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Actors Theatre of Louisville
31st Humana Festival of New American Plays

March 20 – April 1, 2007
Batch More 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