CAST
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| Bat Boy |
DEVEN MAY |
| Meredith Parker |
KAITLIN HOPKINS |
| Dr. Thomas Parker |
SEAN MCCOURT |
| Shelley Parker |
KERRY BUTLER |
| Maggie/Ron |
KATHY BRIER |
| Ruthie/Ned |
DARIA HARDEMAN |
| Rev. Hightower/Mrs. Taylor/Roy |
TRENT ARMAND KENDALL |
| Bud/Daisy/Pan |
JIM PRICE |
| Sheriff |
RICHARD PRUITT |
| Rick/Lorraine/Mr. Dillon |
DOUG STORM |
| Swings/Understudies |
CHARLES GRAY
GAVIN CREEL
LESLIE KRITZER
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| CREATIVE TEAM |
| Book |
KEYTHE FARLEY
BRIAN FLEMMING |
| Music and Lyrics |
LAURENCE O'KEEFE |
| Director |
SCOTT SCHWARTZ |
| Musical Staging |
CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI |
| Scenic Design |
RICHARD HOOVER
BRYAN JOHNSON |
| Costume Design |
FABIO TOBLINI |
| Lighting Design |
HOWELL BINKLEY |
| Sound Design |
SUNIL RAJAN |
| Hair and Makeup Artist |
ANN CLOSS-FARLEY |
| Musical Director |
ALEX LACAMOIRE |
| Technical Supervisor |
TOM S. BUSSEY |
| Production Stage Manager |
RENEE LUTZ |
| Assistant Stage Manager |
TAMMY SCOZZAFAVA |
| Assistant Director |
SARAH GURFIELD |
| Casting |
DAVE CLEMMONS CASTING |
| General Management |
EGS |
| Producer |
NANCY NAGEL GIBBS
RIOT ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
ROBYN GOODMAN
MICHAEL ALDEN
JEAN DOUMANIAN
THE PRODUCING OFFICE
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| Associate Producer |
PAM PARISEAU
GREG SCHAFFERT
MIKE SKIPPER
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| Originally Developed in
NYC by |
THE DIRECTOR'S COMPANY |
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| DEVEN MAY (Bat Boy) comes
to us from L.A. via "Viva" Las Vegas where he had the pleasure of
originating the role of Griangiore in the U.S. premiere of Notre
Dame de Paris. In LA, Deven met Keythe, Brian, Larry, Kaitlin and
the Bat Boy and fell in love with the Bat. Deven originated the role
and received the honor of winning the 1998 Ovation Award for Best Lead
Actor In A Musical for his portrayal of Bat Boy. Now here in NYC he’s
a-buzz with excitement and can’t wait til you, too, can hold your Bat
Boy. |
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KAITLIN HOPKINS
(Meredith) is thrilled to be back in NYC after 8 years in LA.
Recent theatre includes: Shaw’s The Philanderer (South Coast
Rep.), Blithe Spirit and The Importance Of Being Earnest
(Pasadena Playhouse). Musicals: John Adam’s I Was Looking At The
Ceiling..., directed by Peter Sellars and Johnny Pye And The
Foolkiller (Lambs). TV includes: "The Practice," "Jag," "Deep
Space Nine," "Spin City," "Voyager" and the Hallmark movie "The Ransom
Of Red Chief." Films: Crocodile Dundee In LA and How To
Kill Your Neighbors Dog with Kenneth Branagh. Deepest gratitude to
my husband, The Gage Group and Steve Unger for their constant support. |
| SEAN MCCOURT (Parker)
Broadway acting credits include It Ain’t Nothing But The Blues
and Titanic. Off-Broadway: Woody Guthrie’s American Song,
Last Romeo, Yiddle With A Fiddle, Portable Pioneer, Honky Tonk Highway,
June And Jean, Nice Country. Author/composer credits include Ten
Years Apart (Cincinnati Playhouse, Ordway), Last Romeo
(Melting Pot, Penguin Rep.), Let It Snow (Marcus Brothers Film
Score), Stick Figure Dancing (MPWest Records). For more
information, visit www.seanmccourt.com. |
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KERRY BUTLER (Shelly)
appeared on Broadway as Belle in Beauty And The Beast, Eponine
in Les Misérables and Ms. Jones in Blood Brothers.
