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Credited variously as Briana Ratterman and Briana Ratterman Trevithick.
Theatre
Orange Flower Water
100 Lives Repertory / Spotlight Theatre, Sept.–Oct. 2025 — by Craig Wright, co-dir. Annie Kehoe and Blaine Palmer. Role: Cathy. The company's debut production. 100 Lives Rep premieres Veronica, in Bed in 2027.
"Briana Ratterman, as Cathy, has the fewest lines but delivers perhaps the most devastating performance: her scene where grief collides with rage collides with desire is more raw than anything I've witnessed onstage." — Krista Garver, Broadway World Read the review
"Emotional beats are never overdramatized. Often actors are desperate to put on a show of big feelings, but the four performers don’t fall into that vanity trap. Totman delicately plays Beth as someone who desperately wants to be a good person while making choices she herself finds objectionable, and the contained fury of Ratterman’s Cathy masks heartbreak until she can’t hold back the dam anymore." — Laura Wheatman Hill, Willamette Week Read the review
The Brother and the Bird
Shaking the Tree Theatre, 2024 — dir. Samantha Van Der Merwe. Role: Mother.
"The staging of The Brother and the Bird sits the audience along a lengthy dining table, set with colorful dinner plates laden with bones. “I’ve got some ribs,” the person next to me mused with interest. They guessed the large bone at the center of mine was a femur. This places the audience directly in the path of all the withering exchanges that fly between Mother (Briana Ratterman Trevithick) and her daughter Marlene (Sammy Rat Rios), both of whom electrify the two-role production." — Suzette Smith, Portland Mercury Read the review
"…Briana Ratterman Trevithick’s stunningly brave and raw performance in Shaking the Tree Theatre’s The Brother and the Bird, in which she raged like a Category 5 hurricane, while standing barefoot on the dining room table around which the audience sat." — Linda Ferguson, Oregon ArtsWatch, 2024 Year in Review Read the piece
“Van Der Merwe could not have found two more perfect actors to realize her vision than Briana Ratterman Trevithick and Sammy Rat Rios (who also composed original music for the show). As the mother, Trevithick brilliantly skirts the edges of sanity, but even at her most monstrous, she’s achingly human. As the 12-year-old daughter, Rat Rios beautifully portrays the transition from the innocence of childhood to learning how the world really works.”— Krista Garver, Broadway World Read the review
Danse Macabre: The Testament of François Villon
Hand2Mouth Theatre / 21Ten Theatre, 2021 — dir. Štěpán S. Šimek, with Jean-Luc Boucherot and Musica Universalis. Role: the Creature — developed and choreographed own role; puppet manipulation.
"…but its most striking feature is another creature who stalks the stage alongside Villon. A puppet not so much manipulated as inhabited by Briana Ratterman Trevithick, it sports a gray grinning/grimacing skull mask, a black cape with a strip of fur down the back, and long appendages like tree branches. Dancing silently through the confined space, it is creepy yet somehow seductive." — Marty Hughley, Oregon ArtsWatch Read the review
"the energy and ease of Jean-Luc Boucherot’s performance as the titular poet, Briana Ratterman Trevithick’s alternately languid and spasmodic turn as a sort of beastly angel of death, the boisterous interactions and timelessly soulful playing of the medieval ensemble Musica Universalis — that however enthusiastic I’d already been, my third time seeing it felt charmed." — Marty Hughley, Oregon ArtsWatch, DramaWatch Read the piece
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Shaking the Tree Theatre, 2017 — dir. Samantha Van Der Merwe. Ensemble; original accordion compositions to Brecht's poetry.
“[Clifton Holznagel'] is joined in the musicmaking deftly and charmingly by Briana Ratterman Trevithick, who roams the stage almost like a dancer playing her accordion (and how many times do you see that in a ninety-minute, no-intermission show?)" — Bob Hicks, Oregon ArtsWatch Read the review
Nominated for Best Director, Best Ensemble, and Best Musical Direction, 2018 Drammy Awards. Production page
Where's Bruno?
Imago Theatre, 2023 — written and directed by Carol Triffle. Role: the ghost of the band's late lead singer.
"Triffle continues to find actors who can inhabit her sense of wry ambiguity and comically awkward physicality, such as Imago veteran Kyle Delamarter, who plays the restlessly idle musician Bruno, and Briana Ratterman Trevithick, a hoot here as the ghost of the late lead singer of Bruno’s formerly popular band." — Marty Hughley, Oregon ArtsWatch, DramaWatch Read the piece
Piercing the Veil: A Samhain Celebration
21ten Theatre, 2023 — dir. Štěpán S. Šimek, with Musica Universalis and Kettlehead Studios. Writer and co-creator; performer.
Featured in Oregon ArtsWatch — read the feature
Blue Roses
Fertile Ground Festival, 2026 — staged reading of Sandra de Helen's play, dir. Louanne Moldovan, at 21ten Theatre.
"Ratterman was stunning as Rose Isabel – vulnerable, spicy, and bewildered all in one breath.." — Linda Ferguson, Oregon ArtsWatch, Fertile Ground wrap Read the piece
Fucking A
Shaking the Tree Theatre, Oct.–Nov. 2022 — Suzan-Lori Parks, dir. Samantha Van Der Merwe. Role: The First Lady; accordion
"The play includes original music, which is often accompanied by an accordion - an instrument whose inherent playfulness is in stark contrast to the brutality of the lyrics." — Krista Garver, Broadway World Read the review
Also reviewed by Portland Mercury (Max Tapogna) and Willamette Week (Bennett Campbell Ferguson) — both linked from the production page.
Film
Beth + Jeremy and Steve
Feature, 2025 release — written and directed by Daniel M. Hill. Role: Beth (lead). Best Supporting Actress, Santa Fe Film Festival, 2022
"The acting, too, along with the script-writing, is at its best when it’s between Beth and Jeremy. Briana Ratterman does an exceptional job of relaying the awkward coquettishness of an older woman seducing a younger man for the first time, and she is always natural and believable in every scene she’s in." — William Hemingway, UK Film Review Read the review
"Set in Portland and shot at a number of local landmarks, it’s an accomplished debut, with compelling performances (especially from Ratterman) and a script that refuses to draw easy conclusions about any of its characters." — Marc Mohan, Oregon ArtsWatch Read the piece
8.5 / 10 — Kent Hill, Film Threat Read the review
Also reviewed by Cinema Crazed — Read here
Music
The Killing Fields
Composer — by Anya Pearson, 2018 Orphic Theatre commission. Composed original melodies, performed on ukulele with vocals. Developed at Seven Devils New Play Foundry, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Artists Repertory Theatre, and the Great Plains Theatre Conference; performed at festivals nationally, 2018–ongoing.
Sophe Lux
Band member, 2007–2009 — keys, accordion, harmonies. EP: Hungry Ghost (2008). Headlined Portland Pride; Doug Fir, Holocene, Mississippi Studios.
"Sophe Lux has dazzled." — SPIN
The live show is "brilliantly theatrical… a bona fide rock opera." — Willamette Week
Interviews
411Mania, May 2025 — on Beth + Jeremy and Steve, working with Daniel Hill, and the Meisner-based rehearsal process. Interview by Bryan Kristopowitz. Read it
Oregon ArtsWatch, May 2025 — Daniel Hill on making the film. Read it