Snatch Adams &
Tainty McCracken Present
It’s That Time of the Month
written and performed by Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte
directed by Jess Barbagallo
in association with The Bushwick Starr
October 25 - December 3
Trigger Warning: There will be fluids!
Snatch Adams is a 6-foot tall vagina who lost her job as a clown at Planned Parenthood in 2016. After knocking on clinic doors across America, only to find them shuttered, she is finally hired to host a talk show with recently Me-Too’ed comic Tainty McCracken! Along with a rotating roster of celebrity guests, Snatch and Tainty fart, flirt, and squirt in order to bring awareness and love to genitals and their human companions everywhere.
Join us at this original queer spectacle featuring puppets, prizes, and perversity, and celebrate the power and autonomy of loudmouthed vagina people while you still can. You’ll laugh so hard you’ll go number three!
Cast
Becca Blackwell
Snatch Adams
Becca Blackwell is an NYC-based trans actor, performer and writer. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun “they,” Blackwell works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance. Some of their collaborations have been with Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf and Lisa D’Amour. Film/TV includes: ”Survival of the Thickest,” “Bros,” “Sort Of,” “High Maintenance,” “Ramy,” “Marriage Story,” “Shameless,” “Deadman’s Barstool,” and “Jack in the Box.” They have toured their solo shows They, Themself and Schmerm and Schmermie’s Choice across the US. And currently creating a new show Back To She that will premiere in 2024. Blackwell was a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award, the Franklin Furnace award and the Creative Capital Award.
Amanda Duarte
Tainty McCracken
Amanda Duarte is a writer-performer who lives in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Time Out New York among other publications, and she has appeared on stages large, small, and legally nonexistent across, above and under the city for two decades. Recent shows include Staying Alive at Joe’s Pub, the long-running cult favorite Dead Darlings at Judson, and the Nasty Women comedy series at the 14th St. Y. Current projects include farming, strenuous attempts at astral projection, and political subterfuge. For six years, she has been fortunate enough to collaborate with Becca Blackwell and wear the indeed heavy but truly priceless rectal crown of Tainty McCracken.
Becky Hermenze
Performer
Becky Hermenze (she/her) is a performance artist, comedian, and writer. She has been featured on shows such as Messy Queens, Tits to the Glass, and was recently a semifinalist in the New York Queer Comedy Festival. When not performing, she has worked to support the development of new work with companies such as Radiohole, Elevator Repair Service, and Half Straddle. Deep gratitude and love to Becca and Mo for including her on this journey. @beckywtheokhair
Amando Houser
Performer
Amando Houser (they/them) is a trans masculine actor, theatre-maker and clown born and based in NYC. They are thrilled to be making their Off-Broadway debut with Soho Rep in Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month! They have performed in and devised work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Wild Project, JACK, and The Richard B. Fisher Center at Bard College. Amando is a recent graduate of École Philippe Gaulier in France and has trained with Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia, Julia Masli, and 2023 Britain’s Got Talent Winner Viggo Venn. Currently they are developing their upcoming solo show DELIADELIA made possible by Creatives Rebuild New York.
Creative Team
Becca Blackwell
Creator/Writer/Performer
Becca Blackwell is an NYC-based trans actor, performer and writer. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun “they,” Blackwell works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance. Some of their collaborations have been with Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf and Lisa D’Amour. Film/TV includes: ”Survival of the Thickest,” “Bros,” “Sort Of,” “High Maintenance,” “Ramy,” “Marriage Story,” “Shameless,” “Deadman’s Barstool,” and “Jack in the Box.” They have toured their solo shows They, Themself and Schmerm and Schmermie’s Choice across the US. And currently creating a new show Back To She that will premiere in 2024. Blackwell was a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award, the Franklin Furnace award and the Creative Capital Award.
Jess Barbagallo
Director
Jess Barbagallo is a theater artist, teacher, and writer. Some creations include: Sentence Fetish (The Brick’s Trans Theater Festival, NYC); Not for Resale (in collaboration with NYU Steinhardt’s Drama Therapy as Performance, Provincetown Playhouse); Beaches in Winter (Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU); Room for Cream: A Live Lesbian Serial (with the Dyke Division at LaMama ETC/The New Museum, NYC); The Puzzlers/The Puzzlers 2: Black Box (with Accent Wall Productions at The Brick’s Exponential Festival); Weekend at Barry’s/Lesbian Lighthouse (Abrons Arts Center, NYC); and Weekend at Barry’s: Greatest Hits (The Brick). He is a regular contributor at Artforum.
Amanda Duarte
Writer/Performer
Amanda Duarte is a writer-performer who lives in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Time Out New York among other publications, and she has appeared on stages large, small, and legally nonexistent across, above and under the city for two decades. Recent shows include Staying Alive at Joe’s Pub, the long-running cult favorite Dead Darlings at Judson, and the Nasty Women comedy series at the 14th St. Y. Current projects include farming, strenuous attempts at astral projection, and political subterfuge. For six years, she has been fortunate enough to collaborate with Becca Blackwell and wear the indeed heavy but truly priceless rectal crown of Tainty McCracken.
