Over the last 11+ years, we have provided the space for OVER 850 people from every walk of life and experience level to share their true personal stories with packed houses of attentive listeners. Each show is an unpredictable mix of the hilarious and the heartbreaking featuring memorable tales from your friends, neighbors, and fellow Chicagoans.
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3rd Thursday of Every Month Mrs. Murphy & Sons Irish Bistro 3905 N Lincoln Ave., Chicago 7:30 PM (Doors at 7:00) FREE New Voices Telling New Stories
Join us for an intimate evening of storytelling in the cozy back room of one of Chicago's best pubs. Each month, an entirely different lineup of up-and-coming storytellers will share their stories. Hosted by Scott Whitehair.
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August 15th Cast
Patty Boyer
Patty is a Chicagoan and no matter where she goes, her heart always brings her back home to Chicago. She even moved to northern AZ with her family for 10 years and thoroughly enjoyed the hiking, biking, and endless sunshine. Eventually, she remembered that her greatest joy really came from spending time and lots of laughs with her very large, extended family in the Chicagoland area. She’s back in town and ready to tell some stories.
Robert Collin
Robert is a retired ELS teacher, having taught in Zaire, Chicago and Korea over the years. He was in plays in high school, and college and for 6 weeks on an English education program in Korea, playing Detective Pink in a weekly mini-mystery series. Since his retirement in 2010 he has joined the senior citizens story telling classes at the Goodman Theatre and this is his first appearance at Mrs. Murphy's.
Emily Anna Maciel Gonzalez
Emily Anna Maciel Gonzalez has been a chatterbox since the womb, born and raised on the Southside of Chicago. She is a poet, avid storyteller, advocate for local politics and most importantly a White Sox fan. As of lately she resides in Wicker Park with her pet rabbit, Scorpio. By day she is a bilingual PreK 3-5 teacher and nanny. By night she is a dive bar enthusiast, trivia champion and host of Do Not Submit Humboldt/Wicker.
Jonathan Holubiak
Jonathan Holubiak was born on the north side of Chicago, raised on the south side, and currently resides on the west side. He is currently working towards his master’s in clinical mental health counseling, enrolled in a mindfulness-based transpersonal program in Boulder, CO - hippie shit. He has studied in The Second City’s Conservatory program, told stories for The Moth, hosted events & open mics, and is an ordained minister with experience as a wedding officiant. Jonathan values performing, painting, hockey & biking, community, and playing outside, where he can be found for hours on end at the local park with his best friend, a fourteen-year-old German Shepherd named Brucedog. He embraces the three D’s – dancing, death metal, and dinosaurs, and hopes to one day be a valet for a professional wrestler.
Ingrid Masterton
Ingrid Masterton is, by profession, a physical therapist and educator within medicine and healthcare, but one who has been developing her own writing and performing skills. The experiences that those callings have entailed, along with those of being a wife, mother and grandmother, have made clear to her that life is - more often than not - an incomprehensible paradox. And, she understands that sharing stories is one of the few tools we humans have to find joy and peace within the ambiguity that surrounds us.
You can find out more about Ingrid and her mission to use performance art as a tool for learning and collaborative decision-making within the worlds of medicine and healthcare at, www.iamazebra.com
You can find out more about Ingrid and her mission to use performance art as a tool for learning and collaborative decision-making within the worlds of medicine and healthcare at, www.iamazebra.com
Louis Silverstein
Louis (Luchiano) Silverstein, Ph.D., Co-director of the Life Arts Society and Distinguished Professor of Humanities (Emeritus) at Columbia College Chicago, is a transcendental philosopher and practitioner, educator. author, storyteller, sand writer, terra artist, public speaker and societal/cultural activist. His talks have taken him to settings throughout the U.S., Jamaica, Costa Rica, Canada, numerous European countries, and into realities beyond that which can be known by reason alone. Having taken a road less travelled during his lifetime, he is known as having planted so many seeds among his students and general audiences that forests of his teachings and practices are growing everywhere. Author of Deep Spirit & Great Heart: Living In Marijuana Consciousness, and Encountering Life’s Endings, he is currently working on his later book “Blow Your Mind, Open Your Heart, Teach Your Soul.”
Scott Whitehair (Host)
Scott Whitehair is a storyteller, teacher, and producer living in Chicago, IL. He is the producer of This Much Is True, Chicago's longest running monthly personal narrative series, 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. In 2014, he was the featured instructor at Hong Kong Story Worthy Week, headlined by David Sedaris, and in 2015 taught an intensive at All Hallows College in Dublin.
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