Jessica Bauman

 

The Frontera Project is an interactive, bilingual theater experience created and performed by a company of Mexican and US artists. We use theater, music, movement and play to actively engage the audience in a compassionate, often joyous conversation about life at the US/Mexico Border.

 

The Frontera Project began when I got a TCG travel grant to spend some time with the amazing artists at Tijuana Hace Teatro in Tijuana, Mexico. Spending time in Tijuana made me realize how little I – or most people who do not live there – understand about the Border and the lives of the people who live there. I came away inspired to share what I had seen, to be an ambassador for Border stories to people like me, who may not know what they don’t know.

 

THT Artistic Director Ramón Verdugo and I have collaborated for years with a company of actors to create The Frontera Project. Since the fall of 2021, we have been performing in theaters and at universities across the US.