The Mother by Claudia Pompeya

The Mother is a solo comedy dream walk through absurdity, grief, and repair. Strange, sweet, intimate, interactive, and a little haunted, Claudia Pompeya turns every mother you’ve known, needed, or imagined into what the League of Cincinnati Theatres called “a fever dream, but a really funny one.”

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About Claudia

Claudia Pompeya is a multidisciplinary storyteller working across comics, personal essays, and solo comedy performance. Her work draws from recovery after a high-control religious cult, an abusive home environment, and a lifelong study of symbolism. She translates intense lived material into darkly funny, tender, and precise narratives.

Clowning began as healing, but soon turned into an artistic path. After a week-long residential clown workshop with Dr Brown, Claudia left her full-time corporate graphic design job for clown school. She has trained with Dell’Arte, Avner Eisenberg, and Spymonkey.

Her work has been presented through Fringe festivals in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, and her comics have appeared in Philadelphia’s Caldera Magazine. Her background spans professional commercial acting, illustration, graphic design, and comedy.

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The Mother grew out of a strange and sincere path. The show is not a lecture or self-help piece, but it’s inspired by the mother wound. It is an absurd solo comedy presenting different mothers: both good and bad.

Her clown path helped her forge her inner mother.