Event

broken motherhood museum

broken motherhood museum, written and directed by Miriam Tabb, is a poetic installation theatre piece that exposes the deeply personal struggles women face throughout pregnancy and parenting. While experiencing this living exhibit, the audience is encouraged to engage with the characters as they make difficult, often nontraditional, and taboo choices regarding their bodies, lovers, children, and sexuality. broken motherhood museum is a play in which the audience is challenged to actively view and experience the burden of unrealistic expectations in motherhood we place on women and ourselves.

Miriam Tabb is a collaborating artist-in-residence with NuAFrikan Theatre NuWorks series. She is an emerging actress, poet, spoken word artist, and playwright. Her poetry in performance has been featured at the Bowery Poetry Club, Nuyorican Poet's Café, Santos Party House, and Moca Lounge, and she has collaborated poetically with Stage of Fiends and Bending Threads Cabaret Company. Her most recent off-Broadway performances include her one-woman show Matriarch at Theater Lab and the role of Venus of Willendorf in Alfred Preisser's Caligula Maximus and as an puppeteer/ensemble member of Theodora Skipitares' Medea (both at La MaMa E.T.C). As a playwright, she wrote and directed Turning Points, an ethnodrama on the African American male experience, which premiered at Aaron Davis Hall. She holds a B.A. in Theatre from City College of New York.