Chair 01 · Writing
The bilingual writers
One English and one Spanish writer draft each episode in parallel, trading pages until the two editions can stand alone and still land on the same final line.
Dos redactores, una sola historia.
Our account / Nuestra historia
Why a city needs a serial
Field tape comes before scripting. The streets are interviewed first.
Urbanovela began from a plain observation: places are usually described in brochures and remembered in stories. A tourism board can list forty attractions and still leave a visitor with nothing to repeat at dinner. A serial gives them something to repeat.
We are based in Nutley, in the part of New Jersey where Spanish and English share the same stoops, shops and radio dials. That is why every series we make is bilingual by design. Each edition is written in its own language by a native writer, so a joke or a rhythm is never lost to translation.
Clients tend to be tourism boards, developers and local brands that have a story older than their marketing. We bill by the series, at a fixed scope, and we put the finished masters in your hands. What we make for you is yours; we keep nothing back for ourselves.
Escribimos en dos idiomas porque la ciudad también habla en dos.