Tonight I’ll share the stage with Scott Wood, poet extraordinaire at REAL TALK LIVE at Elastic Arts, 2830 N Milwaukee Ave. Show starts at 7:30pm and it’s FREE. If you want to see something besides improv, sketch or Biggest Loser this is the place to be. See you there!
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Co-star to Cuteness
A couple weeks back a friend of mine reached out and asked if I’d work on a spec commercial with him for an all natural dog food. A day out in the sun walking with a dog! You bet. Turns out the client loved his work as much as I loved working with him. Here’s [...]
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I’m co-produding a one-of-a-kind show on June 8th called Interface. We’ll have five story tellers who’ll each tell a story. After each story our very talented pianist Matthew Loren Cohen will create a piece of music inspired by that story. All the while Shawna Bowman a visual artists will be creating a piece of art [...]
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One of my absolute favorite things I do in the city is happening once again tomorrow night. Seven storytellers gather for an evening to tell their stories, their way. It’s always a fun night and always packed. So if you’re planning on coming out tomorrow night, please arrive early. grab a seat and listen in [...]
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My dad and I are not that close. Our conversations happen on average about once a month and last as long as it takes to say: “Hi dad, how are you?” “Oh, I’m doing good, how are you?” “I’m good…how’s the fishing?” “Oh, it’s pretty good…here I’ll let you talk to Evie” And at that [...]
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One of my favorite things I do in the city is coming up on Tuesday, April 12th. It’s a monthly storytelling series called This Much is True. This month we’ve got a crazy awesome lineup that I’m so excited about. For the first time ever, we’re bringing in music–Duck and Goose. I met Emily and [...]
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As Chicago temperature’s rise and coats remain hanging on the coat tree for two consecutive days or more, I am ready to plug back into life. Six days after my last post on January 6th, I was working a week long improv training at Duke University when I got the call. My step-sister Missy: “Deanna, [...]
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Everybody goes through peaks and valleys in life. And let me tell you, 2010 was a VAL-AL-LEEE for me. Other than an an ill-fated attempt at P90X during the summer where Rance and I lived in a sublet with no natural gas coming into the gas stove, I really didn’t exercise to help alleviate some [...]
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I’m so bummed to be missing this month’s installement of This Much is True. We’ve got a really great show line-up with some fresh new voices and some of favorites added to the mix from last year. I’m off to North Carolina to teach a week long improvisation class with Duke MBA students through Business [...]
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Didn’t get your story fix this month because “This Much is True” was canceled? No worries, come by tonight, 10:30 upstairs @ iO Theater, I’ll be telling a holiday story with the show “Holiday Punch in the Face”. Come by and check it out.
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