Lisa Evans joins the Queer Lovers qrew to talk about horror films, video games, and about their newest work, Confronting The Ghost of Willie Lynch Their performance piece seeks to explore how queer black love can be a tool for dismantling internalized racism. Audience members are brought through multiple spaces featuring performers, visual art installations and video projections that together build an understanding of how queer black love (and black love as a whole) can in itself be an act of liberation.

Lisa Evans is a QPOC actor, poet, and cultural worker based in Oakland, CA. They have worked with several different Bay Area youth development and arts organizations including Youth Uprising, Youth Speaks, Berkeley Repertory Theater, The Queer&Trans Network of Alameda County, and Art Equity as a cultural worker and change-making consultant. Lisa is currently the Associate Director of Artistic Engagement at the California Shakespeare Theatre.