Chemo Barbie

A breast cancer diagnosis forces one woman to confront such issues as mortality, body image, relationships, fertility, and mental health. 

Chemo Barbie is an inspiring story told with painful honesty, comedic charm and tear-jerking dignity that takes you into the mind of a cancer patient from diagnosis to treatment. Artist Heather Keller shows what a patient goes through from doctor meetings, testing, treatments and people's reactions around them. It shows the strength and support that develops with some friends and family while others shy away or leave altogether. Crafted from Heather's hand written journals, videos, texts, emails, storytelling and an online chronicling of her experience, Chemo Barbie is a show spoken and performed from the heart that tells the gritty, funny, heartbreaking and uplifting journey of a young woman conquering cancer while living life as normal as possible. 

Chemo Barbie, has been winning awards and touring internationally recently as a part of the Edinburgh Festival 2018, where Keller had the amazing experience of performing her show everyday for 26 performances at the beautiful Guilded Balloon. It received RAVE Reviews and was beloved by the international audiences. It was chosen out of 3,995 shows as, Top 10 Body Positive Shows to see, as well as being called a powerful woman empowerment show. In March Keller wowed audiences at the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival. This Internationally touring show is excited to be performing for Sonoma audiences this October during Breast Cancer Awareness Month!