Big News! HAVEABABY accepted into the Tribeca Film Festival!

GREAT NEWS!! 

haveababy has been invited to have its World Premiere at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in NYC from April 13-24! This was truly meant to be: our premiere will take place during National Infertility Awareness Week, which is an incredible opportunity to reach a larger audience beyond the film festival itself. 

Feel free to share the good news about the premiere, it was just publicly announced and we are excited to spread the word!!

I am so proud to share my story in this documentary about my journey with infertility. Please come! I will be there at the screening!!

Featured in NY Mag as A BEST BET

Click here to read the article. 

Athena is featured in HAVEABABY movie which raised 50K on Kickstarter!

Athena is so proud to be one of a few selected for HAVEABABY movie which follows her journey through IVF to HAVEABABY. 

Thanks to your support, the movie can be edited and hit the festivals! 

A note from the creators: 

Our HAVEABABY campaign is officially complete and it was a smashing success! A heartfelt THANK YOU to every single one of our 478 Backers who helped us raise over $54,000!!!

We are blown away by how much support we received over the last 30 days. The film was covered in the The New York Times and The Huffington Post, we were selected as indieWIRE Project of the Day, were honored to be Kickstarter Staff Pick and Project of the Day, and also to be featured on numerous curated Kickstarter film festival pages including Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Institute, SXSW, Rooftop Films Inc., IDFA, the International Documentary Association and IFP. 

A central goal of this campaign was to develop a community and to start a conversation about infertility beyond the film. In anticipation of our film completion and this campaign, we posted our very first (and pretty emotional!) entry on Facebook exactly 2 months ago today, and have over a thousand followers now. We are so grateful and heartened by the show of support we've received over these last two months and we hope you will continue to follow the film as we bring it out into the world in 2016!!

Best, 
Amanda, Serin, and the whole HAVEABABY team

‪#‎haveababymovie‬ ‪#‎grateful‬

Looking forward to bringing in the New Year as Gaga in NYC!

Me and Madonn's DJ and more will be having a crazy blast performing this NYE! Gaga will be set wild to sing / entertain you into 2016. Come one come all!

Click here for tickets.

NY Times Feature & HAVE A BABY MOVIE

Wow! Featured in the NY TIMES! I am SO PROUD to be in HAVEABABY, an incredible documentary about IVF and those that struggle with infertility. Check out the article in the NY Times, and PLEASE check out (and donate to) the KICKSTARTER campaign that launched TODAY by clicking here.  Please share! If you are thinking, "Why is infertility an issue?" or "Why don't they just adopt?" then you need to see this film. Everyone needs to see this film. It is so moving and really sheds some light on something that you just can't understand unless you went through it or someone close to you. I adore my baby and I went through hell to get here... Please check it out to understand why.

Welcome Phoenix to the world!

After a long journey struggling with infertility I am pleased to announce the birth of my son, Phoenix Emet Alexander Reich on August 29th, 2015. He is healthy and cuddly and I am adjusting to my new life!

Also, I wrote an article about my journey as a single lesbian mother by choice struggling with infertility and it is now published in the national magazine GO MAG. You can read it online here (and see more pics) or pick up a hard copy by searching for distributors here. Also check out my Facebook page for more pics of me and Phoenix here. 

Although I am nesting, I am still teaching and performing so don't hesitate to keep sending me students & performance opportunities.

Thank you sincerely for all your support.

Love,

Athena

Athena on The Perfect Murder on ID Channel July 8 10/9c

Athena plays the wife of the husband & wife kidnapping team in Vanishing Act (The Sidney Reso Case) which premieres on Investigation Discovery at 10/9c on July 8th. To find out which channel Investigation Discovery is on your cable provider please use the following link: http://www.investigationdiscovery.com/channel-finder/.

You can also stream it on Amazon if you have a U.S. credit card and purchase it for $2.

Wendy Williams Show uses Athena's image, thinking it's Gaga

Whoops...Another news outlet mistakes Athena for Gaga... First Billboard, now WW show... I wonder if the WW show will have Athena on as a guest now?

