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Peter Jorgensen - Director
Peter is an actor/ director/ choreographer/ writer and musical theatre aficionado based in Vancouver. Recent directing/ choreography credits include Oklahoma! (Chemainus Festival), Little Shop of Horrors (Persephone Theatre), and The Full Monty and Into the Woods (Patrick Street Productions). As an actor Peter has appeared locally in the Arts Club Theatre Company productions of Dirty Blonde, Dial M…for Murder, Dames at Sea, Forever Plaid, and She Loves Me (Jessie Nomination: Outstanding Performance). At the Gateway Theatre he has appeared in The Leading Ladies, Lend Me a Tenor, Dads: the Musical, and Forever Plaid (Jessie Award: Outstanding Ensemble Performance). He has also appeared at Bard on the Beach in Cymbeline, at the Vancouver Playhouse in No Great Mischief, and with Carousel Theatre he starred as George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life (Jessie Nomination: Outstanding Performance). With Royal City Musical Theatre he starred as Harold Hill in The Music Man and as Julian Marsh in 42nd Streeti and with Theatre Under the Stars as Josh Baskin in big: the musical. An alumnus of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, Peter spent two years after graduating performing in various off-Broadway productions such as That’s Life, Magic to Do: the Songs of Stephen Schwartz, the world premiere of Number the Stars, and the title role in Young Moses. Off-stage Peter is a private voice instructor, the founder and program director of the Arts Club Musical Theatre Intensive, and is a proud member of Theatre Cares Vancouver. www.peterjorgensen.com

Julie Martens - Set Designer

Creature & Prosthetics Design (TBA)

Amir Ofek - Costume Designer
Scenic and costume designer Amir Ofek recently moved to Vancouver after spending two years as the resident designer and theatre design instructor for Duke University Department of Theatre Studies in Durham, North Carolina. He graduated Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London, UK) with a BA in Theatre Set and Costume Design and Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) with a MFA in Theatre Scenic Design. Amir designed sets and costumes for numerous theatrical productions in London, Tel-Aviv, Boston, Massachusetts and Durham, North Carolina. Some of his latest productions include Spring Awakening, Pericles, the world premier of Shadow of Himself, House of Desires, Polaroid Stories and The Winter's Tale. You can visit Amir’s on-line portfolio at:
sceno.org/amirofek

Ingrid Turk - Stage Manager

Elizabeth Steele - Apprentice ASM

Sean Bayntun - Musical Director
Sean attained a Master's degree in Music, Piano Performance at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas, under the instruction of Dr. Jon Kimura Parker. His past teachers include his father, George, with whom he studied until age 15, and Dr. Robert Silverman during his undergraduate study at UBC. At the age of 16 Sean made his orchestral debut with the White Rock Symphony Orchestra. Two years later, he performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to an outdoor crowd of 10,000. As well as over 300 first place standings in BC competitions, Sean won each of the Junior, Intermediate, Senior and National championships at the BC Festival of the Performing Arts. At the 2002 Canadian Nationals in Lloydminster, Alberta, Sean was presented with the prestigious Blake Cherry Memorial Award, a special one-time-ever award for the most entertaining piano performance. He has been the rehearsal pianist, orchestral member and/or guest conductor in a number of Theatre Under the Stars' productions such as The King and I, Crazy for You, Big!, and Oklahoma. He was music director for Rice University's Bat Boy. Most recently, Sean music directed Songs for a New World at the Pacific Theatre. He currently teaches piano in Vancouver, holds the position of Musical Director for Ellesmere United Church at Simon Fraser University, and is the keyboardist/vocalist in the independent rock group, The Armadilettantes.

