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4th Tuesday of Every Month Pete's Pizza & Bakehouse (1100 W Granville, Chicago) Sign Up List at 6:45 pm Stories at 7:00pm FREE |
Do Not Submit Edgewater takes place in the comfy back room of a neighborhood pizzeria.
Arrive at 6:45 to sign up for a spot, and when your name is called, you will get 7 minutes on stage to share/tell/read anything you'd like. Due to limited hours at this venue, we will probably have space for 10-12 tellers. First come, first served. Listeners welcome.
No experience necessary to participate. All ages welcome.
No pressure, judgement, critiques, or scoring.
No restrictions on content or language except for hate speech.
Food available all evening. 2-for-1 slices on Tuesdays!
Venue is open all day.
Free and metered parking on surrounding streets.
Granville Red Line stop just a block or two away.
Questions, comments, concerns or suggestions? Email us at [email protected]
About Your Hosts
Denise McIntosh lived in a YMCA, was raised to believe that White Castles are transgressive, and got locked in a cemetery during the pandemic. She’s an extraordinary condo board president because she keeps meetings to under an hour. Denise has been writing and performing stories with GeNarrations, the Goodman Theatre’s storytelling program for people “55 and better,” since 2018. Other storytelling gigs have included This Much is True, Voicebox, Show and Tell at Writers Theatre, Is This a Thing?, Do Not Submit, Story Vroom Vroom, Six Feet Apart Productions, The Book Cellar, Charmers Cafe, Story Sessions, Tellers’ Night, the All-Skate at Jarvis Square Tavern, Story Luck at Theater Wit, and Homewood Stories. 2024 marked her fifth year of performing and her first year of producing (her show Shall We Dance?) for the Fillet of Solo storytelling festival hosted by Lifeline Theatre.
Michelle Kaczor feels honored and grateful to give back to the storytelling community that has given her SO MUCH: feelings of freedom, connection, acceptance, a sense of belonging, self-worth, and spiritual nourishment. She discovered personal-narrative storytelling at her first ever Do Not Submit in 2024. She immediately loved it and has tried to use every opportunity to get behind the microphone since! Michelle feels eternally grateful to Scott Whitehair for his consistent encouragement and ongoing support and mentorship. She feels so grateful to have found a medium where she feels free and able to honor her full-self and to (hopefully!) positively inspire the world around her. Michelle has performed at Story Lab,The Get Together, Tenx9, 80 Minutes Around The World, Let Me Tell You, Loose Chicks, and countless Do Not Submits all around the city, as well as Story Vroom Vroom. Michelle is the daughter of Polish immigrants, inconspicuously bilingual, and hopes to one day catch the eye of her future husband while she’s on stage telling a story (especially because it would make for a great story!). Michelle loves Mister Rogers and Jesus, and her greatest desires are to “make goodness attractive”, and to help you feel warmly welcomed to tell your story.
Sue Garvey moved back to the city in 2012 when all three of her children fled the nest. She lives in Buena Park - technically the southern part of Uptown, which her son has christened S’up Town. Shortly after moving to the city, she attended a storytelling event at Hopleaf and was transformed into a huge fan. One of the first people she saw was Samantha Irby (look her up if you've never heard of this amazing writer from Chicago!) Three things make her happy after all these years, the first cup of coffee in the morning (48 years), peanut butter (66 years?) and going to sleep (since the day she was born). Her latest source of happiness, not surprisingly, is the adjustable bed she bought in March. If you need to bribe her – a pint of Graeter’s Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream will always work. She just retired at the end of May and is working hard on adapting to her new life. Having already blown through all 11 seasons of Vanderpump Rules, she is looking for something new to fill her time and is open to suggestions.