Introducing The
Acacia Tree Collective
Coming Soon…
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Telling the true stories of five immigrants traveling from India to New York fighting to find an anchor in their new home.
Five scenes and monologues based on true immigrant stories followed by a Q&A session with the author of the book, Swarupa Rao, & playwright of the adaptation, Niranjani Reddi.
In partnership with Jwala Productions. November 25, 2025 at Caveat
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A travel docuseries where a group of friends explore what friendship means to people around the globe. Japan, 2026
An NYC-based travel & theatre collective rooted In spreading empathy through courageous storytelling. A home for showcases, travel-stories, short-films, inter-cultural creative residencies, and so much more!
For two years, I’ve known I wanted to combine my passions for travel and theatre and share with the world why these two things, stitched together, form my heart and its purpose of connecting with others. I knew I liked the name Acacia, but out of all the worlds and phenomena I’ve experienced through travel, why an Acacia tree? I guess I was searching for the intention, and then I got this sign: I was flipping through a random book about trees in the East Village on a random afternoon, and the first page I flipped to was about the African Acacia. The passage detailed the importance of looking out for your friends, just as an Acacia tree does.
Then I received another sign in Maui, when I saw the name sprawled across a storefront, moments after feeling heartbroken because someone told me that I should maybe try and get a “real job” instead. It felt like a reminder from the universe to not let outside distractions get in the way of what I was working so hard towards.
The most recent sign was during a friend's exhibition on love. I was shopping around in the attached vendor market, where I noticed a pair of earrings I knew I had to get for a dear friend. It was no longer a coincidence that the woman selling me these earrings was named Acacia. I told her everything and why her name meant so much to me. She said, “I give you permission to use my name,” and it was at that moment I realized this was the whole point.
I was on this journey to figure out why something that was so fleeting was that important to me- that I would name an entire company after it- and it’s because a fleeting moment is a glimpse into a whole reality for someone else, and it is in the eyes of the beholder to carve out time and space to care about something that, on the surface, feels like a foreign concept, but in reality, is just a good friend- just like an Acacia tree.
Stay tuned for more!