UP NEXT: THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES at The Flea IS BACK! Due to popular demand, the show will have another run this June!

THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, a 5-hour marathon of all seven of Sophocles’ plays re-envisioned by playwright Sean Graney, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, and starring The Bats. Standout Tribeca dining destination Macao Trading Co. will provide a complimentary Asian fusion feast at all performances.

In THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, Sophocles’ seven surviving plays—Oedipus, In Trachis, Philoktetes, In Colonus, Ajax, Elektra & Antigone—combine to create a stunning portrait of the human condition, where the intermingling of chance & fate yields disquieting results. A witty & relevant interpretation of the classics, THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES is an epic examination of the past & a window on the present.

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Betsy was raised in Boulder, CO as a hippie child and later in Westborough, MA as a WASP.

Upon graduation from Choate Rosemary Hall, a boarding school in Connecticut, she moved to New York to attend NYU-Tisch and the Stella Adler Studio. During her college career, Betsy studied at the Moscow Art Theatre for a semester through the National Theater Institute and the Eugene O’Neill Theater.

She received her Honors BFA in Drama in January 2009 and was awarded the Bevya Rosten Memorial Award for Excellence in Theatre Studies.

In 2009, Betsy was selected to be a member of the Bat Company at the Flea Theater and has performed in five world premieres directed by Jim Simpson: The Great Recession (Unum by Will Eno), Girls in Trouble by Jonathan Reynolds, Office Hours by A.R. Gurney, Looking at Christmas by Steven Banks, and Future Anxiety by Laurel Haines.