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 Writi

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. 

You heard it first from Jasmine Davila, Josephine Maria, and Anjali Waikar. This is a recording of our October 2016 show. Miss Spoken is lady live lit - a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers.

Mary Fons and Rebecca Duxler are going to the chapel and they're gonna get married as part of our episode on marriage, divorce, and everything that surrounds. This is a recording of our September 2016 show.    Miss Spoken is lady live lit - a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers.  

Shay DeGrandis, Roberta Miles, and Amy Eaton get out of our dreams, and into their cars. This is a recording of our August 2016 show.  Miss Spoken is lady live lit - a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers.

Miss Spoken participated in Chicago's very first Lit Crawl with a very special theme: Festivals. Rosamund Lannin, Tori Szekeres, and Stefania Rudd brought us stories from the concert fields. Big thanks to the pH Theater, Lindsay Call, and everyone who made Lit Crawl Chicago happen.    Miss Spoken is lady live lit - a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers.

Yes and no with Ada Cheng, Sarah Meltzer, and Caitlin Brecht. This is a recording of our July 2016 show. Miss Spoken is lady live lit - a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers.

You know you heard it on the radio (true): C.A. Aiken, Lauren Kapinski, Julie Marchiano, Amy Guth, Jess Merighi, and Jenny Peel are sweet on someone. This is a recording of our June 2016 show. Miss Spoken is lady live lit - a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers.

Christina Brandon, Lynette Roqueta, and Ju Lee Anna on not getting knocked up. This is a recording of our May 2016 show.   Miss Spoken is lady live lit - a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers.

You never forget your first. Whitney LaMora Currier, Anne Elizabeth Moore, and Kaitlin Sullivan know. This is a recording of our April 2016 show. Miss Spoken is lady live lit - a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers.

Elaine Hegwood Bowen, Monica Guzman, Angel Simmons, and Alba Machado on what it means for them. This is a recording of our Race 2016 show. Miss Spoken is lady live lit - a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers.

Jes Skolnik, Tori Szekeres, Emily Hilleren, and Angela Benander on the art, science, and feelings behind a list of songs. This is a recording of our February 2016 show. Miss Spoken is lady live lit - a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring non-dude readers.