Films include Campfire Stories, Borough Of Kings and the CBS TV
movie Second Honeymoon. Most recent TV: "One Life To Live."
Other NY credits include the workshop of Bright Lights, Big City
(NYTW), The "I" Word (EST) and The Folsom Head (Currican
Theatre). |
| KATHY BRIER (Maggie/Ron)
Off-Broadway debut. NYC: DREAM...A Musical Romp In The Woods (Raw
Space), Tango Ballad (The Actors Studio), Torch Song Trilogy
(The Genesius Guild). Regional/Stock: I Ought To Be In Pictures,
Funny Girl, Cinderella, Godspell and The Haunted Hotel.
Thank you to my front row - especially Mom and Dad! Special thanks to
Mrs. Jorin and all involved in Bat Boy, for making this an
amazing journey. |
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DARIA HARDEMAN
(Ruthie/Ned) A Native of Middletown, OH, Daria is thrilled to make
her NY debut. Having performed throughout Europe and the U.S. she was
most recently seen originating the role of Jesse in Urban Cowboy,
the new musical. Many thanks to God, family and cousin Fred and To:
Wong Foo, Thanks for everything! |
| TRENT ARMAND KENDALL
(Reverend Hightower/Mrs. Taylor/Roy/Institute Man) is an actor,
singer/songwriter, writer and recording artist. Recent credits:
"Strangers With Candy," (Comedy Central) Wizard Of Oz, Nunsense
A-men!, UDU (NY), Five Guys Named Moe, Hey, Mr. Producer!
(London) Children Of Eden, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Hair, From My Hometown,
(Regional) Smokey Joe’s Café, Finian’s Rainbow,
Joseph...Dreamcoat (First Nat’l Tour). Debut CD: Introducing
Trent Kendall (Dress Circle, London). For information about
upcoming projects: www.TrentKendall.com. |
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JIM PRICE (Bud/Daisy/Pan)
Jim was raised in Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan
with a degree in Economics. He attended the American Conservatory
Theatre, toured internationally with Les Misérables and
made his Broadway debut in The Civil War in 1999. He has done
more workshops of new plays and musicals than any actor in the history
of the world. |
| RICHARD PRUITT (Sheriff)
Broadway: On The Waterfront. Off-Broadway: Wicked
Philanthropy. Regional: Macbeth, Great Expectations, Tartuffe,
A View From The Bridge, Sweet Bird Of Youth, HMS Pinafore and
others. Richard would like to dedicate this performance to the lights
of his life, his two sons, Cody and Jesse. |
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DOUG STORM (Rick/Lorraine)
back in NY after living like a rock star in Las Vegas originating
"Quasimodo" in the U.S. premiere of Notre Dame de Paris, coming
soon to B’way. Other NY credits include: Les Misérables,The
Scarlet Pimpernel, Terrence Mann’s Romeo & Juliet, The
Civil War, Chess, Neil Berg’s Prince & The Pauper,
Jesus Christ Superstar in concert (Judas). Recordings: Notre
Dame de Paris, Tim, A Tale Of Two Cities, Prince & The Pauper,
Carmina Burana (St. Louis Symphony). TV: Backup singer for Linda
Eder on PBS, "E!", "CNN Showbiz Weekly" and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
Parade, Carnegie Hall, Caesar’s Palace. |
| CHARLES GRAY
(Swing/Understudy) Broadway: Teen Angel, Grease. Regionally:
Soloist, Riverdance, The Show; Matthew Henson, 90 North,
Kennedy Center; Judah, Joseph and the Amazing...; Castrone, Volpone,
Shakespeare Theatre, Washington D.C.; Eat Moe, Five Guys Named Moe;
nomination for The Denver Drama Critics Award, A Brief History of
White Music. |
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LESLIE KRITZER
(Swing/Understudy)
Headshot and bio not available. |
GAVIN CREEL (Swing/Understudy)
Headshot and bio not available. |
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| KEYTHE FARLEY (Co-author) has
written for the Independent Spirit Awards and "Rugrats," which he also
