Pranks on Demand

Ashley Dowden joins us for a frank conversation from her basement where she eats cookies next to her cats litter box while she hides from her kids. We talk about our thoughts about growing up 6 years apart in the Midwest, being moms who fail, and of course we prank phone call an old friend.

Jill Stuck, owner of Storytown Improv in Chicago, talks to Jessica about How to be a Midwestern Woman. We talk about whether you can trust nice people, if it's ok if no one likes you, and the love language of pie. Performer, writer, and teacher Jill Olson Stuck is the founder and producer of Storytown Improv.  She is a graduate of the improvOlympic and Second City Conservatory programs, and has performed with iO, Second City’s Skybox Theater, Moving Dock Theater Company, Redtwist Theatre, and WNEP with Seven Deadly Plays and 365 Sketches.  She studied playwriting at The Chicago Dramatists, and her writing credits include Mayfly: A Collection of Short Plays, Left Unnamed (The 5th Annual Women’s Performance Art Festival with Stockyards Theatre Project), and Eleanor in American Machine and Other Works. Jill teaches with Dream Big Performing Arts Workshop, and The Laughing Academy, and has served as Program Coordinator for This Is ME and Child Whisperer for The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival. She holds a BA in Theater Arts from Towson University, where she graduated Cum Laude.

This first episode introduces your host Jessica Hardy Kado and is an introduction to How to Be a Midwestern Woman.