In Front of Your Eyes 2026
A Festival of New Performance Presents
Lauren Mayer’s
I Didn’t Come From Your Rib (You Came From My Vagina)
The Marsh Berkeley Cabaret Theater
August 21 at 7:30 pm & August 23 at 4:00 pm
Written & Performed by Lauren Mayer
Opener: Judith Linzer
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $35 General Seating | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
60 minutes | No Intermission
(Please do not bring infants to the show)
Livestream on 8/23 @4pm
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance.
Additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
Show Description
As a woman in her late 60s who grew up with a feminist mother (who had an abortion before they were legal), Lauren is shocked at how rights she thought were established are now under attack. But Lauren responds to this with humor as well as righteous outrage. This show uses a mix of her own feminist journey, her mother’s history, and tunes including the title song, “If Men Could Get Pregnant”, as well as “Hormone Hell”, “Sweet Home Talibama”, and more.
Artist Biography
Lauren Mayer, Writer and Performer
Lauren has performed various solo shows at venues around the Bay Area, including Marsh Rising/MNM and numerous JCCs and synagogues (“Don’t Mind Me, I’ll Just Sit Here In The Dark” and “Dear Internet Trolls”), and at Hillbarn Theater (“Psycho Super Mom”). She is a 5-time recipient of the SF Cabaret Gold Award, a phi beta kappa graduate of Yale University, and the creator of weekly topical comedy song videos that have earned millions of views and almost as many trolls.
Opener
Judith Linzer
Judith Linzer is a clinical psychologist who started doing solo performance in 2015 and hasn’t stopped since. She has been exploring her growing understanding of how her conditioning as an American Jew had skewed her view of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. She works in the field of high-conflict divorce, so she knows about hatred, intractable conflict and emotional violence. Might those skills be transferable? She has been “waging peace” with Palestinians and Jews, spending time in the West Bank. Her performances are serious yet playful, and she hopes that while being entertained, you will learn and think while crying and laughing.
Piece Description – Do I have to hate you in order to love me, or should I just hate everyone?
In this excerpt of a full-length piece, Judith unpacks her Jewish American conditioning that taught her she was a victim and that hating back was her best line of defense against Christian anti-Semitism. In her childhood, she was treated cruelly by her mother, wondering how people could be so mean to one another with no one seeming to notice or help. She started to question what she had been taught about Israel/Palestine daring to wonder … are we possibly the perps here? It’s messy, complicated, tragic and… funny! Can we please just stop being so mean?
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