Confessions of a Boba Liberalist Workshop: Creating from Personal Experience and Following Impulses

Join Juanita Navas-Nguyen in this hands-on workshop to learn about the creative process behind developing Confessions of a Boba Liberalist as a biographical piece.

Focusing on impulse work and writing through stream of consciousness we find the gems within our individual experiences that bring us together as a collective. What makes us who we are? How do we view our positions within the world we live in?

Wear comfortable clothes you can move in, bring a bottle of water and of course bring yourselves with an open mind and willingness to simply create.

About the show: Confessions of a Boba Liberalist

Do we create our identities or are our identities projected onto us? How do we find a sense of community and belonging when we feel like we don’t fit in?

Join Nita on a conversational journey as she talks her way through her experience of living as a Person of Colour in a predominantly white Australia. She shares not only stories from her real life but her snacks with the audience too – she does have a perpetual need to feed people after all!

Bubble tea, K-pop, how to pronounce “pho” – Nita has some things she needs to confess.

About Juanita Navas-Nguyen

She/Her

Juanita is an actor and theatre maker based on Kaurna Country in Adelaide, South Australia. Since graduating with an Advanced Diploma of Acting from Adelaide College of the Arts in 2020 she has appeared in multiple works by State Theatre Company South Australia including Eureka Day (2021), Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (STCSA/Queensland Theatre, 2022), and Single Asian Female (2022).

Her first independently self-written and produced show Confessions of a Boba Liberalist debuted as part of the 2024 Adelaide Fringe season supported by ActNow Theatre; a deeply personal work exploring identity and belonging as a person of colour in a predominantly white society. Other credits include The Story of Chi (Terrapin/Contemporary Asian Australian Performance, 2024), Po Po’s Big Fat Surprise Wedding (Singapore Repertory Theatre, 2024), Grug (Windmill Theatre Company, 2024), Future:Present 2.0 (Theatre Republic, 2023), and Bluey’s Big Play (HVK Productions/Windmill Theatre Co/BBC, 2021).