MORE TO TALK ABOUT
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MORE TO TALK ABOUT (MTTA) is a multi-media, multi-format impact platform — a live space, digital hub, and podcast — enriched with curated resources, prompts, and critical conversations ignited by today’s most acclaimed theatrical works. Meeting the dual need of audience development and engagement, MTTA is a galvanizing space for showgoers and a curious public-at-large who desire to explore the critical topics, themes, and questions a story provokes.
Host
Andrea Ambam is a multi-hyphenate storyteller whose roots sprout from Cameroon. Alongside her artistic practice, which includes writing and performance that pulsates at the intersection of storytelling and truthtelling, she is the Programming Manager & Host at Level Forward.
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Level Forward is a STORY-DRIVEN/IMPACT-MINDED entertainment company, an industry leader in narrative impact and cultural change. Level Forward develops, produces, finances, and distributes unexpected, purposeful, and resonant entertainment. Learn more about Level Forward's creative work here and see the scope of the Company's impact work here.
RESULTS AND IMPACT
4
DIGITAL HUBS
enriched with resources, calls-to-action, and many more ways for audiences to dive deeper
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HYBRID & ENGAGING CONVERSATIONS
PODCAST EPISODES
In-person and livestreamed public conversations with change-agents, thought leaders, cultural workers and artists
constantly expanding our resources, conversations, and a partnerships to new forms to reach more audiences
Interracial Relationships
Racism
Mental Health
Sexual Assault
Generational Trauma
Gun Violence
Masculinity
Land Rights
Middle America
Climate Change
Intersectional Feminism
Reproductive Rights
Voting Rights
Women and Mothers in Politics
LGBTQIA+ Rights
Transracial Adoption
Addiction
Mental Health
Sexual Assault
Bystander Awareness
LGBTQIA+ Rights
820k+
Showgoers prompted with activation
Countless
new audiences reached
WITHIN THREE YEARS OF CREATION
Slave Play debuted on Broadway in the Fall of 2019 and returned in the Fall of 2021 as part of Broadway's post-shutdown reopening. In the Spring of 2022, Slave Play MADE its West Coast Premiere at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.
In addition to a digital resource hub, More To Talk About hosted 9 public conversations with the cast/creatives of SLAVE PLAY centered on healing, racial trauma, sex and relationships, and mental health. The hub and conversations made necessary space for the nearly 300,000 audience members who were "still processing" the activated story and for those who never saw Slave Play but were provoked by the concept and eager to learn more. The conversations were then adapted into 8 podcast episodes - officially launching the More To Talk About Podcast.
POTUS DEBUTED ON BROADWAY IN THE SPRING OF 2022.
In addition to a digital resource hub, More To Talk About hosted 8 public conversations with the cast/creatives of POTUS alongside representatives from the POTUS Coalition (Center for Reproductive Rights, ERA Coalition, Black Voters Matter, She The People, Supermajority Education Fund, IGNITE, & Vote Mama Foundation) and additional special guests (Gloria Steinem, Jamia Wilson, Charlotte Clymer, and more) at Henrietta Hudson - one of the last remaining lesbian bars in the country. The hub and conversations provided 113k audience members with calls-to-action to increase their civic engagement. The conversations were then adapted into 6 podcast episodes - making Season 2 of the More To Talk About Podcast.
USE PASSWORD "BEAUTIFULMORNING" to access the recorded conversations.
THE OKLAHOMA! BROADWAY NATIONAL TOUR BEGAN IN THE SPRING OF 2022.
In addition to a digital resource hub, More To Talk About hosted 6 conversations with the cast/creatives of OKLAHOMA! alongside special guests and thought leaders (Human Rights Campaign and ELMCOR). The hub and conversations provided 220k audience members with resources to address gun violence, transgender rights, toxic masculinity, and more.
THE jagged little pill BROADWAY NATIONAL TOUR BEGAN
IN THE FALL OF 2022 and WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT 2023
Across NORTH AMERICA .
The digital resource hub will provide up to 740k audience members with resources to address addiction, sexual assault, transracial adoption, and more.
In the fall of 2021, playwright Jeremy O. Harris announced that he was pulling his show SLAVE PLAY from the Center Theatre Group season because of the appalling lack of women and non-binary playwrights programmed across their season. In response, Center Theatre Group apologized, took accountability, and made a new commitment to marginalized playwrights beginning with a promise to program an entire season of women and/or non-binary playwrights, especially of color. More To Talk About hosted and captured the landmark conversation between the playwrights of this first-of-its-kind season at Center Theatre Group.
LISTEN TO THE MORE TO TALK ABOUT PODCAST HERE
A well-told story rumbles in our stomachs, itches in our throats, and dances in our toes long after the curtain has closed or the credits have scrolled. They say art is a conversation starter and on More To Talk About we take that literally. Through in-depth conversations and curated resources for all of your curiosities, host Andrea Ambam connects you with the creatives and culture-makers who are pushing the boundaries of entertainment, diving deeper into the topics, themes, and questions ignited by today’s most acclaimed works on stage and screen. This is arts and culture journalism, conversation style!
MORE TO TALK ABOUT uniquely positions itself as a continuum for arts, entertainment, culture, and impact. MORE TO TALK ABOUT lives by the belief that there is always MORE TO do.
MORE TO... THINK ABOUT
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MORE TO TALK ABOUT is an impact production of Level Forward.
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