BITCRUSHER is a digital theater collective. We make plays and put them on the internet. Founded in 2016 by Dan Rider and Holly Kristina Goldstein, BITCRUSHER is an attempt to radically democratize the theater by removing the boundaries of price and location in order to bring our productions to anyone, anywhere and by consciously casting and recruiting artists of all backgrounds, races, genders, and abilities. This year BITCRUSHER is premiering three projects: THUD! (NYCFringe, August 2016), You’re Going to Hell if You Laugh (Dixon Place, September 2016), & Perfect Fifths (October 2016), all of which will all be available for pay-what-you-want viewing on their website after the shows close.

Holly Kristina Goldstein is the Co-Creator of BITCRUSHER as well a director, stage manager and performer. Her recent credits include Thud! at NYCFringe 2016 (Director), Perfect Fifths at the John Drew Theater Lab (Director), The Young Artists and Writer’s Project at Stony Brook University Southampton (Prod. Stage Manager), Houseworld in Brooklyn, NY (Performer), EVE at Judson Gym (Assist. Director), You’re Going to Hell If You Laugh—selections from which were performed at BAM summer 2015—at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School (Director).

Jessy Yates is an actor and performance artist from Cleveland and New York City with Cerebral Palsy. She is a recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied acting and directing at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School.When she is not creating original devised theatre, she is doing disability activism and performing burlesque. She has performed at such venues as Brooklyn Academy of Music (Mat Fraser’s Cripfest), Dixon Place Bingo Lounge (Baby’s First Dick Pic and WEIRDO), The Public Theatre (reading of The Penalty), The Silent Barn, Coney Island’s Burlesque at the Beach, and The Robert Moss Theatre (Blessing; Jodie, Greasy; Chicky, Rx).