A show created and produced by Sister Outsider Entertainment
Incubated at Chica Luna Productions

“Your silence will not protect you…” 
— Audre Lorde

PANDORA’S is a multi media theater show that integrates theater and film to create a series of ten dramatized monologues that provide voice to the Latina/o LGBTQI experience.  It is our hopes that the show will provide herstory for our queer experience while weaving a complex web toward hope for the future.

Much like the initial intentions of the TV series L Word, PANDORA’S seeks to stage one lens on the queer Latina experience which in not represented in popular culture (not even on the L Word). In order to reach a broad audience, we have expanded our show to even include a Filipino, bringing our shared colonial history with Spain to the stage. Artists have been commissioned from both coasts (New York and California) who wrote about their various Latino identities (Chicano, Afro-Caribbean, South American, light-skinned Latinas, being a Filipino that is always confused for Latina, ages, Latinas across socio-economic boundaries, etc.). Each monologue deals with a specific queer identity such as Bisexual, Lesbian, Questioning, Intersex and Transgender (Male to Female and Female to Male).

PANDORA’S will premiere on June 30-July 6, 2008 at the Theatre Row on 42nd Street, at the heart of New York’s theater district. Each night we will be entertaining 100 audience members— over 1000 people will see this show. And we are organizing an exhaustive media and outreach campaign for this show that will reach well over 20,000 people.

Along with the theater project, an Ending Homo-Hatred Outreach Toolkit will be distributed to audience members during the show. The Toolkit will be in the form of a booklet and will consist of methodologies for combating internal and external homophobia, organizations that can be excellent resources for outreach and other information, a list of articles/essays, books, etc., and workshops that can be attended in order to gain more information. Everyday people and organizations will be able to use this toolkit to create a space for artistic freedom and justice for LGBTQI communities of color.

POSTCARDS FROM MEDELLÍN
By Sandra Alvarez
A Colombian woman struggles to convince her girlfriend to go back with her to Medellín.

PASSING
By Janis Astor del Valle
A Puerto Rican transgender male in transition has second thoughts about going through sex reassignment surgery.

ID, Please!
By Tina Bartolome
An underage Filipina always confused for Chicana tries to enter the nightclub only to discover that her closeted aunt is working the door.

CONFIDENTIALITY
By Jasmine Colón
When the parents of a teenage patient threaten to send her to "ex-gay" reparative therapy, her counselor finds herself caught between her professional code of ethics and the truth of her own experience.

THE BORDER MADE ME GAY
By Fernanda Coppel
On her 21st birthday, a college student yearns for the mother who returned to Mexico without her.

BE ALL YOU CAN BE
By Deya García and Sofía Quintero
On the eve before she is to report for a second tour in Iraq, a Dominican army sergeant decides to go AWOL.

TWENTY-FOUR
By Aurora Guerrero
Just as she is set to marry her boyfriend of thirteen years, a Chicana finally reveals her love for her best friend.

BODY HUNGER
By Elisha Miranda
A happily married bisexual Puerto Rican woman confesses her hunger for the touch and love of a woman.

CHEWY - n-- JOCELYN 4EVA
By Lissette J. Norman
A runaway teen must choose between the homophobia of her Dominican homeland or that of the streets of New York City.

MANGO BREAD
By L. L. Gimeno
A Puerto Rican/Chicano (FTM) man grapples with feminism and male privilege as he seduces his lover with his culinary talents.