Angela Nissel reflects on reinventing herself as the funny girl in Philadelphia's top public schools and later as a creative writing major at CAPA (the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts), where she often felt overshadowed by dancers, actors, and musicians. She and Ahmir discuss code-switching, being a "nerdy girl in the hood," and how years of relentless rewrites in high school quietly prepared her for Hollywood writers' rooms. Along the way, the two compare their very different present-day relationships with Philadelphia's public transit system, SEPTA.
Nissel's memoir, Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/good-grief-pass-the-bread-mom-is-dead-angela-nissel?variant=43993025413154] is available now.
