
Original Works
Tus Tías specializes in creating original takes on familiar cultural touchstones that are inspired by our similar and different experiences as Latinas- one from the U.S. and one from Mexico. We bring the pocha and the paisa in the forefront of our work!
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The Invocation of Selena
The Invocation of Selena (TIOS) is a sketch comedy, cabaret-style show that explores how cultural icon Selena Quintanilla Pérez continues to inspire and motivate Latine people, particularly women and the LGBTQIA community. Through character monologues, drag, choreographed dance numbers, audience participation, moments of song, and more, TIOS celebrates cultural duality while examining when, why, and how we call on Santa Selena in our everyday lives. At the top of the show, Selena is literally invoked and, in this case, she is a larger-than-life drag queen who guides the cast on this journey to help them find their way in a society that desires to put them in a box. The show also uses biographical information about the artist as well as the 1997 Gregory Nava film Selena as source material to create characters and scenes that tease out our diaspora as Mexicans, Americans, Mexican Americans, pochos, Latines, queers… “and it’s exhausting!”
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"Wally Tianguis"
This new stage production currently in development brings audiences the beloved and insightful Wally Tianguis. Wally Tianguis uses their deep connection to astrology to explore personalities, look into the future, and understand the meaning life while also fighting the haters who say astrology is just pura mierda.
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"Curling Comadres"
A short film in the works that follows a few hard working comadres who turn their neighborhood competition of quien barre la calle mejor all the way to becoming an unorthodox team with hopes to qualify for the winter Olympics.