voice-directs. He has appeared on "Beverly Hills 90210," "Sisters" and
the HBO movie And the Band Played On. Keythe directed the
original production of Bat Boy The Musical. He is a member of
the Actors’ Gang and a graduate of UCLA. |
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BRIAN FLEMMING (Co-author), a
playwright, screenwriter and film director, wrote and directed Nothing So Strange, a feature-length faux
documentary about the assassination of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
that won the New York Times Claiborne Pell Award for Original Vision at
the 2002 Newport Film Festival and also appeared at the Slamdance Film
Festival, South by Southwest, Taos Talking Picture and many other
festivals. He also wrote and directed the feature Hang Your Dog in the
Wind (Special
Jury Prize, 1997 Florida Film Festival), co founded the one-time Park
City festival Slumdance and worked as a segment producer for the
Independent Film Channel show Split Screen. He maintains a
weblog at www.slumdance.com/blogs/brian_flemming. |
| LAURENCE O'KEEFE (Music and Lyrics)
Music/lyric credits include the NY tours of the Hasty Pudding
Theatricals and the children's musical The Magic Sparrow
(Primary Stages and Ubu Rep.). As a member of LA's Actors' Gang: Imaginary
Invalid (Theatre LA Ovation Award), Euphoria (LA Weekly
Awards for Musical Of The Year and for music, Ovation Awards for same)
and Bat Boy (LA Weekly Award, Musical Of The Year, BackStage
West Award for music). A grad of USC's Graduate Film Scoring program,
he has scored movies including: Every Night and Twice on Sundays,
the musical/mockumentary of Dorothy McHugh, the Ziegfeld girl who
returned to showbiz at age 85 with "Help, I've fallen and I can't get
up!" ‘Twice On Sundays’ won Best Documentary at several film
festivals. The Prince Music Theatre premiered his short musical The
Mice as part of 3hree, produced by Harold Prince. 3hree
opens at the Ahmanson Theatre this April. Buckets of love and gratitude
to Brian, Keythe and Anne; Deven and Kaitlin; Scott; the Actors' Gang;
Nancy and the producers; all casts/crews; the American Academy of Arts
and Letters and the Jonathan Larson Foundation for their generous
grants; and the greatest lyricist of all time, Nell Benjamin. |
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SCOTT SCHWARTZ (Director) directed Jane
Eyre with John Caird at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre and co-directed Jane
Eyre at La Jolla Playhouse. He directed Lavender Girl as
part of 3hree (Prince Theatre), conceived by Harold Prince.
Other credits include: No Way To Treat A Lady (York Theatre and
Signature Theatre in Washington, DC), Only A Kingdom (Pasadena
Playhouse), Chekhov’s Three Sisters (Annenberg Center), Dames
At Sea (Virginia Stage Company), the new musicals Silver Dollar
and Urban Myths (Stage One) and the current nat’l tour of Godspell.
For radio: The Prisoner Of Second Avenue starring Richard
Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason for LA TheaterWorks (Grammy Nomination, Best
Spoken Comic Album). He authored a stage adaptation of Willa Cather’s My
Antonia and a multimedia adaptation of Antigone. Member of
the SSDC and graduate of Harvard University. |
| CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI (Musical Staging) Godspell
(national tour) and Moon of the Carribees (Flea Theater). TV:
"2000 Tony Awards," "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" and "Out of The Box"
(Disney Channel). Industrials: McDonald's, Microsoft,
Pontiac/Buick/GMC. Other NY credits: Leprechauns (Off B'way),
BC/EFA Easter Bonnet Competition, winner Gypsy of the Year Award for Cats,
First You Dream (The Actors' Fund/Christopher Reeve Foundation).
