MEET THE bitches

 
 

WEDNESDAY SUE DERRICO (she/her) is a queer, feminist producer and director born and based in New York. Wednesday dedicates her life to personal, political art by supporting platforms for diverse creative expression, that lay outside of the boundaries of white, cisgender, straight, male, able-bodied, elitist work. Since graduating from NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing, Wednesday has developed skills in project management from her collaborations with non-profit institutions such as The Park Avenue Armory, The Bushwick Starr, Target Margin, and HERE Arts Center. A jill-of-all-trades, Wednesday has fulfilled appointments in stage, company, and production management, while drawing on her skills from performance and film work. Wednesday works regionally as an event producer with organizations including WORTHLESS STUDIOS, and The New York Landmarks Association. Recent credits include: The Measure of Innocence by Anya Pearson (Director, Bag & Baggage Theater, Portland, Oregon); Pssy Cck Know Nothing, Directed by David Herskovitz (Production Manager, Target Margin Theater); Winter Miller’s, No One is Forgotten (Stage & Production Manager, The Rattlestick Playhouse); Diana Oh’s Infinite Love Party (Co-Producer, The Bushwick Starr); Nick Cave’s, The Let Go (Company Manager, The Park Avenue Armory); The Lehman Trilogy, Directed by Sam Mendes (Assistant Company Manager, The Park Avenue Armory). Wednesday received her BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch, Experimental Theater Wing. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, American Theater Magazine, Vice Creator’s Project, and Harper’s Bazaar UK. Wednesday founded Experimental Bitch with Shelby Brage in 2014. As Executive Director of ExB, Wednesday Derrico focuses on budget management, fundraising, company management, and contract negotiations.

Wednesday Sue Derrico

Founder, Executive Director Bitch

TATIANA BACCARI (she/they) is a chronically-ill, queer & Jewish director and creative producer. They are committed to anti-racist, accessible and queer-inclusive spaces and make bitchy theater that misbehaves and grapples with big questions. They have directed and produced live theater at Joe's Pub, Access Theater, HERE, the Bushwick Starr and The Connelly Theater, among others, and regionally in Boston, Washington DC, Vermont and Florida. They have assisted directors Pirronnee Yousefzadeh (Vietgone/Geva Theatre), Sarah Wansley (New Works Now/Northern Stage) and Jo Bonney (An Unusual Landscape/BRIC). Recent directing credits include Animals Out of Paper (Jobsite Theater/Straz Center, Tampa, FL) and Tanya’s Lit Clit (Park Ave Armory workshop), which they co-conceived and are developing with playwright, Emma Goldman-Sherman. Tatiana received her BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch and is currently a John Wells Directing Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University (2025). Baccari has served as Artistic Director of ExB since 2017. Through extensive research, reading and seeing new material, and their deep passion for live performance, Baccari directs the creative vision of ExB.
www.TatianaBaccari.com

Tatiana Baccari

Artistic Director Bitch

 
 
 

KERRIGAN QUENEMOEN (she/her) is a producer, actor, and multi-hyphenate from Houston, TX. Her NYC producing credits include: MACBETH and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Double Feature), BITCHIN' HEALS (Experimental Bitch), MEAT (The Tank), POLYLOGUES (Tour), TANYA'S LIT CLIT (Experimental Bitch), DON'T DO THIS TO US! (The Tank) and THE SLOW DANCE (Upcoming at 59E59). She currently works at Williamstown Theatre Festival as their Grant Writer and previously as their Producing Assistant. She recently completed her BOLD Artistic Fellowship at Northern Stage. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2020.

Kerrigan Quenemoen

Associate Producer

 
 

2022-23 Resident Bitches

 
 

x they/themme, ze/hir, fae/fer) is a TRANSdisciplinary artist, Intimacy Coordinator, and curator. Selected curatorial highlights include: Dance/NYC Symposium (2022, Guest-Curator), VIRAL: A Contagious Kiss, A Transmittable Video (2020, Visual AIDS); delicate wash cycle (2019, Stigma Unbound Collective); Who Is Me? (2018, Tompkins County Public Library).

x

Curator, Bitchin' Heals

 
 

2021-22 Resident Bitches

 

Nia Ostrow Witherspoon (she/her) is a black queer theater maker, vocalist and composer, and cultural worker investigating the metaphysics of black liberation, desire, and diaspora. Witherspoon is the Multimedia Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University, a Jerome New Artist Fellow, an artist in residence at HERE Arts Center, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and was a 2017-18 2050 Playwriting/Directing Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop. Her award-winning work has been featured by JACK, La Mama ETC, Playwright’s Realm, BRIC, HERE, National Black Theatre, BAAD, Movement Research, BAX, Dixon Place, Painted Bride, 651 Arts, and elsewhere. As a performer, Witherspoon appeared in Sharon Bridgforth’s River See, and in Cherríe Moraga’s La Semilla Caminante/The Traveling Seed. She holds a BA from Smith College and a PhD from Stanford University in Theatre and Performance Studies, and has held tenure-track professorships at Florida State University and Arizona State University. niawitherspoon.com
www.niawitherspoon.com

NIA O. WITHERSPOON is a Black queer multidisciplinary artist + healing justice practitioner investigating the metaphysics of black liberation, desire, and diaspora, as they track across the space-time continuum. Combining Black feminism, indigenous epistemologies, eco-feminism, and auto-critogrophy with mediums in writing, performance, sound, and installation, Witherspoon creates portals for communion, witnessing, and coming to balance.

Nia O. Witherspoon

Priestess of Twerk: Time Warp 332 BC (A Concert Experiment) , Creator & Performer

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EMMA GOLDMAN-SHERMAN's (she/her) plays have been produced on 5 continents and include WOMBSHOT and PERFECT WOMEN (Jane Chambers Award). COUNTING in SHA'AB is a podcast on PlayingOnAir.og and was part of The 2015 ReOrient Festival at Golden Thread in San Francisco and the 2019 UNESCO Literary Festival, in Dunedin, New Zealand. Emma earned an MFA from the University of Iowa where she received the Maibaum Award for plays addressing social justice. Emma is the Resident Dramaturg at 29th Street Playwrights Collective in NYC where she runs the WriteNow Workshop and holds space for women writers online. Member: Dramatists Guild. Her work is available at newplayexchange.org

Emma Goldman-Sherman

Playwright, Tanya's Lit Clit

 
 
 

EMILY HEWITT (she/her) started taking pictures when she was nine (the same year she got her first pair of glasses – there’s probably a connection) and she started working in theater when she was 16. It was many years later when she blended her two passions into a performance photography service. Emily invites you to view her portfolio at www.emilyhewittphotography.com

Emily Hewitt

Resident Photographer

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ALEXANDRA LENIHAN is an illustrator, graphic designer, and writer who lives in Los Angeles. She runs a weekly blog featuring personal essays by female-identifying and queer writers at www.len1010.com. She most recently illustrated and designed the layout of Grant Chemidlin's book of poems, He Felt Unwell (So He Wrote This), which you can find on Amazon.
www.alexandralenihan.com

Alexandra Lenihan

Resident Graphic Designer

 
 

2020-21 resident artists

Amara Brady

Coral Cohen

Aizzah Fatima

Hannah Aliza Goldman

Santiago Iacinti

Non Kuramoto

Synead Cidney Nichols

Julie Piñero

Bitchin’ Collabs Curator: Miranda Haymon

Bitchin’ Collabs Virtual Producer: Alisha Bhowmik

2019 Resident Artists

Hannah Aliza Goldman

Aliyah Hakim

Sophia Heinecke

Alexandra Lenihan

Gabriel Rodriguez

Madeline Wall