Worth
Miss Spoken
Everything takes effort but only some things deserve that sweat. Ashley Ray, Carrie Cook, Sarah Mathers, Carrie Shemanski break down money and power and other elusive concepts of value. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
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Petty
Miss Spoken
Master shade-throwers Stephanie Weber, Eunji Kim, Elizabeth Gomez, Maggie Hendricks, and special guest host Carly Oishi have some feelings about that. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
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Blue Balls
Miss Spoken
We've got enough frustration to power a small country. Luckily, Jillian Ebanks, Jess White, and Lindsay Eanet are here to help us out. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
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Puppy Love
Miss Spoken
Did you know, there is a dog The Gallery Cabaret? And also, stories about puppies, relationships, and many other types of animals as well from Kim Nelson, Margaret Benson, Corinne Mucha, and Jessi Chartier. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
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Jumping the Shark
Miss Spoken
We're back and we're not over! We absolutely warrant all the the attention we previously received: LeeAnn Yops, Lisa Farver, JH Palmer, and Carly Oishi make that clear. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
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Family Feud
Miss Spoken
Bring your grievances and appetites to our last show of 2018. We've got Kim Nelson, Sarah Becan, and Stephanie Weber with a digestif for your holiday meal. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
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Pizza Storytelling Showdown - U.S. Pizza Museum
Miss Spoken
We teamed up with the U.S. Pizza Museum for a battle of the slices! This boy-girl pizza party features the following regional styles facing off in an epic showdown: The Midwest Classic: Detroit (Megan Kirby) vs. St. Louis (Theo Hahn repping Dennis Lee) The Out-of-Town Cousins: California Pizza Kitchen (Rosamund Lannin) vs. Neapolitan (Heather Kenney) The Major Leagues: Chicago (Maggie Hendricks) vs. NYC (Jasmine Davila)
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Suffragette City
Miss Spoken
Talk politics with Chloe Riley, Samantha Abernethy, Hope Rehak, Leah Jones, and special guest co-host Ines Bellina. Then go research Chicago's mayoral candidates, the election is scheduled for February 26, 2019. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
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Scales - Lit Crawl 2018
Miss Spoken
We're going full Libra for this year's Lit Crawl. Transformation. Justice. Maybe turning into actual snakes. Find out what that means from F. Amanda Tugade, Erin Watson, Stephanie Weber, and special guest co-host Carly Oishi.
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I Sing the Body Electric
Miss Spoken
We can't talk enough about what bears your ungrateful mind through this terrible world (thank you Carmen Maria Machado, with a nod to Ray Bradbury). Join us and Al Rosenberg, Jessi Chartier, and Melanie LaForce for more tales of the physical.
info_outlineDouble agents. Passing. Going undercover. There’s a lot of ways to be not what you seem, and this Wednesday Brooke Allen, Allie Wachowski, Kim Nelson, and Bea Cordelia get into these cases of Mistaken Identity with humor, grace, guts.
Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
Reader bios:
Bea Cordelia:
Bea Cordelia is an award-winning, Chicago-bred, internationally slandered writer, filmmaker, performance artist, actor, producer, educator, & activist whose work uplifts & reimagines the narratives of transgender people. Her “life-changing” solo show Chasing Blue has featured in Steppenwolf Theatre’s LookOut performance series & The Brick’s inaugural Trans Theatre Festival in Brooklyn. In 2016 she developed her first multimedia installation The Cosmic Body in a University of Chicago Performance Lab residency through Salonathon, was made a Luminarts Cultural Foundation Creative Writing Fellow for her poem “The Future,” and made headlines for her lawsuit against the City of Chicago regarding its sexist & transphobic ordinance forbidding the exposure of breasts in establishments with liquor licenses. She is represented by Paonessa Talent Agency, and is currently working on the forthcoming web series The T with co-creator Daniel Kyri & distributor Open TV.
Kim Nelson:
Brooke Allen is a Chicago playwright and storyteller. Her work has been published on such websites as Story Club Magazine and Role Reboot. She has performed with YBR, Essay Fiesta, Mortified, Paper Machete, Guts and Glory, Write Club and more. She loves pizza and cats.
Allie Wachowski:
Allie Wachowski is a writer, local internet sensation, teen heartthrob, and the self proclaimed Mariah Carey of the Midwest. you can find her online, or getting asked to leave your favorite bar