Stream Trich

Stream TRICH — LIMITED TIME ONLY
EXTENDED THROUGH OCTOBER 16!

To celebrate BFRB Week 2022, you can now stream TRICH online!

Written by Becca Schneider and directed by Jenn Haltman and Casey Pfeifer, TRICH was the top-selling show at the 2021 United Solo Theatre Festival in New York City, winning both the Audience Choice Award and Best Actress Award. For a limited time, we are making the exclusive Festival recording available for viewing — October 8 through 16, 2022 only! Ticket details below.

After watching the show, join Becca and Aneela Idnani (Cofounder of HabitAware) for a Q&A on Instagram Live on Monday, October 17 at 1pm ET. And be sure to check out the recently launched BFRB Collective while you’re at it!

Learn more about the play here. You can also read the invite Becca wrote to the BFRB community last fall and view the program from the Festival below.

THE STREAM DETAILS

Ticket Price: $20
Venmo: @beccaschneids
Include your email address in the Venmo memo.

After receiving payment, we will email you a private Vimeo link with the password.
TRICH will only be available to stream until Sunday, October 16 at 10pm ET so don’t wait!

If you have any questions or need to make an international payment, please email us at info@betweentwoboroughs.com.

 
 

Run time: 80 minutes with no intermission
Age Guidance: 12+
Content Warning: Profanity and sensitive material surrounding mental health, addiction, anxiety, depression, and BFRBs

 

presents

Design by Tzipora Kaplan

 

Written and Performed by Becca Schneider*
Created by Jenn Haltman, Casey Pfeifer, and Becca Schneider

Trich runs 80 minutes and will be performed without an intermission.
Content Warning: Sensitive material surrounding mental health, addiction, anxiety, depression, and BFRBs
Trich is an Equity Approved Showcase.
*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

Bios

Becca Schneider* (Performer/Playwright/Co-Creator): Becca (she/her) is a New York-based actor and producer. With her company Between Two Boroughs, she has produced and performed in Cannibal Galaxy: a love story, Summertime, and The Understudy. Other NYC and regional credits include Refuge, Platonov, A Christmas Carol (Blessed Unrest), Romeo & Juliet (Westport Country Playhouse), The Music Man (Sharon Playhouse), Convention (Brontosaurus Haircut Productions), Big River (Fairfield Theatre Company), Gruff! The Musical (Doppelskope), The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew (Connecticut Free Shakespeare), As You Like It, As I Lay Dying, Three Sisters (Columbia Stages), Cyrano de Bergerac (National Theatre for Arts & Education Tour). Becca is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and a Muhlenberg College graduate. @beccaschneids | beccaschneider.com

Jenn Haltman (Co-Creator/Co-Director): Jenn (she/her) is a director, casting director, and producer. With her company Between Two Boroughs, she has produced and directed Cannibal Galaxy: a love story, Summertime, and The Understudy. Other directing credits include Cast and Loose Live! (series at Joe's Pub), Gun Play (Sam French Festival), and Maybe Never Fell (Axial Theatre). Recent theatrical casting projects include Perseverance, Skeleton Crew, Native Gardens, and the upcoming Sabina (all Portland Stage). Film projects include "Boy Meets Girl" (dir. Eric Schaeffer), the award-winning short "Behind the Wall'' (dir. Bat-Sheva Guez), and the 2017 Sundance selection “Madeline’s Madeline” (Josephine Decker). Previously, she was the Casting Associate at New York Theatre Workshop (shows include Peter and the Starcatcher, Little Foxes, Aftermath, The Seven) and has also worked with Page 73 Productions, Pig Iron Theatre Company, and Soho Rep. Jenn is a proud graduate of Muhlenberg College. jennhaltman.com

Casey Pfeifer (Co-Creator/Co-Director): Casey is an actor, filmmaker, and writer based in New York City. Her first feature film, “Half-Quaked,” co-created with Rochelle Muzquiz, won Best Comedy in the 2019 Oregon Independent Film Festival in addition to being nominated for Best Picture. Casey worked as a professional actor in Film, TV, and Theatre at the top agency in Portland, Oregon – Option Model & Media. She performed in principal roles for independent films, commercials, and industrials. Casey also produced a theatre production of Miss Ethic Non-Specific (featuring Kristina Haddad), now being made into a feature film. She holds a BA in Theatre and Dance from Muhlenberg College with a concentration in Performance. IMDb

