Between 2 Butts: The Podcast That Lets Nothing Slip Between The Cracks

A humdinger of an episode featuring a truly multiskilled guy. In our seventy-fifth episode, Jay, Becca and Tice are entertained by actor and trainer Marcus Lawrence. He tells us about Capitol Fringe shows with Jay, singing metal in Grethor , developing his character for In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play), doing nude scenes, fitness training for theater, being a sports freak in the theatre world,...

Come back with us to September 2023 when Tice, Jay, and Becca took stock of their summer adventures. Jay is riding high in his new Jeep and getting in touch with Jeep culture through the extremely wholesome phenomenon of "ducking". Tice is taking his first shots at stand-up paddleboarding, re-assessing his gym goals and STILL taking tentative looks at yoga (through sketchy online ads). A...

In this episode, our guest Erin Gallalee shares with Jay, Becca and Tice her advice about doing research about your character and the advantages of being a character actor and not putting yourself in a box. Then she delights us with stories about Jay making her laugh uncontrollably while watching him in The Elephant Man, the audience laughing inappropriately at her performance in Dangerous Liaison...

Jay is excited to complete the 9-to-5-Trifecta as he, Becca, and Tice have a chat with actress and singer Jolene Vettese! She tells stories about her history in musical theatre and experimental theatre, studying theatre and performing at Syracuse and abroad in London, trying to do "the New York thing" and getting a job with Oxygen TV, and her thoughts on the current state of community th...

Our seventy-first episode begins with Becca considering a small cat tattoo and Jay trying to talk her into a big one. Tice mulls over getting a tat but wonders about the cost; Jay serves up info. Job-hunting Jay then shares a video of tips (from Bryan Creely of A Life After Layoff ) on how to maximize your results from LinkedIn, with everyone weighing in with reactions. After that, Tice takes us d...

Becca, Tice and Jay each weigh in on the phenomenon known as Hockey Butt (and lack thereof) as our lead-in to a delightful session with actor and director Michael Kharfen, star of Superior Donuts, The Diary of Anne Frank, Frost/Nixon, and Amadeus, as well as director of A Streetcar Named Desire, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, As You Like It, Wit, and more, not to mention director of various public healt...

An episode we've been waiting for (and honestly, had to re-start) with guest Joey Olson! Joey is president of the Reston Community Players, and he has appeared in such shows as "9 to 5", "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Bright Star", and most recently "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" along with our own Becca Harney! Besides telling u...

Between 2 Butts is between guests so Jay, Becca, and Tice are choosing discussion topics at will. Becca muses over losing her credit card virginity. Tice leaves the subject of the Un-"Dilbert"ing on the table and instead decides to keep trying to make fun of "Pluggers", which allows Becca to bring up numerous family anecdotes. Jay declares his intention to grow and nurture his...

On this Between Two Butts, Tice, Jay, and Becca are joined by director and choreographer Stefan Sittig, whose recent work includes Urinetown and The Mystery of Edwin Drood at the Workhouse Arts Center, as well as Man of La Mancha, Xanadu, and many others. Stefan fills us in on his journey from DC to South America to Charlottesville and Richmond and once again to DC...including how growing up steep...

After a long rest, here's an episode with just little ol' us, and although some big things have happened, nothing much has changed. Jay continues to ask newlywed Becca about her married-name status and test the boundaries of what first names Becca accepts. Nothing has changed. Jay shares his newfound love of Babymetal (see links below), Becca talks The Last of Us, and Tice reveals to the...

The Between 2 Butts crew is all a-flutter because Becca's about to get married to her beloved (and often-mentioned on the podcast) Bryan. Jay plays around with Becca's possible new name and edits everyone's middle names to suit his liking, insulting Tice when he forgets that Tice already IS his middle name.  We are then joined by guest Jasmine Michelle: actor, writer, cosplayer, and...

In an episode that could have been titled "Slawin' Down", "Hobo: Origins", or "Uranus Spins Backwards", Jay, Becca and Tice talk with actor and space expert Pam Sabella about her theatre, TV and film experiences both locally and in LA, including her middle school theatre teacher almost talking her out of acting (and later eating her words), doing Shakespeare with...

After we open with some final(?) laughs at the expense of Becca's surname before her wedding, we greet Jay's and Tice's former improv teacher, as well as Dungeon Master and podcast host Dave Rockwell! Dave takes us through his introduction in elementary school to Dungeons and Dragons, his introduction to improv via ComedySportz, his return to D&D after a 25-year hiatus following...

