Miss Spoken
Lady live lit from Chicago, Illinois.
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Worth
10/17/2019
Worth
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
10/17/2019
Petty
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
06/28/2019
Blue Balls
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
05/03/2019
Puppy Love
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
05/03/2019
Jumping the Shark
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
01/14/2019
Family Feud
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
12/06/2018
Pizza Storytelling Showdown - U.S. Pizza Museum
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
12/06/2018
Suffragette City
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
11/09/2018
Scales - Lit Crawl 2018
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
10/30/2018
I Sing the Body Electric
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.
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Catcall
08/29/2018
Catcall
Hey girl hey, pssssst, Lily Be, Ola Faleti, and Karen Clanton want to holler at you about street harassment, but they'll never ask you to smile. 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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The Scene Ain't What it Used To Be
08/28/2018
The Scene Ain't What it Used To Be
Miss Spoken teamed up with Book Fort for Pitchfork Music Festival, bringing the dulcet tones of Ines Bellina, Eunji Kim, and Allie Wachowski to a stage made of paperbacks and hardcovers, that's right a literal fortress of periodicals. 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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Miss Manners
07/18/2018
Miss Manners
Trin Garritano, Karen Shimmin, Meagan Dahl, and JH Palmer take you to charm school. (We go high for the first 120 minutes then the last 10 is primal screaming and voter registration.) 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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Fangirl
07/06/2018
Fangirl
Join us for #ladylivelitcon and nerd out with superfans Megan Kirby, Anne Abel, LeeAnn Yops, Kathleen Rooney, and Keidra Chaney. Harry Potter. Baseball. Music. Magritte. Luke Perry. Think of it like a panel, and by by panel we mean stories about fandom, plus a special bonus narrated raffle! 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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You Throw Like a Girl
05/30/2018
You Throw Like a Girl
Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd - Elizabeth Gomez, Margaret C. Benson, Maggie Hendricks Gaines, and Veronica Arreola talk sports! Featuring guest co-host Carly Oishi, Rosamund took the month off to get married and let's be real once asked who Aaron Rodgers was. Batter up! 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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Strange Days
05/03/2018
Strange Days
Let's get weird with Kristin Lueke, Cinnamon Cooper, Lauren Catey, and Rebekah Frumkin. 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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Girl Crush
03/26/2018
Girl Crush
Swoon hardcore with Genevieve Diesing, Katie Colt, Amanda ReCupido, and Calamity Wyatt for Girl Crush. Bonus raffle from our friends at Toy de Jour, Chicago's premier destination for art, farts, and toys vintage and new. 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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War Paint
02/28/2018
War Paint
New year, new show, new us. Do your face, cue up your speakers, and listen to War Paint, featuring Ashley Ray, Taylor Lacy Klassman, Wendy McClure, and Jessica DiMaio! 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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Meet the Parents
01/21/2018
Meet the Parents
For our last show of 2017, head home for the holidays with Sara Wolfson, Fran Hoepfner, and Lisa White. Bring an appropriate housewarming gift, unresolved family baggage, and a donation for the Chicago Greater Food Depository. 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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Confessions
01/06/2018
Confessions
Keisa Reynolds, Meagan Dahl, and Megan Henricks share their deepest and darkest. Possibly some less serious secrets as well. 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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Freaks and Geeks
12/07/2017
Freaks and Geeks
The kind of girl you read about/in the new wave magazines joins us for Freaks and Geeks: Maggie Wagner, Jessica DiMaio, Julie Marchiano, and Veronica Arreola bring the geeky, weird, and sometimes both. Also, we find out everyone's favorite OTP!
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The Other Woman
11/11/2017
The Other Woman
This month’s theme is The Other Woman, and here’s a mild spoiler: we’re going to start out classic, then get ~*experimental*~. We won’t say much more. The mystery is part of the other, after all. Featuring Lisa Farver, Morgan Elizabeth-Karadjian McNaught, Lindsay Porter, and Katie Johnston-Saurus Dean.
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Mistaken Identity
09/12/2017
Mistaken Identity
Double 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: Kim Nelson is a writer, performer, lifelong Chicagoan, karaoke enthusiast, and regular contributor at . This summer, you can read her Game of Thrones recaps at . She’s on Twitter and Instagram with the handle @ponytailup, where you can see lots of pictures of her awesome dog. Brooke Allen: 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
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Munchies
09/04/2017
Munchies
We’ve got a big appetite for Lucy Knisley, Sarah Becan, Nadine Kenney Johnstone, and Lauren Jordan. We’re also three years old! We were three last month too but uh, we forgot. Grab a slice of pie, celebrate our birthday, and find out about the many ways we are fed.
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Breakin' the Law
08/03/2017
Breakin' the Law
For May, we've got Chloe Riley, Elizabeth Gomez, and Julie Jurgens breakin' the law breakin' the law (guitar squeal). Get your legal ass to that play button to for stories of protest, poor choices, good choices, and more.
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Letters
06/22/2017
Letters
Get out your quills and charge your keyboards, we’re talking about letters. Legal letters, letters of recommendation, Dear John letters, FAN LETTERS OMG, from the desk of featured readers LeeAnn Yops, Anna Wolfe, and Lisa Hilleren. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
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Sibling Rivalry
04/25/2017
Sibling Rivalry
Sister sister brother brother blood and step and everything in between with Molly Rafferty, Al Rosenberg, Leah Jones, Kenzie Seibert, Amy Eaton, and the triumphant aka "I asked her and she said okay" return of co-host Carly Oishi (Jasmine is taking the air in England). Join us for Sibling Rivalry. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
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Basic
04/11/2017
Basic
Is Sam Smith kinda edgy for you? You’re in luck. We’ve got Melanie LaForce, Ali Kelley, Brittany Meyer, and your hosts talking about what those star tattoos on your wrist really mean, and perhaps going a little than you’d expect. Hitch your wagon to our wooo girl trolley for Basic! Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila. (Also we give away a Starbucks gift card.)
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Heroes
03/07/2017
Heroes
There's a hero/If you look inside your heart/You don't have to be afraid/because Amy Sumpter, Crystal Lynette, Allie Kahan, Deborah Siegel, and Louise W. Knight are going to help you cast your fears aside, you know you can survive with their stories of caped crusaders and feminist icons and family. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
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Rites of Passage
12/23/2016
Rites of Passage
Walk with us through those ceremonies, formal and otherwise, that mark the passage from one state to another. Us is Sophie Amado, Lauren Catey, Turi Ryder, and Rachel Hyman, telling stories about Rites of Passage for Miss Spoken's last show of 2016. See you again in January for Heroes. Miss Spoken is lady live lit - a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.
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