Broadway/tour credits as a performer: Fosse, Cats, How To
Succeed..., Guys and Dolls, Evita, Betty Buckley at Carnegie Hall.
"Star Search" Grand Champion. Love and thanks to his family, friends
and his angel. ILYX08 |
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RICHARD HOOVER (Co-Set Designer)
Theatre includes: The Idiot (Manhattan Ensemble Theatre), Twelfth
Night (The Guthrie Theatre), House Arrest (The Public
Theatre), Tony Award winning Not About Nightingales (Circle in
the Square/The Royal National Theatre). Other regional work: The
Milwaukee Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum,
Pasadena Playhouse and The Old Globe Theatre. Film design includes: Mothman
Prophecies (Mark Pellinton), Girl Interrupted (Jim Mangold), Fail
Safe (George Clooney), Cradle Will Rock, Dead Man Walking and Bob
Roberts (Tim Robbins), Payback (Brian Helgeland/Mel Gibson), The
Prime Gig (Greg Moser), Apt Pupil (Bryan Singer) and "Twin
Peaks" (David Lynch). |
| BRYAN JOHNSON (Co-Set Designer) has
worked in NY on many B’way and Off-B’way shows including Swing!,
Carousel and Arcadia as a designer or associate. He designed Mytholojazz
at the New Victory Theater. He received a 2000 Emmy award for his work
on the daytime drama "All My Children." A graduate of Tisch School of
the Arts and a native New Yorker from Brooklyn, he is very happy to be
part of Bat Boy The Musical. |
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FABIO TOBLINI (Costume Designer)
Off-B’way: Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Nat’l Tour: Godspell.
Regional theatre: The Comedy of Errors and Misalliance
(Alley Theatre), Man of La Mancha (Goodspeed Opera, Long Wharf
Theatre). For venues such as The Caramoor, Juilliard and Manhattan
School of Music, opera credits include: The Magic Flute, Dido and
Aeneas, Lucrezia Borgia, La Cenerentola, Tamerlano and Atalanta.
Also: The Duchess of Malfi and Red Noses (Juilliard Drama
Department). |
| HOWELL BINKLEY (Lighting Design)
B’way: The Full Monty, The Best Man, Minnelli on Minnelli, High
Society, Parade, Kiss Of The Spider Woman, My Thing Of Love, Sacrilege,
Taking Sides, How To Succeed..., Grease!. Regional: Alley,
McCarter, George Street, La Jolla, Guthrie, Mark Taper, Old Globe,
Shakespeare Theatre (DC). Dance: Parsons Dance Company (Co-founder),
ABT, Peter Pucci Plus, Joffrey Ballet (Billboards). Winner ’91, ’93,
’95, ’98 Helen Hayes Awards and 1993 Olivier Award. |
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SUNIL RAJAN (Sound) After two years
with the wacky folks of Bat Boy The Musical, Sunil is ecstatic
that it has finally reached Off-Broadway! Sunil's work has been heard
in a variety of places, including: B’way, Off-B’way, feature films and
studio recordings. Thanks to everyone who was there for us in 2000,
and especially Amanda and Marlon! |
| ANN CLOSS-FARLEY (Hair and Makeup
Artist) is a member of the Actors' Gang and evidEnce Room theatre
companies. L.A. Credits: Andramache, Flow My Tears, No Orchids for
Miss Blandish, Hush, Fairy Tales and Swapmeet.
Awards/nominations: Euphoria, Plastica Fantastica, Illusion,
Broadway, Bat Boy, Cinderella Medea Macbeth, Saved, XXX Love Act and Ugly's
1st World. Ann played the role of Shelley in the L.A. production
of Bat Boy. |
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ALEX LACAMOIRE (Music
Director/Orchestrator) is proud to have been involved with Bat
Boy since its first NY workshop. Most recently, he acted as Music
Director/Arranger for the Phoenix Theatricals tour of Godspell.
