Jeremy Owens
Nonfiction
Chicago, IL
Jeremy Owens is the creator, producer and host of You're Being Ridiculous, a long running Chicago live-lit/storytelling show most recently featured at Steppenwolf Theatre. Jeremy's work has appeared in The Daily Dot, Story Club Magazine, Role Reboot, The JUF News, Thread, and Alma, and has also been featured in the storytelling shows Story Jam at Ragdale Ring, WRiTERS' NiGHT, Essay Fiesta, Fillet of Solo Theatre Festival, Guts & Glory, Story Club Chicago, Story Sessions, The Paper Machete, This Much Is True, That's All She Wrote and others. He has taught storytelling as a writer in residence at Write On, Door County, Story Studio Chicago, Highland Park High School's Focus on the Arts Program, Leyden High School Writers Week, Baker Demonstration School, Northwestern Summer Writers Conference, Northeastern Illinois University, and Story Studio Chicago's Writers Festival. He teaches LGBTQ/Queer non-fiction writing and storytelling at Story Studio Chicago. Jeremy is a graduate of The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and has an MFA in performance from Roosevelt University in Chicago. His solo show My Big Gay Fairytale, which was scheduled to premiere at Steppenwolf in the summer of 2020 (thanks, Covid), will hopefully make its debut in 2021(fingers crossed).
Featured Work
Work Sample by Jeremy Owens
I am not what happened to me. I am every kindness, all the love, and every miracle that came after. I say this as a reminder and mantra for those of us who have been wronged. If I can be comfortable in my skin, maybe you can be comfortable in yours. I promise to tell my story until my throat is raw, until my voice becomes fire, until my fiery voice melts my fear, until I am unable to make sound. May I never stop, may I never be afraid to tell my story or raise my voice ever again.