Noemi Zeigler’s
The Madeline Minx Cabaret:
Still Not Domesticated
One Night Only!
The Marsh Berkeley Cabaret
May 14, 2026
Saturday at 7:30pm
Written & Performed by Noemi Zeigler
Dramaturgy: David Ford
Coaching: Jill Vice
Choreography: Christina Morales Hemenway
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $25 General Seating | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
70 minutes | No Intermission | Ages 13+
(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
Madeline Minx belts, dances, hot flashes, and resurrects her 90s pop star ambitions. Raised on MTV and big feelings, she revisits homemade VHS music videos, near brushes with fame, and the stubborn belief that the spotlight might still be waiting.
There’s just one problem. Her blunt, larger-than-life mother has opinions about all of it.
Blending storytelling, stand-up, original songs, iconic pop covers, and lively audience interactions, this fast-moving solo show invites audiences to laugh, sing along, and celebrate the beautiful chaos of chasing a dream that refuses to die.
Created and performed by Noemi Zeigler, the show debuted at Rogue Festival in Fresno, where audiences called it “bursting with energy,” “sharp humor with emotional bite,” and “bold, funny, and delivered with chutzpah.” It was also highlighted as a Rogue Festival pick to watch by the Munro Review.
Zeigler previously brought her acclaimed solo show You’ve Been Served to The Marsh in San Francisco, the Rogue Festival in Fresno, the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, and the Edmonton Fringe Festival, earning praise such as “wild swings between outrage and vulnerability” from award-winning playwright Tim Mooney and “well written… full of perceptive, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking details” from the Winnipeg Free Press.
Artist Biography
Noemi Zeigler is a storyteller who finds the comedy in life’s missteps. She once hoped a nose job would get her invited to the high school prom, and learned that expecting certain results is a little too on the nose. Since then, she’s been turning outsider experiences, misadventures, and near-misses into darkly comedic, music-driven work that explores female identity, sexuality, and power.
She earned her MFA in Film Directing from the American Film Institute and has screened her films and music videos at South by Southwest, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Caostica in Spain, and the SF Jewish Film Festival. Her feature screenplay What Do You Thinx of Madeline Minx? won awards at Broad Humor and Female Eye Film Festivals, was a Sundance Screenwriters Lab finalist, and was performed in a staged reading with Kathleen Turner. Her short documentary Get Pushy screened at SF Doc Fest and was featured in Film Threat.
Zeigler shares her love of storytelling through teaching Film and Video at UCLA Extension, Cal State University East Bay, and Laney College. Her solo work includes You’ve Been Served, performed at The Marsh in San Francisco, the Rogue Festival in Fresno, and the Winnipeg and Edmonton Fringe Festivals, as well as multimedia performances at New Langton Arts, Media Archeology Festival, and the Installation, Performance, and Interactivity Festival in Santa Fe.
Nina Wise’s performances have garnered seven Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle Awards, and she has received three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and four from the Marin Arts Council. Her stories and articles have appeared widely; her book, A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life, was published in 2002 by Broadway Books. In addition to performing, Wise teaches and lectures. She has been a guest at numerous universities, including the University of Southern California, UC Santa Cruz, Stanford University, and the University of Wisconsin. She has a substantial following of private students, across the county, and regularly offers courses at Esalen Institute. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, she is a teaching affiliate of Spirit Rock Mediation Center.
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