equity Association, Kimberly has appeared in such shows as Always, Patsy Cline, Forbidden Broadway, A Chorus Line, as well as Judy Garland in, Beyond the Rainbow. Currently, she travels the country performing with, “Menopause, the Musical.” As long as there is Menopause, Kimberly will probably be using her Theatre Degree to sing, dance and act her way through, “Menopause, the Musical.” Kimberly has told stories around the Chicagoland area, including: Serving the Sentence, This Much Is True, The Moth, Stories R Us, Voicebox and Homewood Stories. Her proudest production of them all, is her wonderful child, Isobel.
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 850+ 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 850+ 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.