Publisher Description
When Claudia gets pregnant she has a very clear plan for how she wants to give birth. Her pre-natal anxieties inspire her father to create a device for safer deliveries and Claudia realizes that nothing ever goes quite as expected. Includes a conversation with playwright Chiara Atik and Dr. Judith Reichman, an OB/GYN and longtime medical contributor to The Today Show. Bump is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in October 2020. Directed by Rosalind Ayres Producing DIrector: Susan Albert Loewenberg Lucy DeVito as Mary, Apple, Receptionist Anna Lyse Erikson as Lemon, Third Woman Alma Martinez as Maria Anna Mathias as Midwife, Avocado, Doula Ana Ortiz as Claudia Moira Quirk as Walnut, Mama, Second Woman Herbert Sigüenza as Luis André Sogliuzzo as YouTube Guy Devon Sorvari as Grapefruit, Waiting Mother Inger Tudor as Narrator, Plum, Different Mama Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson Recording Engineer, Editor and Sound Designer: Neil Wogensen Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner Mixed by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
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About the Narrators
Devon Sorvari is an Earphones Award–winning and Audie Award–nominated narrator. She graduated from NYU’s Circle in the Square program and the Classical Studio. She has nationwide theater credits ranging from Shakespeare to musicals.
Moira Quirk, a British actress and Earphones Award–winning narrator, co-narrated Ben Bova’s Mercury and has narrated other popular audiobooks for which she received Audie Award nominations. She is a successful comedian and can be heard on Nickelodeon’s cartoon My Life as a Teenage Robot as well as in The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd, The Wild Thornberrys Feature, and Serendipity, among others. She has also lent her voice to several video games, including Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and Haunting Ground.
André Sogliuzzo has
been working in the Los Angeles region for the past fifteen years as a voice
actor. He has provided voices for countless characters in movies, animated
programs, and video games, though he has also had some appearing roles in
several movies. André’s area of expertise is the wide array of accents that he
can provide for various characters, which has permitted him to work with some
of the best voice actors and actresses in the country.
Richard Montoya is a founding member of the
satirical performance trio Culture Clash. Montoya became involved at an early
age with art and politics and in particular with the potent mix of Chicano
aesthetics and activism. Like his father José Montoya—the legendary Chicano
artist, poet, and musician—Richard is a multifaceted writer, poet, and talented
graphic artist.
Kiff VandenHeuvel, voice talent and audiobook narrator, is originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is an alumni of the Second City comedy theater. He is an accomplished improviser and sketch comedy director, and he teaches voice-over, improv, and directing at Second City Hollywood. He has appeared in hundreds of television and radio commercials and is well known in the video game community as the voice of Zachary Hale Comstock in Bioshock: Infinite.