TWITCH
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2026 at 7:30PM
at THE SUSAN & RONALD FRANKEL THEATER
AT THE ROBERT W. WILSON MCC THEATER SPACE
by Liliana Padilla
directed by Jack Ferver
starring Joslyn DeFreece (she/her)
Pam searches obsessively for her missing son, accompanied by a twitch no one else can see. Searching for her son, Pam follows clues to the pound, computer store, a missing person’s group, airport, and other crevices of her splitting psyche. In tracking her son’s vanishing steps, she also chases hope.
TWITCH was previously developed as part of the inaugural Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival in 2022. This new, solo version of the piece premiered at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it was named "a show worth seeing" by Vogue.
Liliana Padilla
Writer
Liliana Padilla is a playwright, director, and educator whose work explores the body, time, decay, and desire. Liliana’s play, How to Defend Yourself, won the Yale Drama Series Prize. The New York Theatre Workshop production, which Liliana co-directed with Rachel Chavkin and Steph Paul, was selected as one of the NYT’s Best Theatre of 2023. Liliana’s writing has been produced and developed at Victory Gardens, the Humana Festival, and OSF; recognized by The Kilroys and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. TWITCH was produced by BTB and premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 2026. Padilla teaches playwriting at Dartmouth College and holds an MFA from UC San Diego.
Jack Ferver
Director
Jack Ferver is an internationally acclaimed theater and performance artist whose multidisciplinary practice traverses theater, dance, film, and visual art. Known for formally rigorous and psychologically charged performances, Ferver explores the intersections of queerness, gender, power, and the sociopolitical forces shaping identity and embodiment. Their work has been presented at leading institutions including NYU Skirball, The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, the New Museum, and MASS MoCA. Ferver’s practice has been recognized in The New York Times, Artforum, and The New Yorker, which described their performances as “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms.” They teach at Bard College.
Joslyn DeFreece (she/her)
PAM
Joslyn DeFreece is a NYC-based actor, writer and activist. She just wrapped up a month long run of TWITCH at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and she is excited to bring it back to NYC and share with her BTB family. She has appeared on the Daily Show, Comedy Central, CNN, The Kelly Clarkson Show and Family Feud. Joslyn can currently be seen in the comedy series “Marque and Hector” on Amazon Prime/ Dekkoo and as a German trans woman who escaped the Nazis on "Strange Angel", streaming on Paramount+ .