Literature to Life: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

About the Event

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

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