Date: Monday, January 27th | Doors: 6:30pm | Performance followed by
talkback: 7–8:30pm | $20 general admission 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. 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. United Palace of Cultural Arts
presents Literature to Life 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. 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.
LITERATURE TO LIFE (LTL) is a performance-based literacy program that
presents professionally staged verbatim adaptations of American
literary classics. LTL’s mission is to perform great books that
inspire young people to read and become authors of their own lives.
LTL was founded more than three decades ago as the educational program
of the American Place Theatre. Now an independent organization, this
mighty collective of artists and educators brings the voices of
diverse authors to thousands of students and audiences nationwide,
giving them the tools to become the empowered “voices worth
hearing” of our future. www.literaturetolife.org | @lit2life
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