Vanessa 'Sessa' D'Amelio
- Producer
- Production Manager
Vanessa "Sessa" D'Amelio is an American scenester, poet, producer, photographer, and music journalist. D'Amelio is a diverse and gifted storyteller. Having grown up in the heart of the 1980s Bay Area music scene, she wrote and contributed hundreds of articles to zines, local papers and website under a number of monikers. Challenged by gender bias, many pen names were fictitious male personas she created after finding that most zines wouldn't publish female writers. D'Amelio is also the founder of the short-lived 1990s San Francisco Brechtian Theater Group - "Destruct Construct," a product of her tutelage at the New College of California by famed Beat Poets David Meltzer and Neeli Cherkovski. She holds three degrees, including a MFA from New College and an MA from Academy of Art in Film. She is the founder, owner and principal of Pop Theory, a production studio in San Francisco that works with up and coming filmmakers and technology companies. In 2018, D'Amelio opened the Sound Parlour, a literary blog with punk rock ethos. Focusing efforts on podcasts, video interviews, and new media, Sound Parlour will bring to life stories from local musicians and legends focusing on their struggle to get off the ground and their road to infamy. She has most notably worked with Chip Baker Films as executive producer on feature documentary films focusing on punk rock legends, The Clash, Johnny Thunders and Sid and Nancy. She is known by the names Sessa D'Amelio and Vanessa D'Amelio. Vanessa lives in the Bay Area with her English husband an artist in his own right, psychedelic club promoter, and technology executive.