Season 5
Sophia Vourdoukis, Cofounder of the women-owned Argonaut film and theatre collective, recalls listening to her grandmother's fanciful bedtime stories, and realizing they were often connected to a darker reality.
Dave Temkin, a Social Worker for the past 33 years, recalls the early trauma of losing his 12 year old sister to brain cancer, and his mother to suicide.
Kim "Kid" Curry, radio personality and program director, details the beginning of his career and his later battle with Multiple Sclerosis
Jennifer Griffith, Host of the "About your Mother" Podcast and Author of Both Sides of Then: Finding Love After Abandonment, recalls learning at the age of 13 that her mother had an 18 year old son she had given up for adoption.
Dana Hall, award winning playwright and mental health therapist, recalls being 8 years old and watching a tree she loved get cut down.
Allie Costa. actor, writer, director and singer, recalls being five years old and getting her first role without having to audition.
Will Sonheim, writer, filmmaker and improvisationalist, recalls a disastrous 8th grade birthday party where he tried to recreate and film his own "Whose Line is it Anyway?"
Rabbi Allen Secher recalls the early anti-semitism he suffered and how he consequently became a Civil Rights and Social Justice advocate.
J.S. Puller, Chicago playwright and author, recalls an early acting experience playing "Hans Solo" for a grade school production and how it inspired a lifetime of fan fiction and original storytelling.
David Kovacs, Co-founder of the Chicago Interfaith Family School, tells the powerful story of enduring the suicide of his father as a 14 year old boy, and finding strength through a loving partner and shared religious faith..
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