Amy Oppenheimer’s
Looking For Justice
(In All The Wrong Places)

The Marsh San Francisco Main Stage

November 29 – December 13, 2026

Sundays at 5:00 pm

Written & Performed by: Amy Oppenheimer
Director: David Ford
Performance Coach: Julia McNeal

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Ticket Information

Tickets: $25 – $35 General Seating | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating

75 Minutes | No Intermission

(Please do not bring infants to the show)

Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance.
Additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.

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Show Description

A hippie, activist, lesbian, feminist, lawyer, judge’s search for identity & justice.

The at times humorous and at times deadly serious show begins when Amy moves  to Berkeley in the early 1970’s during second wave feminism.  Amy finds her identity as a lesbian feminist, goes to law school to fight for women’s rights, represents coal miners and battered women in Appalachia and returns to California to open a lesbian feminist law practice. She is representing women who had been sexually harassed – pre-Anita Hill – but keeps seeing all sides of things, becomes an administrative judge and starts a law firm to do mediation and impartial investigations of harassment and discrimination. She adopts two children – both biracial – and experiences racism up close and personal. 

In the meantime, she can’t stop revisiting her first experience with the criminal justice system in 1970 when she accompanied a friend to a rape trial. Her (white) friend had been raped by a (Black) boyfriend. The friend wanted him to get help, rather than serve a decade in prison. This restorative justice solution was not an option. Amy wonders about her role in the verdict and if real justice is possible in an unjust world.

Content Advisories: The content of this production includes topics and events that may be triggering to some people including sexual violence/rape, sexual harassment, racism and familial violence.

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Special Events

November 30: Opening Short Performance by Christina Aanestad, vignettes from her series Experiences of a Jailed Woman.

Christina Aanestad is a radio journalist, media maker and member of FIPPP – Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, her coming-of-age story includes foster care, homelessness, violence, abuse, addiction, and incarceration. As a biracial media maker, she’s committed to uplifting and humanizing the voices of people from marginalized populations. New to performance art, Christina has appeared at the SF Fringe Festival, FIPPP Fest, and the Marsh’s In Front of Your Eye’s Festival 2026, where she won Best Short Dramedy. She is host of the FIPPP podcast that also aired on KPFA, 94.1 FM in Berkeley, Ca.

December 6: Amy will lead an after-performance visioning session with Janelle White, ED of SFWomenAgainstRape, focusing on what justice would look like for survivors of sexual violence.

December 13: Opening Short Performance by Irma Herrera, excerpt from The ICEmen Cometh. Your rights are next. This one-woman show exposes how the Trump Regime’s war on immigrants is a war on all of us — as ICE terrorizes our communities, no one is safe.

Irma Herrera is a writer, solo performer, and former civil rights lawyer. Her play, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? which had a five-month run at The Marsh (SF and Berkeley) explores what it means to be American by weaving personal stories, humor, and historical events. The ICEmen Cometh (in development) examines how EVERYONE’s rights are at risk, not just immigrants who are the targets of the cruel and brutal actions of the Trump Regime. An excerpt of Class Migrant de Aqui y de Allá (also in development) was featured as a short in the IFOYE Festival in 2024.

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