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Actors Theatre of Louisville
25th Humana Festival of New American Plays


March 22–April 1, 2001
BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA
written by Charles L. Mee
directed by Anne Bogart
created by The SITI Company

Cast
Bob’s Mom Kelly Maurer*
Susan Ellen Lauren*
Phil’s Girl Akiko Aizawa*
Phil Trucker Leon Pauli*
Becker J. Ed Araiza*
Alien Will Bond*
Carl Barney O’Hanlon*
Wilson Danyon Davis*
Bob, The Pizza Boy Gian-Murray Gianino**
Girl Jennifer Taher**

Setting: 1936: A town outside a city, somewhere in the United States.

Scenic/Costume Designer James Schuette
Lighting Designer Brian Scott
Sound Designer Darron L. West
Properties Designer Amahl Lovato
Stage Manager Elizabeth Moreau*
Dramaturg Tanya Palmer
Presented by special arrangement with International Creative Management, Inc.

The text for this piece was developed in a workshop with Tali Gai, Jane Comfort, Kathleen Turco-Lyon, Rebecca Brown, Reba Herman, Alec Duffy, Jacki Goldhammer, and Carolyn Clark Smith and incorporates texts from them as well as from Robert Rauschenberg, Fred Becker, Philip Morrison, Walt Whitman, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg and Laurie Willams.

* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers of the United States.

** Members of Actors Theatre Apprentice Company.