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If This Is True with Chris Hall - Podcast

If This Is True with Chris Hall

The podcast that asks actors, improvisers, musicians and entertainers what else is true about them and their lives.

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Comedy Arts Improv Writing Performing Arts Storytelling Music
Update frequency
every 10 days
Average duration
35 minutes
Episodes
107
Years Active
2022 - 2025
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Katherine Davis-Gibbon--Epic Author, Publisher, and Pilates Expert!!

Katherine Davis-Gibbon--Epic Author, Publisher, and Pilates Expert!!

Katherine Davis-Gibbon is an award-winning children’s book author, publisher, certified yoga and Pilates teacher, and mother of two Generation Alpha kids. She founded Riverlet Press in 2021, as a pla…

00:39:25  |   Mon 01 Sep 2025
Electric Blue Yonder--Prog/Americana/Southern Rock Band for the Whole Family!!!

Electric Blue Yonder--Prog/Americana/Southern Rock Band for the Whole Family!!!

"Real American Space Folk" band Electric Blue Yonder was praised by longtime Boston Gobe senior rock critic, the late Steve Morse, for its “meditative mashup of trippy folk-rock psychedelia, cut with…

00:38:40  |   Fri 15 Aug 2025
Paul Vaillancourt--Improviser, Teacher and co-Founder of iO West!

Paul Vaillancourt--Improviser, Teacher and co-Founder of iO West!

Paul Vaillancourt is a writer, actor, director, producer but most of all an improvisor who has been teaching and performing improv across the country for more than 30 years. He is a graduate of the C…

00:35:42  |   Fri 01 Aug 2025
Gillian Bellinger--SAG Actor, Improviser, and Artistic Director of Misfit Improv!!

Gillian Bellinger--SAG Actor, Improviser, and Artistic Director of Misfit Improv!!

Gillian Bellinger is an SAG character actor. To watch her character bits, follow her on Instagram @gillianbellinger.


She has played roles on Hulu's "How I Met Your Father", "Disney's "Just Roll with I…

00:31:16  |   Tue 15 Jul 2025
Amey Goerlich--Chaos Bloom Theater Owner and World Class Improviser!!

Amey Goerlich--Chaos Bloom Theater Owner and World Class Improviser!!

The Artistic Director and Founder of Improv Training Hub, Amey was the Artistic Director of E-MPROV.com, produced and hosted Indie Cage Match at UCB Theatre East Village from 2011-2016.


She started at…

00:50:16  |   Tue 01 Jul 2025
Harold Phifer--Brave Air Traffic Controller and Survivor!!

Harold Phifer--Brave Air Traffic Controller and Survivor!!

For over a decade, Harold Phifer served in a war-zone as a contract air-controller in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. He even survived a suicide bombing by the Taliban. But none of that was as…

00:35:39  |   Sun 15 Jun 2025
If This Is True's 100th Episode!! The Chicago Episode!!

If This Is True's 100th Episode!! The Chicago Episode!!

Join Liz Allen, John Bolger, Susan Messing, Steve Plock and me as we discuss why Chicago is such a touchstone for the art of improvisation! We discuss what's happening in the city, particularly comin…
01:10:24  |   Sun 01 Jun 2025
Joe Bill--Legendary Chicago Improviser, Teacher and Sage!!

Joe Bill--Legendary Chicago Improviser, Teacher and Sage!!

Joe Bill is widely regarded as one of the best teachers of Improvisation in America today. 


He is one of the founding members of Annoyance Theater Chicago, was the Director of Corporate Training at iO…

01:01:08  |   Thu 15 May 2025
Jacob Heiss, PhD--Valiant Cancer Researcher, Improviser and Producer!

Jacob Heiss, PhD--Valiant Cancer Researcher, Improviser and Producer!

Jacob Heiss recently graduated with his PhD in biomedical engineering from The University of Akron. He started doing comedy three years ago when he first took an improv class at Imposters Theater in …

00:28:07  |   Thu 01 May 2025
George Awad--Co-producer of the Asheville Improv Festival!!

