My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar [Paperback]

Winner of a OneOff Special Award for 2023at the Offies Awards 2024
Finalist for Best Production (Plays) at the Offies Awards 2024

This is just me joining the family business exposing massive global injustice.

Latinx Women from South London take centre stage and dare you to call them invisible.

Vogue balls.

When four different worlds collide, identity, history and status become the driving forces to unveiling the biggest money laundering scandal in history.

Confetti.

From not having a box to tick to challenging toxic stereotypes, as Alejandra, Lucia, Honey and Catalina risk everything to expose a multinational bank, they confront the audience with what it means to be both Londoner and Latinx.

Chihuahua.

My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobarrelishes in the seen and unseen of communities and systems so insidiously hidden.

Co-Created by Valentina Andrade, Elizabeth Alvarado, Lucy Wray & Tommy Ross-Williams, and rooted in the lives and experiences of Valentina Andrade & Elizabeth Alvarado, this edition was published to coincide with the Brixton House production in London, June 2023.

Valentina Andradeis an activist and campaigner. She was originally born in Bogot?, Colombia, and is an alumni of The Advocacy Academy. In 2017, Valentina launched a campaign in parliament to help more Latin American youth to get into university. Emphasising the invisibility Latinx students face, here she began her work with KCL. She is also is part of the core team for the Community Land Trust campaign to build genuinely affordable homes for people in South London and works for several small-scale charities. Valentina is passionate about encouraging academic achievement in the Latinx community, she's planning to base her masters in media communications and journalism now that she's graduated from King's College London in 2022.

Elizabeth Alvaradois an lS1