untitled TYA BIPOC SUPERHERO PROJECT (2023-2025)
a play in progress by Mara Palma
Premise of the show
When Evangelina, a Filipina-American almost-8th grader with a knack for cyphers, receives an encoded letter from her grandfather at his funeral, she races to solve it before her mom sends her away to boarding school…forever! Evangelina soon discovers that there’s a lot about her Lolo’s life that he never told her, secrets that Evangelina’s mom will do anything to keep in the past. Evangelina struggles against increasingly harder letters to translate and an increasingly suspicious mom, and finds herself caught between safety and legacy.
partnership with BOCON
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My Role as playwright
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“Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.”
— Ken Liu
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Let’s bring this play to life.
mara@marapalma.com
(255) 352-6258