George Awad--Co-producer of the Asheville Improv Festival!!

As everyone knows, last fall the Western North Carolina region suffered the most devastating flooding in a century. The beautiful place we call home was forever scarred and changed. But true to form,…

00:26:51  |   Wed 23 Apr 2025
Kay Smith-Blum--Fashionista, Author and Expert Marketer!!

Kay Smith-Blum--Fashionista, Author and Expert Marketer!!

Kay Smith-Blum, a former fashionista and Seattle School Board President, spends her days debunking the tropes of the mid-20th-century history. An odd dream and the recent upheaval over leaking radioa…

00:31:29  |   Tue 15 Apr 2025
Marcia Peck--Celebrated Author and Cellist!!

Marcia Peck--Celebrated Author and Cellist!!

Marcia Peck was inspired by the rhythms and sounds of music echoed in language; her debut novel, Water Music: A Cape Cod Story, combines all of her passions – music, writing, and Cape Cod.The book ha…

00:32:51  |   Tue 01 Apr 2025
Kat Koppett--Applied Improvisation CEO and Performer!!

Kat Koppett--Applied Improvisation CEO and Performer!!

Kat Koppett is the Eponymous Founder of Koppett, a consultancy specializing in the use of improv and storytelling techniques to enhance individual and group performance. She has worked with diverse c…

00:32:08  |   Sat 15 Mar 2025
Sydney Lea--Author of North Country Maine and Poet Laureate!!

Sydney Lea--Author of North Country Maine and Poet Laureate!!

Sydney Lea was named Vermont’s Poet Laureate and received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, his state’s highest artistic distinction. He has had 25 books published in a celebrated lite…

00:31:27  |   Sat 01 Mar 2025
Harker Jones--Author of Comedy, Horror and Children's Novels!!

Harker Jones--Author of Comedy, Horror and Children's Novels!!

Harker Jones grew up on a dirt road in Michigan in a town so small it doesn’t to this day have a traffic light. 


Now a Los Angeles denizen, he has written the best-selling, award-winning novel “Until …

00:34:06  |   Sat 15 Feb 2025
Robert Monroe--Former Casting Executive Turned Author!!!

Robert Monroe--Former Casting Executive Turned Author!!!

Author Robert Monroe knows well of the world he has written about. Though he was not in a rock band, he knows the entertainment world well. Monroe worked as a casting director and talent executive fo…

00:33:18  |   Sat 01 Feb 2025
RJ Stewart--Epic TV, Film and Fiction Writer!!

RJ Stewart--Epic TV, Film and Fiction Writer!!

RJ Stewart is an author and television writer who has worked in Hollywood for 22 years, working on Xena: Warrior Princess. He has been lauded by stars like Lucy Lawless for his writing Xena as a flaw…

00:29:51  |   Wed 15 Jan 2025
Patrick Adams--Kids' Music Composer, Writer and Podcast Host!!

Patrick Adams--Kids' Music Composer, Writer and Podcast Host!!

Born to American parents in Beirut, Lebanon, Patrick Adams’ love of travel may have begun on his first flight when he was just four days old. Patrick spent his early years in such exotic locations as…

00:30:48  |   Wed 01 Jan 2025
Mark Farner--Captain of Grand Funk Railroad!!

Mark Farner--Captain of Grand Funk Railroad!!

As one of the founding members, lead singer, lead guitarist, and wrote more than 90% of the Grand Funk music catalog, Farner has always been known as the energetic driving force on stage, the engine …

00:32:13  |   Sun 22 Dec 2024
David Paul Brooks--Rap Mogul, Businessman and Owner of No Bad Days!!

David Paul Brooks--Rap Mogul, Businessman and Owner of No Bad Days!!

David Paul Brooks, or DPB, as he is known, is a positive rap artist, songwriter, actor, clothing designer, mentor, motivational speaker and Co-Founder and Co-Owner of BreBro International Group LLC a…

00:22:52  |   Sun 15 Dec 2024
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