THE FRONTERA PROJECT

Our subject is La Frontera

Making that connection IS crossing a border

There are different ways to suffer, to laugh, to live and to die around The Wall.

In the spring of 2019, director Jessica Bauman received a grant from the Theater Communications Group to travel to the Tijuana/San Diego border for a creative residency with the Mexican company Tijuana Hace Teatro. Bauman is a community-engaged theater maker, director, and teacher. On the other side, THT, a wellknown company led by Ramón Verdugo and Jesús Quintero, invited a Tijuana playwright Bárbara Perrín and producer Natalia Escobedo to join the creative team.

Several months of workshops, rehearsals, and dealing with the restrictions due to the Covid-19, brought as a result, La Frontera Project, a bilingual theatrical experience performed by a cast of both U.S. and Mexican actors, using theater to actively engage the audience in a compassionate and joyous conversation about La Frontera.

In September 2020, The Frontera Project was part of the San Diego Rep LatinX New Play Festival, via Zoom. The play will be ready for its world premiere on September, in Touchstone Theater’s Festival Unbound in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.