Literature to Life: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Saturday, January 18
2-4 pm ET
in-person event; open to mentees, mentors and members. Required for Playwriting.
Girls Write Now presents
Literature to Life’s stage presentation of
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
By Erika L. Sánchez
Performed by Elizabeth Raquel Ramirez
Adapted and Directed by Ana Maria Jomolca
Based on the novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, © 2017
Production produced in partnership with Freedom Reads.
Literature to Life adapts Erika L. Sánchez’s YA novel as their newest title in their Signature Performance series. This title will be co-produced in partnership with Freedom Reads, the only organization in the nation transforming the experience of incarceration by opening libraries in prison housing facilities. Freedom Reads was founded by Reginald Dwayne Betts in 2020. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter takes place in modern day Chicago. The novel focuses on the idea of finding one’s own identity, and breaking free from societal, cultural, and familial expectations.
This production will take place at
Girls Write Now Headquarters
247 W 37th Street, Suite 10
To attend this event, create a Girls Write Now account and register for this event through the portal.
Meet the Teaching Artists
Annaya Baynes
Annaya Baynes (she/they) is excited to join the Girls Write Now team as a Fellow after being a mentee. They recently graduated from Spelman College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and French. As an undergraduate, she worked on Spelman’s social justice podcast, The Blue Record, and the reproductive justice-oriented podcast Black Feminist Rants. Annaya has interned at various publishing houses, including Penguin Random House, Macmillan, and The Feminist Press. They have a deep love for literature and film. In her free time, she enjoys baking.
Elizabeth Raquel Ramirez
Elizabeth Raquel Ramirez is a proud Hispanic actress from San Antonio, Texas. Her credits include In The Heights at Oklahoma City University and two award-winning shorts, Most Likely To and Dream Carriers. She is most known for her contribution to the HBOMax documentary Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020, produced by Tony Award winner Laura Benanti.
Ana Maria Jomolca
Ana Maria Jomolca studied Film and Creative Writing at The New School and received her MFA in Fiction at Hunter College. She’s been published in The Sun Magazine, Cosmonauts, Avenue (an online, monthly literary journal run by women and non-binary folks dedicated to elevating and amplifying underrepresented voices) New York Press, National Geographic, and Glee magazine. Her short story, “Twin Bed,” in Sisters: An Anthology is out now in bookstores. Her short film, “everygirl,” debuted at Tribeca Film Center and screened at Women in the Director’s Chair Film Festival (Chicago), The New Festival and BAM. TV appearances include: Broad City, ABC’s The Family, Orange is the New Black, 30 Rock, Flesh and Bone, DAREDEVIL, Without a Trace, The Jury (Barry Levinson /Tom Fontana), Law & Order: CI, SVU, Trial by Jury and Rescue Me. FILM: Janet Grillo’s, Jack of The Red Hearts, and Anya
This event is open to:
all mentees, all mentors and members
