The Treasure of the Root
A housewarming. Boxes to unpack. And inside each one — a memory that won't stay buried.
El Tesoro de la Raíz follows Inés, a queer, first-generation Mexican American woman, as she moves into a new home and finds herself moving through the rooms of her own history.
Each object she unwraps unlocks a chapter — a devout Catholic childhood, a queer awakening, a theater life built in Los Angeles, and the quiet devastation of outgrowing the religious spaces that once held her.
Blending autobiographical storytelling, visual poetry, humor, and ritual.
What do you keep, what do you leave behind, and what do you build when the home you came from cannot hold all of who you are?
A story about radical self-acceptance as an act of love — for oneself, for ancestry, for the complicated faith that shaped us even as we grow beyond it.
It is intimate. It is funny. It is a reckoning. Currently in development, with the first public workshop reading coming in 2027.
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