Verbatim Salon Samples

The Verbatim Salon is a monthly public event where actors share stories from interviews recorded with people interacting with the US immigration system. These stories are performed using an in-ear verbatim technique. Actors listen in real time to the recordings via headphones as they speak the words aloud in front of the audience.

In the samples below, two different actors share parts of the same person's story: A Latino man who came to the US very young, and didn't discover he was undocumented until he was in High School.

In this first clip he describes his first memories of his parents when he arrives to the US and the confusion of being left behind while they tried to build a life.

In this clip, he describes the vulnerability he's felt in recent months and how his commitment to his family drives his desire to keep going.

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