Everything takes effort but only some things deserve that sweat. Ashley Ray, Carrie Cook, Sarah Mathers, Carrie Shemanski break down money and power and other elusive concepts of value. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chi

Petty

Oct 17th, 2019 1h 7m

Master shade-throwers Stephanie Weber, Eunji Kim, Elizabeth Gomez, Maggie Hendricks, and special guest host Carly Oishi have some feelings about that. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-ide

Blue Balls

Jun 28th, 2019 49m 59s

We've got enough frustration to power a small country. Luckily, Jillian Ebanks, Jess White, and Lindsay Eanet are here to help us out. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers

Puppy Love

May 3rd, 2019 53m 4s

Did you know, there is a dog The Gallery Cabaret? And also, stories about puppies, relationships, and many other types of animals as well from Kim Nelson, Margaret Benson, Corinne Mucha, and Jessi Chartier. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a story

Jumping the Shark

May 3rd, 2019 58m 59s

We're back and we're not over! We absolutely warrant all the the attention we previously received: LeeAnn Yops, Lisa Farver, JH Palmer, and Carly Oishi make that clear. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois f

Family Feud

Jan 14th, 2019 59m 1s

Bring your grievances and appetites to our last show of 2018. We've got Kim Nelson, Sarah Becan, and Stephanie Weber with a digestif for your holiday meal. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring fema

Pizza Storytelling Showdown - U.S. Pizza Museum

Dec 6th, 2018 56m 42s

We teamed up with the U.S. Pizza Museum for a battle of the slices! This boy-girl pizza party features the following regional styles facing off in an epic showdown: The Midwest Classic: Detroit (Megan Kirby) vs. St. Louis (Theo Hahn repping Den

Suffragette City

Dec 6th, 2018 53m 30s

Talk politics with Chloe Riley, Samantha Abernethy, Hope Rehak, Leah Jones, and special guest co-host Ines Bellina. Then go research Chicago's mayoral candidates, the election is scheduled for February 26, 2019. Miss Spoken is lady live lit:

Scales - Lit Crawl 2018

Nov 9th, 2018 51m 41s

We're going full Libra for this year's Lit Crawl. Transformation. Justice. Maybe turning into actual snakes. Find out what that means from F. Amanda Tugade, Erin Watson, Stephanie Weber, and special guest co-host Carly Oishi.

I Sing the Body Electric

Oct 30th, 2018 47m 50s

We can't talk enough about what bears your ungrateful mind through this terrible world (thank you Carmen Maria Machado, with a nod to Ray Bradbury). Join us and Al Rosenberg, Jessi Chartier, and Melanie LaForce for more tales of the physical.

Catcall

Aug 29th, 2018 49m 58s

Hey girl hey, pssssst, Lily Be, Ola Faleti, and Karen Clanton want to holler at you about street harassment, but they'll never ask you to smile. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identifie

The Scene Ain't What it Used To Be

Aug 28th, 2018 39m 55s

Miss Spoken teamed up with Book Fort for Pitchfork Music Festival, bringing the dulcet tones of Ines Bellina, Eunji Kim, and Allie Wachowski to a stage made of paperbacks and hardcovers, that's right a literal fortress of periodicals. Miss Spo

Miss Manners

Jul 18th, 2018 1h 11m

Trin Garritano, Karen Shimmin, Meagan Dahl, and JH Palmer take you to charm school. (We go high for the first 120 minutes then the last 10 is primal screaming and voter registration.) Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chica

Fangirl

Jul 6th, 2018 1h 47m

Join us for #ladylivelitcon and nerd out with superfans Megan Kirby, Anne Abel, LeeAnn Yops, Kathleen Rooney, and Keidra Chaney. Harry Potter. Baseball. Music. Magritte. Luke Perry. Think of it like a panel, and by by panel we mean stories abou

You Throw Like a Girl

May 30th, 2018 56m 7s

Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd - Elizabeth Gomez, Margaret C. Benson, Maggie Hendricks Gaines, and Veronica Arreola talk sports! Featuring guest co-host Carly Oishi, Rosamund took the month off to get married and let's

Strange Days

May 3rd, 2018 1h 8m

Let's get weird with Kristin Lueke, Cinnamon Cooper, Lauren Catey, and Rebekah Frumkin. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted by Rosamund Lannin and Jasmine Davila.

Girl Crush

Mar 26th, 2018 1h 5m

Swoon hardcore with Genevieve Diesing, Katie Colt, Amanda ReCupido, and Calamity Wyatt for Girl Crush. Bonus raffle from our friends at Toy de Jour, Chicago's premier destination for art, farts, and toys vintage and new. Miss Spoken is lady li

War Paint

Feb 28th, 2018 58m 8s

New year, new show, new us. Do your face, cue up your speakers, and listen to War Paint, featuring Ashley Ray, Taylor Lacy Klassman, Wendy McClure, and Jessica DiMaio! Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois fea

Meet the Parents

Jan 21st, 2018 52m 42s

For our last show of 2017, head home for the holidays with Sara Wolfson, Fran Hoepfner, and Lisa White. Bring an appropriate housewarming gift, unresolved family baggage, and a donation for the Chicago Greater Food Depository. Miss Spoken is l

Confessions

Jan 6th, 2018 42m 45s

Keisa Reynolds, Meagan Dahl, and Megan Henricks share their deepest and darkest. Possibly some less serious secrets as well. Miss Spoken is lady live lit: a storytelling show from Chicago, Illinois featuring female-identified readers, hosted b

Freaks and Geeks

Dec 7th, 2017 1h 4m

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!

The Other Woman

Nov 11th, 2017 55m 57s

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-Karadjia

Mistaken Identity

Sep 12th, 2017 57m 57s

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 Sp

Munchies

Sep 4th, 2017 45m 44s

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

Breakin' the Law

Aug 3rd, 2017 50m 42s

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 li