January 19, 2012 AUDIO
Eva Tenuto talks with Susan Barnett
about the TMI Project
by Susan Barnett
51% The Women’s Perspective
Eve Ensler's best known work, The Vagina Monologues, has become a seminal feminist work. It's confessional, painful and often hilarious stories inspired three upstate New York women to begin a project that's blossomed into a non-profit organization that encourages women, and now men, to write their stories and perform them on stage. Read more here.
December 14, 2011
Interview with Eva Tenuto, writer, actor, director and founder of the TMI Project
by LEAH, The Drinking Diaries
Each week, we post short interviews with interesting people about their thoughts and feelings on women and drinking. There is such a wide array of perspectives about this topic, and we are excited to gain insight into as many as possible and to share them with you. Read more here.
November 29, 2011
8-4-5 Questions: Julie Novak on TMI, BRAWL, '90210'
by Timothy Malcolm, Times Herald Record
If you've been in the New Paltz and Rosendale area, chances are you know about Julie Novak. When she's not deeply involved in her character for the next BRAWL (Broads' Regional Arm Wrestling League) event, she's helping to spearhead Too Much Information, a reading workshop series that now hosts weekly events.
Read more here.
September 9, 2011
'Too Much Information' returns for Rosendale Theater gigs
by DB Leonard, Times Herald Record
"We're a group pushing toward the same goal, which is taking true stories from the page to the stage and working with groups of people who normally don't get to tell their stories," said Julie Novak, a performance artist and musician, and one of three co-founders of the "Too Much Information" series. Read more here.
September 7, 2011 AUDIO
The Round Table with Joe Donahue
Eva Tenuto, Julie Novak, and Sari Botton discuss the TMI Project and the upcoming show at The Rosendale Theatre September 9 & 10. Click here.
September 1, 2011
by Ann Hutton, New Paltz Times
“Part of what we’re trying to do is to get back to the tradition of oral storytelling. People are longing to hear these kinds of stories, longing to get closer to each other.” Julie Novak is talking about Too Much Information (TMI), the live production of original, very personal monologues performed by local women who have spent 12 weeks writing and rehearsing together. And in the course of sharing their stories, something transformative takes place for the writers – and for the audience members as well. People are moved and inspired, and also well-entertained. They come away with an expanded sense of what it means to be human.
Read more here.
August 18, 2011
by Ann Gibbons, Daily Freeman
We can’t help ourselves.
We’re fascinated, even fixated, like the mongoose on the cobra, like an overheard cellphone conversation from the minutest detail to the blousy, over the top ta-dah, ta-dah.
And one thing leads to another: from tonight’s Story Slam to the staged readings of Too Much Information, the TMI Project, coming to the Rosendale Theatre on Sept. 9 and 10 at 8 p.m., the stories keep coming and we, the fascinated or fixated, keeping listening for more. Read more here.
June 2, 2011
Life Stories: Rosendale Stages Too Much Information
by Ann Hutton, Woodstock Times
How much information do we really need about another person’s life experience? When is one’s knowledge of what it means to be human ever enough? We crave each other’s stories like chocolate and water, acknowledgment and love. And it does body and soul good to tell our own. Read more here.
June 1, 2011
Changing the World One Story at a Time AUDIO
Be The Change Radio: Voices of Action, 91.3 WVKR
Too Much Information is an evening of non-fiction monologues created by women who spent 10 weeks in workshop writing true stories that they had never before told anyone. A lively interview with the director, Eva Tenuto, and four cast members. Recognize the power of truth to make us cry, laugh, and become all the more human. Listen here.
February 7, 2010
Can't get enough 'TMI': 'Too Much Information' to raise money for women's causes
by Bonnie Langston, Daily Freeman
Ten Ulster County women, half of whom participated in area productions of the episodic play “The Vagina Monologues,” have chosen to tackle a performance that is even more emotionally daunting. Read more here.
