Jay Tilley, Becca Harney and Tice Rust are friends through the Washington, DC area theatre, improv and cosplay scene. This new podcast will explore things they have in common - theatre, improv, cosplay, fitness, comics, movies and TV, and a wide variety of other nonsense. There will even be some fun games and special guests. We hope our podcast will be the new guilty pleasure that you swear to your friends and family you never listen to!
The journey to the creation of Between 2 Butts: The Podcast That Lets Nothing Slip Between The Cracks began in 2010 when Becca and Jay met during a production of the musical The Wedding Singer at Prince William Little Theatre in Manassas, VA, directed by Jay’s wife, Melissa Jo York-Tilley.
Jay and Becca formed an instant friendship, which over the years has grown into not only a great onstage relationship, but a fun offstage one as well. Jay and his “Gal Pal” are like the two kids in the back of the class who should not be sitting together. Just ask Melissa!
In 2013, Jay met Tice at an improv audition for ComedySportz and The Blue Show, and, like Jay and Becca, the two hit it off. They have been performing in ComedySportz and The Blue Show improv shows ever since, while Tice recently began his foray into the scripted theatre scene.
Recently, Tice and Jay began discussing the possibility of doing a podcast together, but who would join them to discuss their favorite topics and have some fun? Jay immediately thought of Becca and felt she and Tice would have the same kind of chemistry that Jay shares with the two of them.
As the will of The Force would have it, Tice and Becca ended up appearing in a murder mystery together in 2019. They worked well together and had dinner with Jay after the show. That night, a new podcast was born.
Credit for the title Between 2 Butts goes to Tice, while the tagline The Podcast That Lets Nothing Slip Between The Cracks was Melissa’s idea. Jay and Becca tend to be the naughty kids and are kind of famous (maybe infamous!) on social media for their “buttstuff” humor while Tice tends to be the voice of reason between them. Hence, Between 2 Butts.
The trio has since teamed up with their theatre friend, Matthew Scarborough -- a talented actor, singer, musician and music director -- who has created some fun music for this podcast. In addition, Melissa, who has directed and worked behind the scenes for numerous theatre productions, is serving as the podcast’s creative consultant!
Jennifer Reitz, another great onstage talent from the Washington, DC area theatre scene as well as a successful on camera actress and model, is using her excellent graphic design skills to create our podcast’s logo!
Thank you so much for taking the time to visit our page, learn more about us and check out our podcast. We hope you many, many regrets!
Jay Tilley has been appearing in Washington, DC area community, dinner and professional theatre productions since 1999. He has appeared in nearly 100 different productions, ranging from musical theatre to contemporary comedies and dramas to classical works, such as Shakespeare and Greek. His most notable credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Orin Scrivello, DDS et al), Godspell (Judas/John The Baptist), Craving For Travel (Gary Bolton et al), Assassins (Sam Byck), The Addams Family (Gomez Addams), Oklahoma! (Jud Fry), A Christmas Carol (Scrooge),You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Snoopy), Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Big Daddy), Footloose (Rev. Shaw Moore), Henry IV, Part 1 and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff), Julius Caesar (Brutus), Hairspray (Edna), The Odd Couple (Oscar), Little Shop of Horrors (Voice of Audrey II), Your Mother's Butt (Client/Psychologist), As You Like It (Touchstone), Oleanna (John), Urinetown (Lockstock), The Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Lost Eden (Orson Welles), Anne of the Thousand Days (Henry VIII), Of Mice and Men (Lennie), Jesus Christ Superstar (Caiaphas/Herod) and 1776 (Rutledge/Lee). Jay’s on camera credits include the web series Shotgun Mythos and independent films A Clean Exit and Fat Guy With A Shotgun. He has also performed improv with ComedySportz, The Blue Show and The StageCoach Bandits as well as in various shows and events at The Maryland Renaissance Festival. Jay has been recognized for his work with awards and nominations from Broadway World, DC Metro Theatre Arts, Maryland Theatre Guide, the Reston Community Players, the NVTA One-Act Festival and the Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (WATCH).
Becca Harney is a native of the DMV area, growing up in Dale City and has been performing in the same area since 2009. She received her Associates in Applied Arts from Northern Virginia Community College in 2007 and went on to receive her Bachelor of Music with a concentration in Vocal Performance and a minor in Theater from George Mason University in 2011. Some of her favorite roles include: “Pippi” from The Great American Trailer Park The Musical (DS), “Columbia” from The Rocky Horror Show (UTC), “Julia Sullivan” from The Wedding Singer (PWLT), “Crystal” from Little Shop of Horrors (Providence Players), “Acid Queen” from The Who’s Tommy (PWLT), “Helen” from Carrie The Musical (DS) and members of the Ensemble in RENT (ESP) as well as Ain’t Misbehavin’ (ESP). Other theater credits include: Annie (Ronnie Boylan/Sophie/Ensemble), Anne of Green Gables (Miss Stacy), 9 to 5: The Musical (Ensemble), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Nina), Bat Boy: The Musical (Bud/Pan), Cabaret (Rosie), Baby (Lizzie), Zombie Prom (Honey) with PWLT; Ensemble in La Boheme and Street Scene as well as “Lay Converse” in Suor Angelica with the Opera Scenes Program at George Mason University; The Wizard of Oz (Auntie Em/Glinda) with TheaterWorks VA; Godspell (Joanne) and Smoke on the Mountain (Denise) with FCT; Some Girl(s) (Bobbi) with UTC; Nunsense (Sister Mary Leo) with TAT); Women and Wallace (Lili) with Dodgeball Theatre; Ensemble in Assassins (DS); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Renee/Ensemble), Flowers for Algernon (Ellen/Jackie Welberg) and Tomfoolery (Female Lead Performer) with ESP. When she is not working full-time, she enjoys spending time with her family, friends and her very own Star-Lord, Bryan. She loves working on cosplay, playing with cats or just meowing it up ...
Tice Rust is an improviser now breaking into scripted theatre. He got his start acting in 48 Hour Film Projects in DC and Baltimore. In one of those DC projects, he met with the Improv Imps and subsequently joined the troupe in 2012. After about a year of performing with the Imps in improv shows throughout the DMV area, he also joined DC ComedySportz, based at the time in Ballston, where he met Jay Tilley. During that time he began experimenting with podcasting, creating It’s Funny ‘Cuz, a podcast examining newspaper comics. He also performed twice in the Capital Fringe Festival, in OK Stupid’s Secret Math Lab (2013) and Decades (2014). After a few more years of performing strictly as an improviser, Tice took a role in Superior Donuts with the Reston Community Players in early 2019 as Kiril. Over the next fall and winter he took part in two murder mystery dinners, Monster Mash Murders and Murder on the Manassas Express with Rooftop Productions.
Matthew Scarborough is thrilled to contribute to his first ever podcast! He has worked with Becca and Jay on a number of community theater productions over the last several years.
