The Menopause Show

March 7 & 8 at 5pm:
Marianne Shine, Suraya Keating, Anjali Sawhney & Special Guest Victoria Shaffer

March 14 at 5pm:
Suraya Keating, Lindsay Wood, Anjali Sawhney & Special Guest Merry Ross

March 15 at 5pm:
Marianne Shine, Suraya Keating, Anjali Sawhney & Special Guest Merry Ross

March 21  at 5pm:
Marianne Shine, Suraya Keating, Lindsay Wood, Anjali Sawhney

March 22  at 5pm:
Marianne Shine, Suraya Keating, Lindsay Wood, Anjali Sawhney

March 28 at 5pm:
Marianne Shine, Suraya Keating, Lindsay Wood & Special Guest Raina Satori

March 29 at 5pm:
Anjali Sawhney, Suraya Keating, Lindsay Wood & Special Guest Raina Satori  

CORE FOUR PERFORMERS

SURAYA KEATING  Director of The Menopause Show, Suraya Keating is a Drama Therapist and Expressive Arts Therapist, actress, theater director, playback theater performer, and mama devoted to the healing power of story, creativity, and embodied truth. Her work lives at the intersection of art, wellness, and social change. She helped develop Marin Shakespeare’s prison programs and co-founded its theater troupe for formerly incarcerated people, and has brought therapeutic arts to youth, hospitals, and in-patient psychiatric units. As founder of Soul Story Theater, Suraya guides actors and non-actors in transforming lived experience into performance—offering art as medicine, meaning, and collective healing. Suraya co-founded the Expressive Arts Mystery School, which trains artists, therapists, and educators in soulful, nature-based creative practices that support personal and cultural transformation. www.soulstorytheater.com

ANJALI SAWHNEY is a Certified Integral Life Coach, a trained International Leadership Embodiment Teacher, & certified somatic coach from the Strozzi Institute.  For 15 years, Anjali has been a leadership coach & facilitator serving non-profit, corporate, business, movement and educational change makers, teams and organizations. Anjali was born in South Asia and her lineage informs how she works with clients fostering an inclusive, warm, and depthful space. She loves working with untapped populations from those without homes to youth, and enjoys dancing to live music. Anjali is sometimes allowed to groove with her beloved young adult children, Aanika & Jai. 

MARIANNE SHINE, MA, LMFT, RDT, CHT is thrilled to be creating a powerful show with this fabulous group of women during these times. She teaches and directs Shakespeare at San Quentin Prison through Marin Shakespeare Co, and she is a board member for The Curtain Theatre that provides free summer Shakespeare in Mill Valley. She is a travel ambassador for Adventure Women, loves improv and has her own troupe Accidentally On Purpose. Check out Marianne’s Drama Therapy practice and her acting websites for more information. Enjoy the show!

LINDSAY WOOD A dynamic performer with decades of stage experience, Lindsay takes audiences on a hilarious and heartfelt journey in “Search for Libido.” Blending humor, heart, and raw honesty, she turns life’s hormonal twists into a captivating journey, proving that passion isn’t lost – it’s just hiding, waiting to be rediscovered. Lindsay and Suraya co-conceived The Menopause Show together while Lindsay was having a hot flash. Lindsay is also a Tiny Housing expert in the Bay Area. thetinyhomelady.com

SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMERS

February 28 & March 1

CARY CRONHOLM ROSE started her acting career in Chicago 24 years ago with The Second City, Improv Olympic, and Steppenwolf Theatre. She was the Associate Artistic Director and co-founder of Tides Theatre in SF. Currently, Cary is finishing up her Master’s in Counseling Psychology at CIIS and is on her way to becoming a Drama Therapist! Gratitude to BooBoo, Mom, R, K & K, Cassidy, Ellsworth, the Cosmic Coven, and this cast of inspirational women!

March 7 & 8

VICTORIA SHAFFER is a trailblazing fashion and costume designer, creative visionary, and storyteller with a career spanning over six decades. She is one of the first Black women costume designers credited on Broadway. Through her speaking, Victoria shares her journey from backstage to center stage—exploring creativity, resilience, faith, and legacy. Her stories inspire audiences to honor their gifts, persevere through challenges, and boldly claim their space.

March 14 & 15

MERRY ROSS is a Marriage Therapist, Drama Therapist, teacher, actor, director, supervisor and coach. She has a private practice in Oakland Ca. and has been a member of The Living Arts Playback Theatre Ensemble since 1992. Her show, “What’s My Age Again,” was performed in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz, NYC and London England. She has performed her current show, Therapy Fund in Berkeley, Philadelphia Fringe Festival and drama therapy conferences in Toronto and Latvia. Merry recently performed in “2 Women, 2 Mothers” as part of The Marsh Rising with Vicki Dello Joio.

March 21 & 22

ELAYNE KALILA DOUGHTY, MA, MFT, Actor, Dramatherapist, Ordained Priestess of the 13 Moon Mystery School, and the Rosa Mystica Mystery School. She has been acting & directing sacred theatre performances since her 20’s. Along with being the Dean and Founder of the Priestess Presence School of the Sacred Arts and + Temple which serves a sisterhood of over 100.000 women around the world, she trains, initiates and ordains women as modern day priestesses, ceremonialists and powerful feminine leaders in all walks of life. elaynekalila.com or PriestessPresence.com

March 28 & 29

RAINA SATORI is a dancer, Designer, MC and Comic. She’s the Captain and creator of the Shamanic Cheerleaders producer and star of the “Ridiculum Curriculum” spiritual satire stand up show, She’s been featured in the “More enlightened than you” show as well as “Stairway to Haven.” Raina is founder of The Improverse, a full activation of the muse through voice, movement, theater and comedy improvisation. RainaSatoriDesign.com

Dates TBA

https://www.dailycal.org/arts/theater/the-menopause-show-empowers-and-creates-community-at-the-marsh/article_bedc5217-e0c8-483a-a44e-6ceef8310c39.html