Company Member, Megan Shuchman got a chance to sit down with 2nd Story fan Nicole Ripley and learned a little bit about her and what draws her to 2nd Story. They met during our March Underground Wonder Bar show, Say My …
Editor’s note: With the launch of our brand new workshop, Maximum Exposure, we asked the instructor,
We asked Lynn Zimmerman, a first-time writer and Page to the Stage student, just a few questions about her experience with the class and working on writing a full piece for an end-of-the-class performance. Here’s what she had to say: Had …
Ozzie and I started planning this week’s podcast about two months ago at Pillars Social Cafe in Rogers Park. We were looking for an excuse to do another special episode. Ozzie pulled up a calendar of North American holidays and …
It’s cold outside…the snow is falling, leaving blankets of white on the city streets…the best thing to do is to snuggle up with a cup of tea and read a good story…YOUR STORY! Reading submissions is one of my all-time …
I wiped a lingering tear from the corner of my eye as my hands shot together with crazy applause. I felt light headed, and realized I had been holding my breath for 15 minutes. I was 23, it was my …
The Preview When I went to see my first 2nd Story show I was quite impressed with the set-up- from the fancy bar, to the amazing readers to the sound that accompanied the words. I wanted this. I wanted to …
One of my all-time favorite, top-five desert island short stories is “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe. Have you read it? Maybe some teacher assigned it years ago and you remember the gist: the narrator is crazy, kills some …
With so many great titles and even greater stories in the pages of 2nd Story’s very first anthology, Briefly Knocked Unconscious by a Low-Flying Duck, we wanted to give them each their own chance to be appreciated. So we thought, …
8 pm. Friday night. Chicago. Between a last-minute grocery store run and doubling back to the studio on Ravenswood for sound equipment, it had taken fellow new company member Ozzie Totten and me a good hour longer than we’d planned …