LOOSE CHICKS Set for Uncharted Books Tonight

"Loose Chicks" will be at Uncharted Books, 2630 N Milwaukee Ave, in May! Roberta Miles, the original "Loose Chick" will be starring in and presenting an hour long performance based on her experiences through life. Guest Chicks Amanda Rountree, Mary Lorenz, Sadie Pfannkuche, and Anjee-O will be featured this month. This juicy, gutsy, balsy, cutting edge look at life through the eyes of three femme fatales will be presented at Uncharted Books, 2630 N. Milwaukee. The performance is tonight, June 28th @ 7:15pm. There is a suggested donation.

Roberta Miles, best known to Chicago audiences as a jazz singer and painter, has rapidly gained a reputation for her irreverent autobiographical monologues that make up a tell-all expose of her quirky, edgy life. These monologues are the basis for her one-woman show, which debuted summer, 2009 at the StrawDog Theatre. Roberta has appeared with Jason Paul Smith at the Skokie Theatre Foundation in Skokie, Illinois in a two person show called "Hot Dish: The Monologues." She is also the co-producer of "Café Cabaret" which runs monthly at "Café Ballou" in Chicago. Roberta is an award winning monologuist and a published poet, soon to be a published author.

Amanda Rountree has been performing improvisational theatre professionally since 1992, teaching since 1998, and directing since 2002. She relocated to Chicago in 2007 from Seattle where she was a performer and instructor with Unexpected Productions and a performer and co-artistic director of Playback Theater Northwest. Amanda has entertained audiences in seven countries and countless North American cities utilizing a wide variety of styles, disciplines, and formats. (She's performed everything from improv games in Kentucky and improvised Shakespeare at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival to drama therapy in Japan and breakthrough formats in Germany). Chicago audiences have seen her in Impress These Apes 2, Don't Spit the Water, Soiree DADA: Shmukt die Hallen, The (Edward) Hopper Project, and her one-woman shows, The Good, the Bad, and the Monkey and 185 Buddhas Walk into a Bar. In addition to being a company member of WNEP Theatre, she has been a repeat performer with The Noah Ginex Puppet Company, The Beast Women Cabaret, This Much is True, Chicago Solo Theatre, and The Kates. She is a resident teaching artist for Lifeline Theatre and the Second City Training Center.

Since moving to Chicago six years ago for a job and an intense craving for Ann Sather cinnamon rolls, Mary Lorenz has performed improv, sketch and storytelling all over the Chicago area. Today, Mary is an ensemble cast member at Laugh Out Loud Theater in Schaumburg and an artistic associate at Chemically Imbalanced Theater in Chicago. She will be a featured storyteller next month at the storytelling show You're Being Ridiculous at Mary's Attic and at the Chicago Ladies in Comedy Showcase at Clark St. Beach. She's excited to participate in Loose Chicks, where she can impart much wisdom about the female mind while making references to obscure 90s pop culture trivia.

Angela "Anjee-O" Oliver is a hybrid performing artist of many talents. Through poetry, song, comedy, and unconventional performance art she seeks to inspire a greater interest in performance art that celebrates female empowerment, diversity, and individuality. Anjee-O is a recurring featured poet in the Beast Women Cabaret Series at the Greenhouse Theater. Her refreshingly honest reflections garnered her place as a competing poet on Lethal Poetry's Words That Kill Slam Team. She was most recently featured in Chicago's preeminent 2011 Sketch Comedy Festival. Anjee-O is also founder and curator of The Sweet & Sour Poetry Hour Showcase/Open-Mic, a monthly event that provides local poets, storytellers, and performance artists with a safe platform to showcase their works and build community.

Thanks to Uncharted Books for hosting this event! Uncharted Books sells used literature and nonfiction, from vintage to almost new. They encourage browsing, loitering, chit-chatting, socializing, drinking, eating, writing, working, hanging out, and staying in.