ABSTRACT
In 2019, Teatro Luna wrote, directed, and produced Talking While Female and Other Dangerous Acts for Audible Originals. The ensemble was inspired to create this podcast by a storytelling night held at their physical space in the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los Angeles, CA. Rooted in the Latinx experience, Talking While Female and Other Dangerous Acts builds from Teatro Luna’s devised work as a theatre ensemble, creating original stories from Latinxs and performed by Latinxs. Building on the work of Chicana/Latina feminists, Sound Studies, and Latino/a Communication and Performance Studies, this chapter argues that Talking While Female and Other Dangerous Acts creates a soundscape of Latinx Theatre through the voices, sounds and stories of Latinx storytellers across the world through a predominantly heteronormative digital content space and platform. Ultimately, Teatro Luna’s production of the digital content constituted a sonic movida to continue to remake what 21st-century Latinxs sound like. By taking up sonic space, Teatro Luna’s performative acts interrupt and constitute another track of resistance to traditional representations by engaging through sound.