The cast album was released earlier this year (DRG Records). Other
productions: Pippin (Paper Mill Playhouse) and Working
(Long Wharf Theatre). Love to his family and to his wife, Sarah. |
| TOM S. BUSSEY (Tehnical Supervisor)
Broadway, Off-Broadway, Corporate and Special Events credits include
Disney's Beauty and the Beast (NYC, Los Angeles, Toronto, 1st
national tour), Jackie Mason's Love Thy Neighbor and Much
Ado about Everything, Band in Berlin, The Primary English Class, Spirit,
the American launch of Princess Cruises' Grand Princess, Nike Supershow
1997, Times Square 1999, 2000, BMW North America Dealer Meeting 2000,
Rockeffeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting 2000, and the Louis Vuitton
Classic Car Show at Rockefeller Center 2000. |
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RENEE LUTZ (Production Stage Manager)
Recent credits: Krisit (Primary Stages), Book Of The Dead
(Public), The Designated Mourner, directed by André
Gregory and The Moment When by James Lapine. Numerous Off-B’way
and regional productions at Barrington Stage, Yale Rep., Lincoln
Center, Berkshire Theater Festival, American Music Theater Festival,
MTC, La Jolla Playhouse, Coconut Grove and others. Best credit and
longest run: her husband, actor Gordon Stanley. |
| TAMMY SCOZZAFAVA (Assistant Stage
Manager) Credits include: Book of the Dead (Second Avenue)
(Public Theatre), The Designated Mourner (Wallace Shawn, Andre
Gregory), The Moment When (Playwrights Horizons), A
Klezmer’s Tale: Yoshke Muzikant (Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre), La
Terrasse (MTC), The Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Barrington Stage
Company. She thanks Jordan and Reneé for their love and
support. |
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SARAH GURFIELD (Assistant Director)
Recent credits: Liberty Smith (National Alliance for Musical
Theatre) and Death On The Mississippi (Step Lively Productions).
Upcoming: 8 x 10 (NYTW) and The Grave White Way (Hudson
Theatre, Los Angeles). |
| DAVE CLEMMONS CASTING (Casting) is
Dave Clemmons, Rachel Hoffman and Davis Kirby. Credits include:
Broadway/touring companies: The Civil War; Off-Broadway: The
Donkey Show, Godspell; touring companies: Cinderella, Phantom,
Godspell, Jekyll & Hyde, Sound of Music, Smokey Joe's Café,
Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Chicago, Grease. Regional: Notre
Dame de Paris, Little Shop of Horrors (Alley Theatre). |
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EGS (General Management) Nina Essman,
Nancy Nagel Gibbs, David Stone and Marcia Goldberg’s management credits
include The Vagina Monologues, Fully Committed, Taller Than A
Dwarf, If Love Were All, James Naughton: Street of Dreams, De La
Guarda, The Lion King, Over the River..., I Love You, You’re
Perfect..., Visiting Mr. Green, The Last Session, The Diary of Anne
Frank, Full Gallop, Rent, Smoke on the Mountain, How to Succeed..., The
Santaland Diaries, Smokey Joe’s Café, Guys & Dolls, David
Merrick’s 42nd St., Prelude to a Kiss and Family Secrets. |
| NANCY NAGEL GIBBS (Producer) has been
an Associate Producer, General Manager and Company Manager on and
Off-Broadway for twenty years. She recently Co-Produced The Big
Bang at the Douglas Fairbanks Theatre and is Associate Producer on Fully
Committed at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Her current General
Management credits include the Off-Broadway productions of De La
Guarda, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (NY and Boston).
