Jarboe is a director, performance artist, and host whose creative practice spans theater, opera, cabaret, film, and immersive installations—both in her solo work and in her role as founding artistic director of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret. She creates spaces that foster explorations of gender, belonging, and “queer communal imagination and healing,” working in traditional theater and gallery settings as well as in neighborhoods across Philadelphia by way of a mobile performance truck. Her works include the Barrymore Award-winning performance Rose: You Are Who You Eat and its companion immersive installation The Rose Garden, both of which convey a journey through gender and memory. Jarboe has created and performed work for Philadelphia organizations including the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Museum of Art, FringeArts, and Opera Philadelphia. She has toured original work to New York’s Lincoln Center, La MaMa, and the Guggenheim's Works & Process series; D.C.’s Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company; the Seattle Symphony; and has performed internationally. Jarboe received a BFA in Theater and a BA in English from the University of Michigan.