Greg Corbino
Production Design
Greg Corbino is a multidisciplinary artist, puppeteer, and educator. His work investigates how object performance and sculpture crafted from refuse material and engaged by community can create queer ecologies of care and action in public space. It is deeply invested in nature and aspires to be zero waste, creating work from recycled, found and salvaged materials as an act of repair. Gregory is a long time collaborator with Peter Schumann and The Bread and Puppet Theater where he was a full time company member from 2012-2016. He has worked with Xaviera Simmons, Cecilia Vicuña Jennifer Miller and Circus Amok, Reverend Billy, Savitri D and The Stop Shopping Choir, Amy Trompeter, John Heginbotham and Cathy Weiss. As a designer and fabricator his work has been seen at The Guggenheim Museum, The High Line and The Queens Museum, The Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Smithsonian Institution. Residencies have included LMCC Arts Center Governors Island (NYC), QueerLab (Rome) Isadora Duncan Dance Center (Greece) and Togo Village Art Museum (Taiwan).
Kate McGee
Lighting Designer
Kate McGee (Lighting Designer) is a trans*designer and new media artist. Off-Broadway: My Lingerie Play (Rattlestick Theater), The Infinite Love Party (Bushwick Starr), while you were partying and Notes on Killing … (Soho Rep), I’m Revolting (Atlantic Theater), Pay no Attention to the Girl (Target Margin Theater), The Hang by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray (HERE/Prototype Festival), Early Plays (New York City Players/Wooster Group). International: protec/attac (D
Ien DeNio
Sound Designer
ien DeNio (Sound Design) [they/them] is a two time Drama Desk Nominated enby, who, for reasons passing understanding, seems to enjoy leaving their umbrella at home when it is most assuredly going to rain. Usually downpour. This makes their mother make that exasperated noise.. the one you hear in your head when she isn’t around .. the one you grew up with, the one that makes you cringe just a little bit. Awkward. Yep. That one. Bet you just heard it in your head. Sound Designed. They have also designed many shows in many places. That one was a particular favorite. This one too. Also the other one. www.iendenio.com #HashtagSoundDesigned [Neverbugs… little ones.]
Barbara Samuels
Creative Producer
Barbara Samuels (she/her) is a queer producer, organizer and lighting designer. Barbara uses a diversity of approaches to invest in generous, innovative, intersectional and antiracist design-forward live events – aiming to unearth the human condition while destabilizing harmful power structures. Barbara is currently developing projects with Kedian Keohan and Becca Blackwell. Barbara served as the General Manager of OBIE Award-winning 13P from 2008-2012, and as Producing Director of Morgan Gould and Friends from 2014-2018. In 2016, in addition to being a Target Margin Institute Fellow, The Interval named Barbara a Woman to Watch. Barbara currently runs the Wingspace Mentorship Program. Barbara holds a B.A. from Fordham University and an M.F.A in Lighting Design from NYU. Proud member of USA Local 829. 2022-24 WP Producers Lab. New Georges Affiliated Artist. www.barbarasamuels.com.
Maurina Lioce
Production Stage Manager
Maurina Lioce In NYC Maurina has worked with: Half Straddle, Adrienne Truscott, Alex Tatarsky, Sibyl Kempson, Jim Findlay, David Byrne, Andrew Ondrejcak, Mike Iveson, Erin Markey, Suzanne Bocanegra and Young Jean Lee. She has been a company member of Elevator Repair Service since 2014.
Amanda Villalobos
Original Costume and Puppet Design
Amanda Villalobos is a designer and fabricator for both stage and television and has performed on and off-Broadway as an actor and puppeteer. Villalobos’s puppet designs made their Broadway debut in Amélie, A New Musical (Walter Kerr). Other work includes the Broadway production of Is This A Room (Lyceum Theater) and most recently The Wizard of Oz at San Francisco ACT directed by Sam Pinkleton, Space Dogs at MCC Theater, and Wolf Play, directed by Dustin Wills (Soho Rep/MCC Theater) for which she received Drama Desk Award nominations for both productions. She is a MacDowell Colony fellow and Henson Foundation Grant & Residency recipient. Other collaborators include companies Elevator Repair Service, Half Straddle, and 7 Daughters of Eve. avpuppets.com
Nicholas Zeig-Owens
Video Consultant
Derek Rippe
Animation
Ann Marie Dorr
Associate Producer
Ann Marie Dorr is a theater maker who often works on big-little shows with adventurous and ambitious ideas in downtown and Brooklyn spaces. Most recent projects include DARK DISABLED STORIES by Ryan J. Haddad, dir. Jordan Fein (The Bushwick Starr) and while you were partying by Julia Mounsey and Peter Mills Weiss (Soho Rep). Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab 17/19 with Paul Ketchum on an ever evolving piece, Good and Noble Beings. Associated Artist of Target Margin Theater. Currently they are in the Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting program.
Kedian Keohan
Community Dramaturg
Becky Hermenze
Asst. Stage Manager
Show Calendar
Wednesday – Sunday at 7:30PM
Saturday at 3:00PM (except 10/28 and 11/25)
No performance on November 23,
added performance November 21 at 7:30PM
Saturday at 3:00PM (except 10/28 and 11/25)
Partners
The Bushwick Starr is a nonprofit theater that cooperatively nurtures the creative spirit that has defined our neighborhood for decades. In creating close communion with professional and student performing artists to develop original work, we cultivate an electric space for embodied performance that respects and reflects the community that surrounds us. Since 2007, the Starr has served as a destination for bold and engaging performance. Past Seasons have included new work from groundbreaking artists such as Ryan J. Haddad, Whitney White, Jeremy O. Harris, Heather Christian, Diana Oh, The Mad Ones, Haruna Lee, Clare Barron, and Daniel Fish. The Starr will establish its permanent home at 419 Eldert Street in 2024, creating a lasting cultural asset for Bushwick and for artists, students, and audiences across New York City. For more information, please visit thebushwickstarr.org/campaign.
