Please join us on Tuesday, January 5th for the first Tuesday Funk of 2010.
Hopleaf Bar at 5148 N. Clark Street
Reading starts 7:30 PM.
Upstairs room opens 7:00 PM.
Come early to get a good seat.
Cash only at the bar upstairs.
J-L DEHER-LESAINT was born and raised in Guadeloupe (French West Indies) and moved to the United States in 1995 where he earned degrees from Harold Washington College, Loyola University Chicago, and the University of Virginia. He is an English professor at Harold Washington College.
KRISTIN LUEKE received her MA in Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she completed a chapbook called
The Troubadour Detours. Her work has appeared in
decomP Magazine.
As actor, educator, and writer
ARLENE MALINOWSKI views solo work as an artistic extension of the social justice work she has been doing for the last twenty five years. Her five solo plays including
What Does the Sun Sound Like and
Aiming for Sainthood have been produced and performed in venues nationwide including St Louis Center of Contemporary Art; 16th Street Theater, Chicago; Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival; HBO Workspace; NoHo Theatre Festival; Ojai Solo Series; National Center on Deafness; West Coast Ensemble; and Blue Sphere Alliance, as well as at numerous colleges throughout the country. Most recently she performed a new piece which was named one of the five best solo shows by
Windy City Times. Her solo work has been honored with an LA Garland Award and nominations for the LA Weekly Award and the Los Angeles Theatre Ovation Award. As an actor she has appeared in numerous theater productions including the world premiere of
By the Music of the Spheres at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Other favorite roles include
Lovers and Other Strangers,
Labor Pains,
Chapter Two,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Deaf West, the critically acclaimed
In A Different Voice and
Faith, Hope and Clarity.
Arlene is also a writer and performer with the nationally touring, multicultural show
A Slice of Rice, Frijoles and Greens which was honored with the White House Award for the Initiative on Race. Recent TV credits include CBS Movie
Sweet Nothing in My Ear,
CSI,
ER,
The Division,
The Practice,
The Division,
Any Day Now, twelve segments of
Fit Spa and Resort and
The X Files. She teaches solo writing and performing in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago, and coaches individual artists. Her numerous solo students have been honored with Garland Awards, special recognition at the Edinburgh Fringe, LA Weekly Awards, FEM Finalists, Windy City Chicago best solo show, and numerous critics pick. She is a contributing writer for the
Week Behind and
Selling Lemonade for Free and is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and Artist in Residence at
16th Street Theater. Her newest play
Anonymous Donor about sperm banks, technology and mean girls will have a Chicago reading in 2009.
MEGAN STIELSTRA is the Literary Director for
2nd Story, a personal narrative storytelling series held in wine bars where she regularly tells stories to drunk people. She's performed for the Goodman, the MCA, the Cultural Center, the Neo Futuraium, Story Week, Wordstock, all sorts of bars and conferences, a vineyard, Opium's Literary Death Match (which she won. Because Literature is a dangerous thing!) and regularly on Chicago Public Radio. She teaches creative writing at Columbia College and The U of C.