If you’re a mum, carer or just chronically over-capacity, The Manager Is Me is for you.
This hilarious, unhinged 55-minute mix of comedy, poetry and theatre is about the invisible labour of caring for everyone else while quietly losing track of yourself.
Written and performed by 2025 Victorian Champion of the Australian Poetry Slam, Dayna Fallon, the show draws on her own experience of caring for her husband through complex health issues while raising three young children and working.
It’s for the people who are expected to be high-performing at work, at home and everywhere in between, while also somehow being the accountant, teacher, nurse, counsellor, organiser, emotional support crew and goddamn magician.
Because somehow, these can be the best days of your life, and still be the days that nearly finish you.
Funny first, but with real emotional weight underneath, The Manager Is Me shines a spotlight on carers and the extraordinary practical and emotional work that so often goes unseen.
At its heart, it’s about what happens when the person holding everything together starts coming apart, and about helping carers feel seen.
The Manager Is Me is performing at The Salon, The Motley Wherehaus, as part of Melbourne Fringe 2026.
