In Partnership with Chicago Humanities
The Interview Show: Edward Burns + Elizabeth Moen
A live talk show and concert hosted by Mark Bazer

The Interview Show, the long-running live talk show and former WTTW program hosted by Mark Bazer, welcomes Edwards Burns, the writer-actor-director for a discussion about his debut novel, A Kid From Marlboro Road, along with a deep dive into his career as a filmmaker (beginning with The Brothers McMullen). Mark will chat as well with musician Elizabeth Moen, who will also perform a 45-minute set that includes songs from her latest acclaimed album, Wherever You Aren’t. Plus: Patrick Bertoletti, the 2024 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Eating Contest Men’s Division Winner!

Mark Bazer:

Mark Bazer is the host and executive producer of The Interview Show, a talk show held at The Hideout and FitzGerald's and that's aired on Chicago PBS station WTTW. He is also a contributing writer to Chicago Magazine.

Edward Burns:

As a writer, director, and actor, Edward Burns has created fourteen feature films and two television series, including his most recent show, Bridge and Tunnel. He has also starred in numerous films, with his most notable role being in Saving Private Ryan. Burns’ first film, The Brothers McMullen, premiered in competition at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury prize. The film also won “Best First Feature” at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. He is currently in production on his new film, Millers in Marriage for Paramount Global. This fall, Burns is publishing his first novel, A Kid from Marlboro Road, with Seven Stories Press. Ed Burns was born in Woodside, Queens and raised on Long Island. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

Elizabeth Moen:

A self-taught guitarist, Elizabeth Moen wrote her first songs while a student at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. It was a small town in the heartland but also a culturally dense world of artists, musicians, and writers—a scene whose space limitations meant the traditional songwriters, the alternative rockers and the avant-garde enthusiasts were playing the same house shows, talking at the same bars, and dancing in the same clubs. That interdisciplinary experience and its overlap of styles shaped Moen’s aesthetic scope over her first self-released albums. She gave up her lease in Iowa City and toured for two years across the U.S., the UK and the EU, eventually making Chicago her home base. It was during that swirl of migration that she leaned into the project that would become her most recent record, Wherever You Aren’t. Musically, the record teases sounds from alt-country, contemporary Nashville and indie soul, but mostly settles into the less genre-specific tone of early 20s weariness.

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