Ballads in Exile is a dramatic song-cycle about women on the margins, told across time, place, and experience. From a Midwestern girl writing to her namesake across the ocean, to New York strippers making ends meet in the wake of the Times Square clean-up, Ivoirian, Filipina, and Israeli immigrants navigating a punishing America, Burmese revolutionaries haunted by memories of war, Thai sex workers at odds with their Expat lovers’ wives, the all-too-familiar heartache of a young divorcée, and the relentless quiet indignities of a Calabasas housewife—these are women seeking transformation in a world determined to keep them in their place. Performed by Kamler along with leading Broadway voices, Ballads in Exile traces the ever-surprising interior lives of women who refuse to stop searching for themselves.