While clearing her canyoneering brother’s garage, a young woman embarks on a psychedelic quest through redrock, time, and her own memory.

The house is being sold. The garage is overflowing. Ari has til morning to clean it out. As she excavates the dusty clutter of decades, she is drawn deeper and deeper into the past; up the steep escarpments of remembrance, and down into the dangerous defiles of the long-forgotten. Part neo-western, part environmentalist, and fully theatrical, Western Minerals and their Origins excavates our relationship with geology and the geology of our relationships.

Initially appearing at The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival in 2024 (Winner, Best of Fringe), Western Minerals has continued evolve and mutate as it has migrated to bigger stages and larger audiences. Starting with Salt Lake Acting Company as part of the Making Space for Artists Program in 2025, and the UtahPresents Stagedoor Series in 2026, each production has enjoyed sold-out houses and rave critical reviews.