Darielle Shandler (Production Stage Manager): Darielle is a stage manager, light designer, and playwright. Favorite credits: The Bridges of Madison County and The Merry Wives of Windsor (SM, Texas Shakespeare Festival 2021), Jacqueline Novak’s Get on Your Knees (Sub SM, Lucille Lortel), Refuge (PSM, Blessed Unrest + Teatri Oda at Baruch Performing Arts Center), Canarsie (Director, NYTF SummerFest), Doruntine (SM, Blessed Unrest + Teatri Oda, Secondo Theater Festival in Zurich, Switzerland). Her original play, Don’t Make It Weird, premiered in Portland, Maine at Deering High School. darielleshandler.com

Rebekah Paine (Marketing): Rebekah (she/her) has worked in the arts for the last fifteen years, most recently at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. She began there in 2014 as the Director of Marketing working on productions including the Chicago premiere of Hand to God, Fun Home, The House That Will Not Stand, Hillary and Clinton, and The Who and The What. In 2018, Rebekah stepped into the role of Director of Development overseeing all fundraising. Prior to that, she served as the Director of Marketing at New York Theatre Workshop where she promoted Peter and the Starcatcher, Once, An Iliad, and The Select. She currently lives in Chicago with her husband and son.

Between Two Boroughs was co-founded by Jenn Haltman and Becca Schneider in 2014. Previous productions include the New York premiere of Charise Greene’s Cannibal Galaxy: a love story at New Ohio Theatre which received three New York Innovative Theatre Award nominations, Charles Mee’s Summertime at Gowanus Loft, and Theresa Rebeck’s The Understudy at The Secret Theatre. Between Two Boroughs chooses projects that dare artists and audiences to step into unfamiliar territory. Through empathy, humor, and bold simplicity, they share stories that embrace the impossibilities of life, love, and art. Jenn and Becca foster a community of artists who choose to take risks, and through the work, incite conversation about our world. B2B wants you to be a part of that conversation. BetweenTwoBoroughs.com

United Solo Theatre Festival is an annual international festival for solo performances held for over a decade in New York City. Through a variety of one-person shows, the Festival explores and celebrates the uniqueness of the individual. Productions are selected from openly solicited submissions and presented at the highly acclaimed Theatre Row in the heart of the New York City theatre district on 42nd Street. Since its inaugural year in 2010, United Solo has featured more than one thousand productions from all over the world. unitedsolo.org

Actors' Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. actorsequity.org

Special Thanks

We are honored to be included in this year’s United Solo Theatre Festival. After nearly two years of working on this piece behind screens over Zoom, we’re beyond excited to return to the theatre and share this story with audiences in hopes for a future where we can have more open, informed, and loving conversations around mental health.

A huge thank you to everyone who has helped us thus far with this project, including but not limited to: AB Brown, Diana Chan, Brigitte Choura, Alison Cimmet, Josh Doucette, Shannon Fillion, Skye Firestone, Charise Greene, Donna and Jeff Haltman, Courtney Romano Hanson, Molly Rose Heller, Tzipora Kaplan, Sally Eidman Langlitz, Mali MacConnell, Alex Morf, Christina Pezzello, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Gita Reddy, Randy Sarafan, The Schneider Family, Yasu Tsuji, Becki Yanosko, and Kate Zayko.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Between Two Boroughs humbly acknowledges that the work you are seeing today is being performed on the unseated territory of the Lenap. We acknowledge and recognize the genocide and displacement of Indigenous peoples here and all across the country. We encourage you to learn more about the land on which you live, work, and play at Native Land Digital in an effort to honor the rich, thriving culture of Indigenous peoples and land. Please also visit The Lenape Center to learn more about local Lenape art, artists, and ways to support their work and mission.

CONNECT

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SUPPORT THE SHOW

This is just the beginning of this play’s journey. If you’d like to support the future of TRICH, add your name to our list of supporters! Through our fiscal sponsorship with Fractured Atlas, you can make fully tax-deductible donations to the extent allowed by law. Set up a one-time or monthly donation, or learn how to donate by check. If you're interested in investing instead, please contact us at info@betweentwoboroughs.com. Without you, we could not do what we do.

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