1 Million Cups Cedar Rapids: Chrissy Hogue Bartels

This Week:
Join us for a conversation with Chrissy Hogue Bartels—producer, actor, and professor of communication at Clarke University—who is making bold moves in the Midwest film industry. Chrissy is currently collaborating with Emmy Award-winning casting director Ross Meyerson and filmmaker Johnathan Brownlee through Torfoot Entertainment Group, working to develop a slate of high-ROI, star-powered film and TV projects aimed at building creative infrastructure and economic opportunity across Iowa and the region.

Chrissy recently co-starred on Chicago P.D., is in production on multiple feature films, and is widely known for her critically acclaimed one-woman show The Stupid Economy, which sold out Off-Broadway and earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination. She also hosts the popular Violent Women in Film podcast, which has racked up over 100,000 views on YouTube.

Don’t miss this engaging session as Chrissy shares her entrepreneurial journey in entertainment, the power of storytelling, and what it means to bring major productions to the Midwest.

Program schedule
8:45 to 9:00 – Coffee & Conversation
9:00 to 9:45 – Official Program
9:45 to 10:00 – Q&A

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• This month, 30th July, 09:00 am, 1 Million Cups presents: Improv Incubator with Anthony Jensen in Cedar Rapids
• Next month, 13th August, 09:00 am, 1 Million Cups Cedar Rapids: Sales Skills for Every Entrepreneur & Business in Cedar Rapids

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