My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar - Andrade, Valentina; Alvarado, Elizabeth; Ross-Williams, Tommy
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This is just me joining the family business exposing massive global injustice. Latinx Women from South London take centre stage and dare you to call them invisible. Vogue balls. When four different worlds collide, identity, history and status become the driving forces to unveiling the biggest money laundering scandal in history. Confetti. From not having a box to tick to challenging toxic stereotypes, as Alejandra, Lucia, Honey and Catalina risk everything to expose a multinational bank, they confront the audience with what it means to be both Londoner and Latinx. Chihuahua. My Uncle Is Not…mehr

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This is just me joining the family business exposing massive global injustice. Latinx Women from South London take centre stage and dare you to call them invisible. Vogue balls. When four different worlds collide, identity, history and status become the driving forces to unveiling the biggest money laundering scandal in history. Confetti. From not having a box to tick to challenging toxic stereotypes, as Alejandra, Lucia, Honey and Catalina risk everything to expose a multinational bank, they confront the audience with what it means to be both Londoner and Latinx. Chihuahua. My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar relishes in the seen and unseen of communities and systems so insidiously hidden. Co-Created by Valentina Andrade, Elizabeth Alvarado, Lucy Wray & Tommy Ross-Williams, and rooted in the lives and experiences of Valentina Andrade & Elizabeth Alvarado, this edition was published to coincide with the Brixton House production in London, June 2023.
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Valentina Andrade is an activist and campaigner. She was originally born in Bogotá, Colombia, and is an alumni of The Advocacy Academy. In 2017, Valentina launched a campaign in parliament to help more Latin American youth to get into university. Emphasising the invisibility Latinx students face, here she began her work with KCL. She is also is part of the core team for the Community Land Trust campaign to build genuinely affordable homes for people in South London and works for several small-scale charities. Valentina is passionate about encouraging academic achievement in the Latinx community, she's planning to base her masters in media communications and journalism now that she's graduated from King's College London in 2022. Elizabeth Alvarado is an Ecuadorian activist and campaigner from South London studying at Royal Holloway. She was part of The Advocacy Academy fellowship from 2016-17 and since graduating has worked on the programme as a changemaker. She is passionate about drama and the arts and has been fighting for Latinx rights since she became an advocate. Tommy Ross-Williams is a theatre-maker, filmmaker, performer and activist. For five years they were Artistic Director of the political theatre company, Populace, which performed work in venues across the UK. As Creative Director of The Advocacy Academy, they focused on the intersection of art and social justice and developed My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar. They are actively involved in LGBT+ and Gender Equality activism. In 2017 Tom was featured in the Guardian as one of the 'young activists changing politics'. They were nominated for Best Actor at the 2017 Off West End Awards for their one-person show, RUN at The Bunker. Lucy Wray is a director and collaborative theatre-maker working across scripted and devised shows. Her work explores big political topics through intimate stories and encounters. She was shortlisted for the GENESIS Future Directors Award 2020 and RTST Sir Peter Hall Directing Award 2019. She was longlisted for the JMK Young Director Award 2019. She was Resident Director on A Taste of Honey for the National Theatre in the West End and on tour, and for The Tragedy of King Richard the Second at the Almeida. As Associate Director for METIS, Lucy makes interactive interdisciplinary performance projects, and facilitates workshops in the UK and internationally with diverse participant groups. She is a reader for the NT New Work Department and Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.