In Front of Your Eyes 2026
A Festival of New Performance Presents
Dev Cuny’s
Assigned at Birth:
My Funeral Part 1
The Marsh Berkeley Theater
August 19 at 7:00 pm & August 22 at 1:00 pm
Written & Performed by Dev Cuny
Directed by Joyful Raven
Opener: Michelle Moghtader
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $35 General Seating | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
60 minutes | No Intermission
(Please do not bring infants to the show)
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance.
Additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
Show Description
What if the story you were given about your life… wasn’t yours? In this raw, darkly funny, and deeply human 60-minute solo performance, Dev invites audiences to their own funeral — a ritual decades in the making. Raised in a charismatic Christian home where salvation, gender, and destiny were tightly scripted, Dev takes us on a journey through faith, shame, desire, survival, and ultimately, the fight to live truthfully. Blending music, storytelling, and physical performance, Assigned at Birth explores what it means to be handed an identity — and what it costs to break free from it. This is not a story about dying. It’s a story about what it takes to finally live.
Artist Biography
Dev Cuny, Theater Artist, Storyteller and Facilitator
Dev Cuny (they/them) is a Bay Area–based theater artist, storyteller, and facilitator whose work blends dark humor, music, and autobiographical narrative. A former minister and out trans person, their work grapples with queerness, religion, masculinity, and self-construction. Their solo show, Assigned at Birth, uses a funeral as its frame, moving fluidly between comedy and rupture. Dev is also a TEDx speaker on belonging and identity, bringing emotional precision and relational depth to both stage and screen. Outside of theater, they work in restorative justice and trauma-informed systems, coaching trainers and facilitators in storytelling and designing spaces that center humanity and make
transformation possible.
Opener
Michelle Moghtader
Michelle Moghtader is a writer and performer based in San Francisco. She’s a former journalist who once covered Iran and the Middle East. Her work is character-driven, and interested in the politics of family, which she explores by becoming everyone in hers.
Piece Description – Saffron Confessions
Saffron Confessions is a one-woman comedy about an Iranian-American who’s never been to Iran, the family who survived it and the questionable idea of going back to find out who she is.
Set a mehmooni, an Iranian house party, where she will never leave hungry, but will leave judged. As family and friends gather, everyone has an opinion. She must navigate the voices of an image-obsessed mother, a patriotic father, an exiled general clinging to vanished glory and a grandmother with no filter. It’s a show about heritage, hunger, and wanting the one thing your whole family ran from.
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