A new solo play
Workshop production directed by Tara Falk
Generously supported by the Denver Theatre District
and the Trotsky Family Foundation
“Birth is what the best, most American stories are made of… but we don’t really talk about it.”
We all know the announcement. It comes two to five days after a new baby makes their entrance: “We are so in love! Mom and baby are doing great!” And then we move on while the baby adjusts to bright lights and cold air, and mom quietly pieces herself back together.
In a new solo show, Mom and Baby Are Doing Great, playwright, performer, and new mom Amalia Adiv tells the story we skip over. Using research, interviews, and documentary theatre practices, Amalia weaves her own birth and postpartum story with the voices of others into a funny, heartbreaking, and brutally honest investigation of birth and all that comes with it. She invites us to question our fear of bodies, blood, birthing, and the profound mystery of the event that brings all of us Earthside.
This presentation of Mom and Baby Are Doing Great is a developmental workshop production.
Amalia Adiv is an actor, writer, educator, and a proud mom working in the arts. She is most passionate about bringing stories to life that unearth the messiness of motherhood and the complexity of Jewish identity. As an actor, Amalia was recently seen onstage with the Denver Center for Performing Arts in their 2025 immersive production of Sweet & Lucky: Echo. Other recent credits include Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea (Aurora Fox Arts Center) and Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s educational touring company. Amalia has trained at Fiasco Theater and the Barrow Group Apprentice Company. She holds an MA from NYU in Educational Theatre, with an emphasis on Applied Theatre and verbatim interview theatre, and a BA in Jewish Studies and Theatre from City College of New York. Amalia is also a certified pre/post natal coach and postpartum doula. www.amaliaadiv.com
Broadway: Metamorphoses, The Constant Wife and Enchanted April. Off-Broadway: This Is Our Youth. Regionally: POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumb Ass…, Hand to God and Time Stands Still at Curious Theatre. You Lost Me and Sweat at The Denver Center. Linda in The Thin Place at BETC. Tara has also performed regionally at The McCarter, The Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Eugene O’Neill, Cleveland Playhouse, Rep.Theater of St. Louis, Portland Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, and many more. Numerous roles in TV, Commercials and VO. Directing: Tomorrow in the Battle, Steel Magnolias, Moon for the Misbegotten and Silent Sky. Training: BFA, Boston University. Teaching Artist at The Denver Center.
Max Silverman is a Composer and Sound Designer. Most recently Off-Broadway, Max designed Gene and Gilda at 59E59, the world premiere of Madwomen of the West at the Actors Temple Theatre and Mr. Parker at Theatre Row. Upcoming you can hear his work Off-Broadway at 59E59, in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and locally in Come From Away and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Arvada Center), Patsy Cline (Lone Tree Arts Center), Jagged Little Pill (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center), Twelfth Night and Shakespeare In Love (Colorado Shakespeare Festival). He has written music for podcasts, advertisements and short films. max-silverman.com
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Do you work in healthcare or another maternal health field? We want this piece to have a life beyond the theatre! We envision the play working as a piece of educational theatre in medical and maternal health settings as a way of igniting difficult or overlooked conversations.