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A scene with a pink and purple color scheme. An arch made of balloons with a sign reading "Novelas de Niñas" frames Liz and Bow in colorful, fantasy-like costumes. The background features a fantastical landscape with projections of a pink sky, milk jugs, burning money, and a parked car. Surrounding the figures are playful elements like oversized baby bottles, a drone with a party hat, scattered balloons, and a unicorn cow figurine on a jet ski, set in a decorated banquet hall.

models: Liz Ferrer and Maripussssy (Bow Ty) | collage made by LIZN’BOW

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LIZN'BOW - Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty

models: Liz Ferrer and Maripussssy (Bow Ty) | collage made by LIZN’BOW

Location
Miami, FL
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Project Title
Novelas de Niñas
Fiscal Year Awarded
2024
Grant or Program
National Theater Project Creation & Touring Grant

Novelas de Niñas is an interactive bilingual soap opera set within a quince where music and storytelling explore the intersections of femme, queer, and Latinx identity. Produced by our media collaborative LIZN’BOW, Novelas de Niñas is a feminist, musical soap opera. Part installation, part interactive theatre, this project recreates the elaborate reception of a fiesta de quinceaños—the momentous event announcing a 15-year-old’s transition into adulthood. In this reinvention of a party that centers the performance of acceptable femininity, audience members sit alongside actors in an immersive drama. Set in an outrageously bedecked banquet hall, Novelas de Niñas provides the food, live music, and drama expected at any significant rite of passage. Stories inspired by the personal experiences of femme, queer, and Latinx people materialize throughout the evening in the form of projected mini-telenovelas and live theatrics.

Land Acknowledgement: Taino

A lively birthday celebration with a group of people gathered around a table at Bowery Poetry Club. In the center, a man and a woman are blowing out candles on a colorful cake while others cheer and celebrate. The scene is vibrant, with confetti flying in the air and party decorations visible, including pink and blue napkins, plates, and utensils. The background features an ornate, pink-lit wall with detailed patterns, adding to the festive atmosphere. Liz and Bow are holding microphones.

(from left to right) Liz Ferrer, Efrain Del Hierro, Maripussssy (Bow Ty), MISCELVNEA | photo by Walter Wlodarczyk

A performance on a small stage with five performers in colorful and eclectic costumes. The two central performers, Liz and Bow, hold a microphone, one wearing a dress and the other wearing a tutu over pants, while others around them are dressed in shiny, silver pants and bikini star shaped tops. One performer off stage is in drag, wearing a sequin pink dress. The background is an ornate, pink-lit wall with detailed patterns, enhancing the dramatic and artistic atmosphere.

(from left to right) Carles Garcia GOD, MISCELVNEA, Liz Ferrer, Maripussssy (Bow Ty), REBE_CA | photo by Walter Wlodarczyk

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