It's a casual no-guests episode! Tice and Jay exchange loving beard compliments and, as we are approaching the date of Becca's nuptials  we talk about nebulous wedding dress codes, and dress-pant sweatpants. Becca and Jay reflect on their recent performances in The Sound of Music (as the Baroness and Captain von Trapp) and their character choices-- how the Baroness is NOT just a bitch, h...

It's an unusual Between Two Butts, in which Jay and Becca turn the spotlight on producer-of-few-words Tice Rust! We find out about his name origin, his start in improv, his forays into stage acting, his job history (including DC's very fancy Willard Hotel), and even some discussion of lumbersexuality. But this is the podcast you know and love, so we also have talk of matrimonial tandem t...

It's big episode Six-O! As we push into the sixties, Jay, Becca and Tice hang out with actor/musician Laura Mills, the Lucy to Jay's Snoopy, and maybe even a voice you have heard on the phone without knowing it.  During this episode, Laura shares tons of glorious info with us, including  her experiences playing Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast, Doralee in 9 to 5,  and moms in so many p...

Tice, Becca and Jay have a chat with one of the inspirations for this very podcast, a performer of many talents, Liz Colandene, aka Lizzy Pasta! Liz is the performing arts coordinator at the Workhouse Arts Center in Northern Virginia, an actor, musician, visual artist, and host of the Workhouse's Chat & Sip video series. In this episode, Liz talks about how she got named Lizzy Pasta, her...

Huzzah! Jay, Tice, and Becca are joined by seasoned Renaissance festival performers Tony and Mark Korol-Evans! In this installment of the show you'll meet two actors who have played as characters in the Maryland Renaissance Festival. Find out anything you want to know about Renaissance festivals from the people who wrote the book on it (literally!) You´ll hear which Renaissance festival was d...

Becca, Tice and Jay welcome an old-improv-buddy-turned-New-York-actor Shravan Amin, whose career now includes shadowy gigs with limousines and non-disclosure agreements. Join us as we remember his origins as a dance recital DJ, his beginnings in improv, his first theatre roles, and his move to New York. Along the way, we touch on the improv game Freeze, why Shrave loves doing Shakespeare, and resu...

In this episode, Tice, Jay and Becca talk to performer-hair and makeup artist-cosplayer-writer Ahryel Tinker! She takes us back to her garage performances for friends and family, demonstrates her amazing Britney Spears impression, remembers how seeing "Chicago" changed her life, discusses dream roles and dream cosplays, and writing horror. We also have a running discussion in this episod...

After a flaccid start, our podcast springs to life when Jay, Becca and Tice join local actor-musicians Jonathan and Abbie Mulberg! They tell us about being a married theatrical couple but not necessarily a package deal, acting together in Assassins and Footloose (with Jay!), a maximum-driving-radius for theatre gigs, playing creeps and douches, directing vs. acting, and stage slaps. Abbie and Jona...

Jay, Becca, and Tice welcome actor, cosplayer, and Maryland Renaissance Faire prankster Maureen Dawson to the podcast! After a brief discussion about time management and procrastination, we learn about Maureen's background in biochemistry and law, and then her move to LA and switch to acting (which includes an explanation of being paid to look credible in daytime talk show audiences). Maureen...

Our episode gets off to a difficult start when Becca and Tice  start showing off their coffee mugs before Jay is finished with his intro, something they learn they are not supposed to do. Tice tells Jay and Becca a modern urban legend about "Covid dick", which opens up a whole can of worms about penis size. Then we get to our main topics. Jay's "Greatest Things on the Interwebs...

It's our second Mary Worth live table read! But we cover so much ground before that. Before we even get to our main topics, we talk Valentine's Day rituals, high and low butt cracks, and goat yoga. Then Jay presents his latest Greatest Thing on the Interwebs ( "Titanic 2: Jack's Back" ) and Becca presents installment 4 of "Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared" (RIP...

Local actor and Jay's football buddy Aimee Snow joins Jay, Becca and Tice to regale you with tales of the thea-tahhhh, including: Finishing "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with a broken leg , monologues vs. cold readings for auditions (and making out in a callback scene!), judging her schoolmates for not projecting, dealing with visible bruises from fight scenes, and developing her...