In Front of Your Eyes 2026
A Festival of New Performance Presents
Sara Felder’s
Class Act
The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage Theater
August 12 at 7:00 pm & August 15 at 7:00 pm
Written & Performed by Sara Felder
Directed by Jael Weisman
Opener: Stacey Winn
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $35 General Seating | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
75 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
In Class Act, Sara turns her sharp wit, circus skills and Jewish queer lens to her life as a working-class kid from Brooklyn. She follows the money from her grandmother’s shtetl in Poland to her childhood community in Brighton Beach to the golden streets of San Francisco. Her warm and funny stories are punctuated with object-work and juggling routines to uncover the shame and desire that money can bring. Who knew that shattering the silence around money and class could be this much fun?
Artist Biography
Sara Felder, Performer and Writer
Sara Felder (she/they) is an Oakland-based performer and writer. Over the last 3 decades, she has created a body of work that juggles personal narrative, circus shtik and social justice. Highlights of Sara’s career include performing with Circuba in Cuba, opening for Joan Rivers in Philadelphia, touring her solo theatre shows, and being the script consultant for Dear San Francisco, a circus-theater show currently running at Club Fugazi in San Francisco.
Sara started their career as juggler and dancing gorilla with San Francisco’s Pickle Family Circus and went on to tour with Joel Grey’s Borscht Capades. They have also toured with Jugglers for Peace, the Women’s Circus and at Festivals of Jewish/Yiddish Culture all over the world. She has also earned fellowships and awards from many organizations including the California Arts Council to teach juggling/performance at San Quentin Prison and Vacaville Penitentiary, Leeway Transformation Award for her commitment to art and social change and the Arts in America’s “”Animating Democracy Initiative”” which used art to inspire civic dialogue about same-sex marriage in Anchorage, AK.
But she is most well-known for her solo theatre performances and plays. Using her signature style of addressing important social issues with humor, grace and circus routines, her solo shows have tackled such topics as a Jewish lesbian wedding (June Bride,) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Out of Sight,) grief (A Queer Divine) and mental illness (Melancholy, A Comedy.) Their most popular play, June Bride, toured to 35 cities and encouraged the grass-roots conversation on same-sex marriage before the topic hit national headlines.
Sara has a long history with The Marsh. She started performing in 1989 at The Marsh at Hotel Utah at their Monday Night series (still going on at their current location!). That same year she premiered her full-length Beyond Brooklyn, the 2nd full-length show ever produced at The Marsh. She has performed ALL of her solo shows at The Marsh in various locations over the years. Long live The Marsh!
Presently, Sara teaches English at Diablo Valley College and Theater at The Marsh Berkeley. They live with their family in a tree-house by a lake in Oakland.
Opener
Stacey Winn
I performed excerpts from Terroir both in the 2024 IFOYE Festival as well as at a workshop with Placer Rep, and my earlier solo work, Sandwiched, was presented as part of the Marsh International Solo Fest in 2022. Some of my favorite roles include: Abigail in The Crucible, Fred in Once Upon a Mattress, Poopay in Communicating Doors, Alice in You Can’t Take it With You, and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. I’ve also done a whole bunch of improv and sketch comedy.
Piece Description – Terroir
It’s hard to make friends when you’re in the Lord’s Army! Terroir is inspired by my experiences growing up within fundamentalist Christianity, where I learned that demons were real and it was my job to save the world. And not have sex, obviously.
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