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SPECIAL EVENT IN APRIL!
Please join us at The Get-Together, a hybrid retreat, conference, and house party in Chicago. Affordable, accessible, and fun for everyone. No experience necessary. Click here for full details! |
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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.
April 13th Cast
Robert Cornelius
Robert Cornelius is an actor, singer, educator and activist born and raised on the south side of Chicago. He has been performing here and around the country for over three decades. He loves telling stories, and is looking forward to flexing those muscles.
Lauren Kee
- Lauren Kee is a Boston native and has been living in Chicago for the past six years. She entered the world of storytelling in 2021 by taking a class and has wanted to grow her storytelling skills ever since! Lauren works as an instructional designer for a nonprofit that empowers underrepresented college students to secure strong jobs and achieve economic mobility. Storytelling makes up a critical part of the nonprofit curriculum, and Lauren has been amazed by how storytelling can help young people get to know themselves, take up space, and share their gifts with the world. Outside of work, Lauren loves to play soccer, bike, practice/teach yoga, and dabble in various other activities like tennis, salsa, and rock climbing.
Meg Lavery
Meg is a middle school Wellness teacher and coach who is passionate about helping kids become good humans. Her jam is teaching essential topics like mental health, consent, communication, and empathy. She told her first story at the Wild Goose Festival in Hot Springs, NC and has continued telling stories at Chicago-area events. Her Grand Slam story is on The Moth podcast, and she is featured on Nadia Bolz-Webers's podcast. Meg teaches restorative yoga/mindfulness in her free time and loves to read, write, hike, kayak, and walk her dogs in the conservation community, where she resides with her wife, daughter, and menagerie of rescue animals. She is happiest when listening to live music with a good craft beer.
Brendan Meyer
Brendan Meyer is an award-winning narrative non-fiction writer living in Chicago. His human interest stories have taken him to newspapers and magazines all across the country and London, such as ESPN, Outside Magazine, The Dallas Morning News and The Independent (UK). Normally, he sits in his writing chair with sweatpants and Black tea, writing these stories for an audience of none. That’s why he relishes opportunities like this to share his love for stories and storytelling, on-stage, surrounded by all of you.
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 tangoed 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 savors the famous Chicago winter by tucking into a warm bowl of ramen and staring endlessly into the vast still blues of Lake Michigan.
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.