Had a great time at the 5th Annual Broadway Sings for Pride!

What a blast performing at ROAR to benefit the Tyler Clementi Foundation. Seriously the quality of Broadway Sings for Pride just gets better and better each year. It was insane.. I'll post videos as they appear online. I was fortunate to meet Tyler Clementi's family and they are lovely inspiring people who are doing amazing work against bullying. Tyler is the student at Rutgers who committed suicide after being exposed by bullies online for being gay.

And, in ditzier news, I totally rocked a sequined dress while 7 months pregnant :) And I got to open the whole show with BORN THIS WAY. Details to follow! And below is a video I did talking about gay pride to promote the show. Happy Pride everyone! 

And below that is a video of me performing at the event!

On set of THE PERFECT MURDER

We had a great time on set for The Perfect Murder. Lots of fresh grapes, cookies and great conversation kept us actors happy in between takes. I got to be interrogated really intensely, swarmed by the FBI and even lift a coffin. Can't wait till it airs on Discovery ID this June or July. I played Jackie Seale in the Exon Kidnapping in 1992... Stay tuned!

On set with John Badyna who played one of the head detectives who interrogated me.

Athena as "Pregnant Gaga" and "Obnoxious Laugher" in Get a Life Coach Series

So proud to be featured in this episode! Just love this show! Such a fan of this hilarious web series.

#ARTBIRTH makes Time Out Critic's Pick!

#ARTBIRTH makes Time Out Critic's Pick. How awesome! Click to read.

Athena is featured in the Citibike Blog!

“I have my own bike but I much prefer using Citi Bike for the convenience and flexibility. I can bike somewhere and subway or cab back if it rains or snows. If I meet up with friends and we end up walking a bit to find a restaurant or go see a show, I can bike back from the new location.  It’s amazing to be spontaneous with plans, as the New York life is a spontaneous one!”- Athena R.

Thrilled to have been featured in GO MAG!

Thrilled that #ARTBIRTH got a feature in GO MAG!

Noah's Unicorn ( the single ) now released on CDBaby!

Very thrilled to announce that the new single, "NOAH'S UNICORN" is now released on CDBaby and will soon be released on iTunes and other song purchasing & streaming sites.  Please enjoy this original folk song that explores themes of sacrifice, love and loss. A sweet revisionist twist of the story of Noah's Arc that explains how the unicorns became extinct.

LYRICS:
Waters thrash at the sides of the arc
We will sink unless 2 debark
Noah said, “Gather round
Or we’ll drown.”

I will sacrifice me and my wife
Our gift to you is life
Live long and strong
Make us proud

“But no,” said the unicorn,
“No, it’s not right.
For you are our leader
let us sacrifice.”

But water will fill your lungs
you will not survive
Noah said, “please!
Let it be me.”

“No fear,” said the unicorn
“For we have a plan.
“We’ll ride every rainbow
Till we reach the other side”.

And to this very day
Unicorns laugh and play
Our friends at the end 
Of every rainbow

CREDITS:
Song Composition: Athena Reich 
Audio track recorded at Sierra Sound, NYC
Produced, engineered and mixed by Freddie Katz 
Audio track mastered by Mark Dann 
Vocals, Ukulele, Piano and Synth: Athena Reich
Acoustic and electric guitars, Bass, Percussion: Freddie Katz
Graphic Design: adam reich

Special Thanks to Team Isis (Sanam Erfani, Kyle Rostan, Athena Zhe, Katarina Lott, Cyle Jackson, Michael J Clark, Kevin Kolack) for the making of the music video. Please check out the official music video of "Noah's Unicorn" on YouTube.

We did it! We got an extended run for #ARTBIRTH!

We can't believe it! We played to packed houses and the producers have extended us to alternate Fridays starting Feb 13th, 2015! Get your tickets now for February at www.ArtbirthShow.com

Pics courtesy of Jason Russo.