Upcoming Shows
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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.
Tidepools
By Francesca Sobrer September 8th @ 6:30 PM The story of one woman’s journey swimming in and out of the flotsam and jetsam of life. This show takes the audience for a ride in the waves with the story of finding and living love only to be caught in an undertow of loss and grief that eventually drifts back onto the shore in a tidepool of realized joy. |
Storyteller, writer, teacher, actor and director, Francesca Sobrer enjoys working with actors and storytellers to help them develop the story they want to tell. A one-time high school theatre director and English teacher, she has been published in Chicago Storytellers Press, from Stage to Page, True Stories About Love, and co-editor with Liminal Publishing, A POET’S TAROT by Josep Miquel Sobrer. A multi Moth StorySLAM winner in Chicago, Milwaukee and New York City, Sobrer has told stories for Back Yard Story, This Much is True, Soul Stories, South Specific, Soul Serenade, First Person Live, Nantucket Dreamland, BackRoom and Homewood Stories.
Get Fucked
By Suzie Campbell September 22nd @ 6:30 PM Suzie just wanted to get fucked, but having a hysterectomy to treat pre cervical cancer at 35 years old didn't make it easy. This is the story of a single mom’s journey of self exploration after the surgery that changed her body forever, and recounts her quest to have sex before her impending surgery and her subsequent sexual awakening. |
Suzie Campbell is a single mom living in Evanston, IL with her two children. A Loyola University Chicago alum with a degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies, she now works as an Salesforce Manager for a non-profit company. Suzie started telling stories about her life after her hysterectomy at 35 years old and has been seen at storytelling shows such as Story Colliders, Is This A Thing?, Pour One Out, and Filet of Solo. Suzie shares stories that often show that reproductive journeys are not always linear, sexuality is not always straightforward, and that seeking support for mental health treatment - especially in relation to motherhood - isn’t something shameful. She believes if more people talk about these ideas openly, the stigma around them will decrease over time.