Esto No Tiene Nombre – Talkback with Denice Frohman & Suhaly Bautista-Carolina
Esto No Tiene Nombre – Talkback with Denice Frohman & Suhaly Bautista-Carolina
📍 Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente | 🎭 May 16, 2025
This video documents the post-performance conversation between writer/performer Denice Frohman and Suhaly Bautista-Carolina from the LGBTQ+ Museum, following the presentation of Esto No Tiene Nombre—a one-woman show that brings to life the oral histories of Latina lesbian elders.
Directed and co-created by Alex Torra, and featuring projections by Nia Benjamin, the play unfolds as a series of intimate, powerful vignettes tracing stories of activism, identity, and desire—from pre-Stonewall police raids to transformative moments of love and resistance. The piece draws from archival interviews conducted by Frohman as part of I See My Light Shining: Oral Histories of Our Elders, a year-long project amplifying the voices of Latina lesbian elders in New York City. The talkback explores the role of memory, intergenerational storytelling, and the creative process behind translating oral history into performance. A project curated by Jacqueline Woodson, author and 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Inspired by Esto No Tiene Nombre, the first Latina lesbian magazine, founded in the 1990s by Tatiana de la Tierra.
Filmed by: Julia Mitchem with www.sageusa.org