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The 25th Annual Fillet of Solo Festival brings ten storytelling collectives and 28 solo performers together from all over the country in a three-week online gallery of stories. Lifeline’s Fillet of Solo Festival aims to celebrate the breadth of Chicago’s enduring storytelling and live-lit scene. In addition to the virtual gallery, this 25th Annual Fillet of Solo Festival features live virtual extras including panel discussions and storytelling workshops with the Fillet of Solo Festival’s artists.
The Chicago-based Festival is curated by former Lifeline Theatre Artistic Director Dorothy Milne and former Live Bait Theater Artistic Director Sharon Evans.
The 25th Annual Fillet of Solo Festival features solo performances by:
- Anu Bhatt: Stories from my Motherland
- Christina Calvit: Rats ‘R’ Us
- Jimmy Carrane: TBA
- Heather Currie: It’s a Sunny Day
- Jimmy Doyle: Sweet Jane
- Shelby Marie Edwards: Antidote in Weeping Willows
- Nona Flores: I Sleep With Dogs
- Kevin Gladish: The Canvass
- John Hahm: The Drawing Wall
- Ayun Halliday: Japanese Penpal
- Archy Jamjun: A Boy & A Diva, Part 2: Love's Lost and Found
- Bryan Kett: Grouper
- Georgia Knapp: Was möchten Sie?
- Kristina Lebedeva: The Edges of the Mind
- Amanda Link: Surrender
- Betsey Manzoni: Why Not
- Adam Marcantoni: Potato Coat
- Errol McLendon: Roadside Attraction
- Victoria Montalbano: The Princess Strikes Back: One Woman’s Search for the Space Cowboy of her Dreams
- Kim Morris: Peace of Pi
- Harrison Ornelas: Zen and the Art of Cable Coiling
- Claudia Reilly: Bowling in Hollywood
- Connie Shirakawa: Connie’s Covid Chronicles
- Mike Speller: Temptation Twins
- Francesca Sobrer: TAXI
- Jameson Wentworth: [Out of] Context: Identity War
- Bernard White: Up, Up and Away
Plus the work of the following storytelling collectives:
- 80 Minutes Around the World: Immigration Stories: A group of local performers assembled by Nestor Gomez aim to illuminate the immigrants living in the city.
- AAPI Stories: hosted by Archy Jamjun
- Back Room Stories: a curated show that features voices from across the spectrum of storytelling.
- Is This a Thing?: a storytelling show that features new and experienced writers and tellers of true personal tales. This show aims to create a space for the listening and sharing of ideas.
- Serving the Sentence: a show in which different storytellers take the same first sentence – each in their own direction. At the end of the show, a new sentence is drawn that the next show's storytellers will embark from.
- Survivance: Series 2 (Dear 21 Year Old Me): a storytelling partnership between the Henry Williams Love Foundation and The Pisces Life Podcast and Network.
- Stir-Friday Night!: a nonprofit theater company, specializing in sketch comedy and improvisation
- Story Sessions: Friends With Words: a monthly show featuring a collection of performers and open mics sharing true personal stories.
- Sweat Girls: With 28 years of shared history, the Sweat Girls represent the greying edge of Chicago's Live Lit community.
- Tellin’ Tales Theatre: Rewind: a show that aims to shatter the barriers between the disabled and non-disabled worlds through personal story — adult solo performances as well as Six Stories Up, a mentoring program and show featuring kids and adults, with and without disabilities.
For more information, visit the Lifeline Theatre website.
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