With EGS Management, her General Management credits are: (Broadway) The
Search For Signs 2000, Taller Than A Dwarf, (Off-Broadway) Fully
Committed, Vagina Monologues, Street Of Dreams and If Love Were
All. |
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RIOT ENTERTAINMENT, INC. (Producer)
was founded by a group of young theatre professionals, including Cori
Gardner and Dave Clemmons. They are thrilled that this is their first
production and look forward to a long future producing new works. Cori
is the House Manager at the Ford Center (owned by SFX Theatrical
Group). Her credits as a Stage Manager include: Triumph of Love
and David Copperfield - Dreams And Nightmares, No Way To Treat A Lady,
and I Do! I Do! |
| ROBYN GOODMAN (Producer) was the
Co-Founder of Second Stage Theatre and Artistic Director with Carole
Rothman for the first 13 seasons, during which time they produced 50
plays, won 17 Obie Awards, 3 Theater World Awards, 4 Outer Critics
Circle Awards, 4 Tony nominations and the first Jujamcyn Award for
excellence. For the past two seasons, she was Director of Artistic
Development at Manhattan Theater Club. Currently operating Aged In
Wood Inc., she is Associate Producer on A Class Act (Broadway)
and is the Creative Director of the Minetta Lane, Orpheum and the Union
Square Theaters and the Royal George Theater Center in Chicago. |
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MICHAEL ALDEN (Producer) first got
bit by theatre with the off-Broadway and Los Angeles productions of The
Last Session, followed by the L.A. production of Howard Crabtree’s When
Pigs Fly and Save It For The Stage-The Life Of Reilly by and
with Tony Award-winning comedian Charles Nelson Reilly. Feature films
include The Zookeeper starring Sam Neill, Just Cause,
Lesser Prophets, Mother, Mother and the award-winning UnZipped. |
| JEAN DOUMANIAN (Producer)
produced Woody Allen’s past eight films, including Bullets Over
Broadway (seven Academy Award nominations, one Academy Award), Everyone
Says I Love You, Deconstructing Harry, Celebrity, Sweet And Lowdown
and his TV movie Don’t Drink The Water. Also: David Mamet’s The
Spanish Prisoner and Barbara Kopple’s documentary Wild Man Blues.
Off-B’way includes: Death Defying Acts, Dinah Was, Peter
Ackerman’s Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight and The New
Group’s What The Butler Saw, (dir. Scott Elliott). Her first
production was the Academy Award nominated The Ox (dir. Sven
Nykvist). |
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THE PRODUCING OFFICE (Producer) is
Kevin McCollum and Jeffrey Seller, producers of Rent (1996 Tony
Award-Best Musical, 1996 Pulitzer Prize-Drama) and De La Guarda,
which is now playing at The Daryl Roth Theatre in New York and the Rio
Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas. |
| PAM PARISEAU (Associate Producer)
has served as Artistic Director (Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center and
The Chiswick Park Theatre), Literary Manager and Casting Director
(Musical Theatre Works), Creative Director (National Artists Management
Company) and Associate Producer (Off-Broadway production of The Big
Bang). She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory. |
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GREG SCHAFFERT (Associate Producer)
has spent the last 25 years working in every facet of the theatre with
Nancy Nagel Gibbs and David H. Bell developing new works. Future
projects include Steve Murray’s Rescue & Recovery and Mark
St. Germain’s and Randy Court’s Joseph & Mary. |
| MIKE SKIPPER (Associate Producer)
This native Texan has produced many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.
Some Broadway credits include Damn Yankees with Jerry Lewis, Play
On!, The Civil War and On the Waterfront. Off-Broadway
shows include the current hit The Vagina Monologues, along with
others including Cobb, Lifegame, Jam on the Groove, Moscow Stations
and Manchild in the Promised Land. Mike lives in New York and
Fort Worth, Texas. |
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THE DIRECTORS COMPANY (Michael Parva,
Artistic/Producing Director) is a non-for-profit theatre company
developing and producing new plays and musicals, while nurturing
outstanding directorial talent. Home to the renowned Harold Prince
Musical Theatre Program, projects include: Bat Boy The Musical,
3hree, The Ballad Of Little Jo, Eliot Ness In Cleveland, The Passion Of
Frida Kahlo, Avow, Splendora, Nightmare Alley, The Hidden Sky. |
