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)
Livestream on 8/15 @7pm
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, they have created a body of work that juggles personal narrative, circus shtik and social justice. Using these elements, they have written and performed 5 solo shows. The most popular, June Bride, about a Jewish lesbian wedding – which toured to 40 venues across the country – activated grass-roots conversations on same-sex marriage even before the topic reached national headlines. Highlights of Sara’s career include touring with Joel Grey in his Borscht Capades, performing with Circuba in Cuba, opening for Joan Rivers in Philadelphia and touring her solo theatre shows. She presently teaches theatre classes at the Marsh Berkeley, and is the script consultant for Dear San Francisco, a circus-theater show currently running at Club Fugazi in North Beach. Sara performed at the Monday Night Marsh in 1989 – and what a pleasure it is to come home again!
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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