Betina Hershey
- Actress
Betina is a singer/songwriter/guitarist. Her album Get Us Out Of Fearland (Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches) was #2 on the Folk Alliance International Chart right under John Prine. Additional albums include Wish I Could Stay, The Very Next Thing (Hot Jazz Jumpers), Very Next Thing (Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches. Her current band, The Scooches, is working on releasing the album Lift You Up. As a musical theater perform Betina has performed nationally and internationally. Credits include Meg in the National Tour of Phantom of the Opera, Anybody's in the international tour of West Side Story, Jackie in Pump Boys and Dinettes, and Luisa in The Fantasticks. As a writer, five of her musicals for kids are published and performed all over the world through Beat by Beat Press: We Are Monsters, The Grunch, The Most Epic Birthday Party Ever, Space Pirates, Musicville. Betina is an educator, Artistic & Executive Director of Garden Players, a musical theater program for kids focused on original works in NYC. She has two online acting video courses for kids available through DIY.org. She also has socially aware musicals to help kids grow available through her publishing company, Garden Players Publishing. Titles include So Far From Home, Your Turn - A Super Powered Earth Saving Musical, Switch It Off.