Snatch Adams & Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month
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October 2023
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Written and performed by Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte
Directed by Jess Barbagallo
Presented by Soho Rep in association with The Bushwick Starr
A hilarious queer spectacle that takes the form of an antic-filled talk show, with a series of special guests, co-hosted by Snatch Adams (played by Becca Blackwell), a six-foot tall vagina who has lost her job at Planned Parenthood, and recently Me-Too’ed comic Tainty McCracken (played by Amanda Duarte). 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!
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Becca Blackwell
Creator/Snatch Adams
Becca 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.
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Amanda Duarte
Tainty McCracken
Amanda is a writer-performer who lives in Brooklyn. Recent work includes 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. Her writing has appeared in the NYT, the New Yorker, Time Out NY, High Times and the late great HX, among other publications. She is proud to be featured in both the Museum of Hoaxes and her landlady’s art history textbook, and is proudest of all of being an Oxford Word of the Year nominee. Her life and career path have been extremely weird and she is really happy that they have led her to playing a taint next to Becca Blackwell.
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Becky Hermenze
Slit Crew
Becky 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 helped support the development of new work with companies such as Radiohole, Elevator Repair Service, and Half Straddle/Tina Satter. IG: @beckywtheokhair
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Amando Houser
Slit Crew
Armando is a trans-masculine actor and clown born and based in NYC, hailed as “having talents that are other-worldly” (Brooklyn Rail) and a “tour de force” (Topical Cream). Their alter ego DeliaDelia! has performed their breakout solo hour to sold out crowds at Soho Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Philadelphia Fringe, Union Hall, The Elysian, The Brick, and even the Staten Island Ferry. DeliaDelia opened at Irving Plaza for pop musician Dora Jar’s No Way to Relax When You’re on Fire tour. Houser has also appeared in Becca Blackwell’s Obie Award–winning Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken Present: It’s That Time of the Month at Soho Rep—named one of Vulture’s Best Theatre Productions of 2023, which cited their performance as “particularly funny.” A graduate of École Philippe Gaulier in France, Houser previously trained with Pig Iron Theatre Company and Julia Masli.
Creator/Writer/Performer Becca Blackwell, Writer/Sound FX and Live Scoring/Performer Amanda Duarte, Director Jess Barbagallo, Production Design Greg Corbino, Lighting Designer Kate McGee, Sound Consultant ien DeNio, Video Designer Nicholas Zeig-Owens, Animation Derek Rippe, Original Snatch and Tainty Design Amanda Villalobos, Costume Design Associate & Wardrobe Supervisor Victoria Lowell, Production Stage Manager & Associate Director Maurina Lioce, Creative Producer Barbara Samuels, Community Dramaturg Kedian Keohan, Intimacy Coordinator Chelsea Pace, Associate Producer Ann Marie Dorr, Assistant Director Ann Kreitman, Production Management Intuitive Production Management
This work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Production fees for playwrights at Soho Rep are generously sponsored by The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation. Production design support provided by the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).