Chris Allan - Assistant Director
Chris Allan was born and educated in Vancouver and his ambition from the age of six was to work in the theatre. In 1960 he dropped out of UBC and went to London, England, where his first jobs were backstage in various West End theatres. He later toured throughout Britain in The Belle of New York and appeared on stage and television in various musicals. After turning to stage management, Chris worked on shows such as Amadeus and The Crucible (Royal National Theatre) and the West End productions of Chicago, A Little Night Musicand Cats. Directors Chris has worked with include Laurence Olivier, Trevor Nunn, Peter Hall, Noel Coward and Harold Prince. Chris returned to Vancouver in 1986 and has continued stage management work – for the Vancouver Opera, the Playhouse Theatre Company, Carousel Theatre and the Arts Club. He is currently writing a play about an extended family surviving the Twentieth Century (from New Year’s Eves 1899 to 1999) in a clapboard house in Vancouver’s East End.

Jeff Harrison - Lighting Designer
Jeff has designed over 40 shows in Vancouver and internationally and has been nominated for 4 Jessie Richardson Awards for his work, including Screaming Flea’s This Room is Moving and Theatre Conspiracy’s Live from a Bush of Ghosts. He is a graduate of SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts and attended the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts. Past design credits include The Full Monty (Patrick Street Productions), On the Ice of Labrador (Montreal Danse), Munsch Alley (Carousel Theatre), My Dad, My Dog (Boca Del Lupo), Train (Theatre Replacement), Grace (Pacific Theatre), and Oklahoma! (Chemainus Theatre Festival). Jeff is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

Scott Bellis - Dr. Parker
Scott has been an actor for over 20 years now. He's been in everything from Aristophanes to Mamet and is now very pleased to appear in his first real musical. Shakespeare has been a mainstay of his career, which has taken him through 30 productions at Bard on the Beach, where he has played lead roles in Hamlet, Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and Measure for Measure, among others. Some other favorite shows include Enchanted April, The Optimists and School for Scandal (Arts Club), The Cat Who Ate Her Husband and The Leisure Society (Ruby Slippers), and The Number 14 (Axis). He will direct Antony and Cleopatra at Bard on the Beach immediately after Bat Boy closes. Scott is a graduate of Studio 58.

Timothy Brummund - Sheriff
Timothy is honoured to be part of such a talented cast! His theatre highlights include the voice of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors (Arts Club Theatre/Citadel Theatre), I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Gateway Theatre), Dr Neville Craven in The Secret Garden (Stage Polaris), U/S Bill Austin/Sam Carmichael in Mamma Mia!! (Mirvish Productions), Assassins, Evita, Richard III, Cyrano de Bergerac, Polaroids of Don, Sunday in the Park with George, Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, Man of La Mancha, The Music Man, Grease and Psycho Beach Party. Timothy dedicates this show to his beautiful wife Colleen and their own little Bat Boy, Rudy.

Bree Greig - Shelley
Bat Boy being one of her favorite shows, Bree has literally been looking forward to this role for years! Bree was last seen playing the role of the Narrator in Footlight Theatre Company's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Bree is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston where she sang in the Tanglewood Festival Choir, the official choir of the BSO. Favorite roles include Nadine in The Wild Party and Luisa in The Fantasticks.

Katie Murphy - Ron, Mayor Maggie
beautiful coast from two years in Toronto, where she played in Queen’s megamusical We Will Rock You (Mirvish), at Metro Movement and the Parahumans Dance Theatre. Since coming home she completed a tour for Kaleidoscope Theatre incorporating drama with aerial silks, and the run of the Playhouse Theatre’s holiday hit Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Previously in Vancouver Katie has played Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street (RCMT), won the E.V. Young Award for her lead performance in Footloose (TUTS), and wrote and performed a physical one-woman show for the VFF. She has choreographed several full scale productions for Kaleidoscope and Theatre Ancaster and wins frequent prizes for her competitive dance choreography. Katie is a proud graduate of UBC’s BFA in Acting program, has numerous pages published in Canadian literary journals, and attributes all her accomplishments to her amazing husband and family.

