(Un)Documents
An Experience L.A. Event

(Un)Documents will run at the Los Angeles Theatre Center from October 12 through November 20. To attend a performance on your own, visit latinotheaterco.org for more information.

ADMISSION:
Admission is free and open to current USC students only, who must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited and advance registration is required. Check-in for the event will begin at 6:30 p.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 7:15 p.m. and return to campus at 10:30 p.m. Dinner will be provided at check-in.

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DESCRIPTION:
Through the Experience L.A. series of events, Visions and Voices takes USC students on trips throughout the city to experience Los Angeles’s dynamic cultural landscape firsthand.

With a single phrase, you can give up your country. With a single signature, you can tear a family apart. With a single word, you can learn to transform.

USC students are invited to experience (Un)Documents, Jesús I. Valles’ award-winning solo show exploring life, love, education, family, and the complexities of queer, immigrant identities. 

In their first full-length solo show, award-winning actor and poet journeys across both sides of a river with two names, moving between languages to find their place as a child, a lover, a teacher, and a sibling in a nation that demands sacrifice at the altar of citizenship. In doing so, they create a new kind of documentation written with anger, fierce love, and the knowledge that what makes us human can never be captured on a government questionnaire. 

Directed by Rudy Ramirez, the show received its initial workshop at The VORTEX in 2018 as part of FuturX: A New Festival of Latinx Performance. (Un)Documents won three 2018 B. Iden Payne awards for Outstanding Original Script, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama, and Outstanding Direction of a Drama, and was nominated for Outstanding Production of a Drama. (Un)Documents was also presented as part of the 2019 OUTsider Fest artists showcase and featured at the Latinx Theatre Commons’s Sin Fronteras Festival. (Un)Documents returned to The VORTEX in May of 2019 for a two-week encore and received five nominations from the Austin Critics Table Association, including the Mark David Cohen Award for Best New Play, and was a featured performance at the 2021 ATHE conference.

Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Co-sponsored by the LGBTQ+ Student Center and the USC First Generation Plus Success Center.