Welcome to Midday: History Repeating at QED Astoria

"Welcome to Midday: History Repeating" is a storytelling show about how after growing up in Mississippi, I landed a job as a Victorian house museum tour guide in Pittsburgh—all because I was trying not to become my mother. I made all different choices than she had made, to find myself just like her—but worse! As I led recurring tours through both public and private rooms where a robber baron and his family once lived, it dawned on me that it was similar to how I compartmentalized my life. I had made a series of mistakes and to publicly save face, I couldn’t let on how miserable I was in private. As folks heard my southern accent, they asked, "How did you get here?" At the time, I wasn't ready to confront the reasons how.

No matter where we go, history will repeat until we learn from our past.

Directed by Julia Whitehouse