Katey Wright - Meredith
Katey has had her eye on Bat Boy for years and is thrilled to sink her teeth into it at long last. A professional actress for over 20 years, she has played stages across the country, co-founded three theatre companies (including this one), volunteered countless hours with various arts organizations, and built a solid body of work in film, TV, voice-over, theatre, and musical theatre. Local highlights: Viola in Twelfth Night for Bard on the Beach; the title role in Little Mercy’s First Murder for Touchstone Theatre; Company and The Constant Wife at the Stanley Theatre; starring as Amalia in She Loves Me! at the Stanley Theatre and the Baker’s Wife in Patrick Street Productions’ inaugural show, Into the Woods. Katey is an Artistic Producer at Patrick Street Productions, a graduate of UBC’s BFA acting program, and mother to a beautiful 3-year-old. www.kateywright.com

Matt Palmer - Pan, Ned
Matt is very excited to be performing with this talented cast and terrific production team. Well... Actually this was written a few months before Matt even met the cast and production team sooooo technically speaking, he really didn't know how talented and terrific they were, at that time. I mean, I think Matt would just assume, you know, for the most part, that they were... Or are, I mean. Talented and terrific (respectively), that is. I mean, they got the part right? So that says something. But then, if you think about it, I guess we don't know if they were the first choice or not... Not that that means anything. I mean Harrison Ford wasn't the first choice to play Indiana Jones, that guy was Tom Selleck and look how well that turned out. I mean Selleck is great, I loved watching Magnum P.I. when I was a kid, but Harry's the man, you know? But really, when you think about it, who the heck am I to be talking about how Matt feels about the cast and production team anyway?! I really should just mind my own business. But I really think that Matt is very excited to be performing with this talented cast and terrific production team! There. Let's just leave it at that. Oh yeah, one more thing. The pic isn't Matt, that's his kid brother Billy. He's better looking.

Ian Rozylo - Rick Taylor, Lorraine
Ian is ecstatic to be playing both a man and a woman in this production of Bat Boy! For reasons not even he knows…. Well ….. Mainly cause he loves crazy, fun musicals, as you may gather from reading his past credits. Some of those theatre credits include Evil Dead (DSR Productions) The Rocky Horror Show (Stage west and The Arts Club) Three Penny Opera (Vancouver Opera) A Chorus Line (Ophidian Entertainment). He has also been seen in many locally filmed television shows. Fringe, The Guard (naked), Psych, Supernatural, Flash Gordon yada yada yada… Other aspects of the industry include Motion Capture, Couple Rockbands; check out The Opustree!, and a bit of Mixed Martial Arts to keep in shape.

Meghan Anderssen - Ruthie Taylor, Bud
Meghan is ecstatic to be a part of Bat Boy! She was most recently seen as Linda in Evil Dead (DSR) as well as Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie (TUTS). Other favorite past credits include: Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (TUTS); Cowgirl in Somewhere in the World (Charlottetown Festival); Crystal in Little Shop of Horrors (TUTS); Sally Simpson in Tommy (URP); Minnie Fay in Hello Dolly! (RCMT); and Urban Tap Squad. In her "spare time", Meghan is also a dance instructor and choreographer around the Lower Mainland. Meghan is a UBC graduate with her BA in Dramaturgy.

Hector Johnson - Rev. Hightower, Mrs. Taylor
...a storyteller  
Theatre - Mufasa in Disney's The Lion King, Curtis in Dreamgirls and Audrey II in Little Shop Of Horrors. Filmography - Sue Thomas F.B.Eye, Battlestar Galactica, 2103: The Deadly Wake, and Psych. Voiceover - Budlight; Spoken Word - Toronto's Poets Compilation CD; Singing - Motown/Soul music with BluSoul, founded Peace of Heaven (a 12-piece gospel ensemble); Toronto's DuMaurier Jazz Festival, Performed with folk/jazz singer Almeta Speaks and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, arranging two of her songs; Produces multidisciplinary art showcases.  
Studying space, silence, sound, movement, light, & the breath creates and supports the telling of a story... www.hectorjohnson.com