Actors Theatre of Louisville
31st Humana Festival of New American Plays
March 20 April 1, 2007 BatchMore
About this Production
conceived by Whit MacLaughlin and Alice Tuan
with text by Alice Tuan
created by New Paradise Laboratories
directed by White MacLaughlin
The Cast
Round 1 and Beyond
Betsy Competitive (the bride)
McKenna Kerrigan*
Matty Jay (former maid of honor)
Jeb Kreager*
Betty Lee (the-soon-to-be maid of honor)
Lee Ann Etzold
Becky Steem
Matt Saunders*
Maya Faye
Aaron Mumaw*
Mary Bette
Mary McCool*
Round 2 and Beyond
Taggis (groom
Aaron Mumaw*
Chet (best man)
Matt Saunders*
Smoak (in a jacket)
Jeb Kreager
Lars
Lee Ann Etzold
Mike
Mary McCool*
Wesley
McKenna Kerrigan*
Also
Accomplices: Marie A. Antoinette, Special K. Punch, Punch and Punch;
The Saynads, Myclops, Dancers and a Taxi Cab Driver
An arena in The Connection nightclub, Louisville, Kentucky
Scenic Designer
Matt Saunders
Costume Designer
Rosemarie McKelvey
Lighting Designer
Brian J. Lilienthal
Sound Designer
Whit MacLaughlin
Video Designer
Jorge Cousineaeu
Properties Designer
Ron Riall
Stage Manager
Nancy Pittelman*
Production Assistant
Daneille Teague-Daniels
Dramaturg
Adrien-Alice Hansel
Directing Assistant
Joanna K. Donehower
Commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Batch is the second part of a series created by New Paradise Laboratories about American rite-of-passage events. The first in the series was Prom, which was created in 2004 in collaboration with The Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis.
Presented by special arrangement with The Gersh Agency.
* Member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional
actors and stage managers of the United States.
Batch was developed in part in the Mandell Professionals in Residence Program at Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pa. Batch was made possible in part by a grant from the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts and by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Additional funding provided by
Phoebe W. Haas Charitable Trust "A"
and
Otto Haas Charitable Trust #2