Join us for a talkback about The Light
We're thrilled to host two moderated post-show discussions for The Light to dive deeper into the themes of the show. These talk-backs will take place immediately after the performances on Sunday, December 6 and Sunday, December 13 at 6:30 PM (Pacific Time). Both discussions will be moderated by Amissa Miller.
Themes discussed will include:
- Black love
- Dynamics between Black womxn and men, and how we can hold each other up
- Dynamics between womxn and men
- Violence against womxn and how our value is dependent on our relationships to men
How to attend
Patrons will automatically receive a link to the post-show Zoom discussion room in their thanks for coming email the morning after the performance. We will also send a dedicated reminder with the link to all that weekend's patrons on Sunday.
If you do not receive either email, drop us a line at boxoffice@shotgunplayers.org and we're happy to send the link your way!
More about our moderator
Amissa Miller (she/her) is an artist, educator, and facilitator with a background in new play dramaturgy, playwriting, and community-based arts education. Her work as a dramaturg includes developmental workshops and productions at companies including Crowded Fire Theater, The Huntington Theatre Company, The Women’s Project, Ars Nova, and The Movement Theatre Company. As a writer, her work includes the short screenplay The Big Chop (a finalist at the 2014 Black Star Film Festival), as well as the short plays Breaths (featured in Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco’s Best Plays of 2019 Showcase) and Her Own Things (published in the Fall 2019 issue of African Voices Magazine). She’s a member of the PlayGround Writers’ Pool, where her play Refusal of the Call received a virtual staged reading at the November 2020 Monday Night PlayGround reading series. Amissa has co-created art for social justice in various youth and community spaces, with organizations including Opening Act New York, Wide Angle Youth Media, and ArtsEmerson. She has taught courses in dramatic literature, applied theatre, and community engagement at New York University, Emerson College, and the University of Texas at Austin. At UT Austin, she served as the Interactive Theatre Specialist for Voices Against Violence, a program that trains students to create and perform interactive workshops about consent, interpersonal violence prevention, and healthy relationships. Amissa is currently an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Saint Mary’s College of California, where she directed the Fall 2019 production of This is Modern Art by Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval. Outside of her work in theatre and education, Amissa is a CA State Certified Rape Crisis Counselor and has volunteered as a hotline crisis counselor with San Francisco Women Against Rape.
