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How did you come to create A Light in Dark Places?
I started A Light in Dark Places as a way to combat the isolation and stigma surrounding suicide through the communal experience of theater. My dad died by suicide when I was in college, and I found myself exposed to shame, isolation and even rejection. Either of him or myself. But as I began healing, I began to learn and to see the how much suicide can impact a community. I learned every suicide affects approximately 100 people, and someone dies by suicide every 40 seconds.
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