Miss Spoken

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!

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.

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:

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

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.

Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.

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.

Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.