Confessions of a Boba Liberalist
Nita has some things she needs to get off her chest.
Using anecdotes from her own life experiences, come on a conversational journey through Nita's relationship with her own cultural identity. From the school yard at lunch time to having drinks with friends, she's often found herself navigating what it means to exist in a predominantly white society as a Person of Colour? Asian? Latina? Bi-Racial? Does it even matter what she thinks? Maybe it’s the way the world perceives her that shapes the way she perceives herself...
Bubble tea, K-pop, a few arguments with people over how to pronounce the names of cultural foods, and a bid to prove she is in fact NOT a Boba Liberal, "Confessions of a Boba Liberalist" is an answer (or not) to the dreaded question: 'Where are you from?'.
Presented by: Juanita Navas-Nguyen
Juanita is a passionate actor and creative who graduated from Adelaide College of the Arts in 2020 with an Advanced Diploma of Acting. Making her main stage debut with the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Juanita appeared in Eureka Day (2021). Soon after she was in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (STCSA/Queensland Theatre, 2022) before starring as Zoe in STCSA’s production of Single Asian Female (2022). Other productions she has been a part of include the national tour of Bluey’s Big Play (HVK Productions, 2021), New World Coming (CRAM Collective, 2021), and Theatre Republic’s incubator project Future:Present 2.0 (2023). Having Vietnamese and Colombian heritage, Juanita is interested in creating new, inclusive work representative of the diverse world we live in.
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