BATS Improv Announces Two Additions to its Main Performance Ensemble
Amos Glick and Kimberly MacLean Join Celebrated Improvisational Troupe

San Francisco (March 14, 2006) – BATS Improv, the Bay Area’s largest improvisational theatre company and school, announced the additions of Amos Glick and Kimberly MacLean to its performance ensemble. Glick and MacLean have spent the last nine months as guest players at BATS Improv.

Glick is currently earning rave reviews as “Dubya” in The Dick & Dubya Show, playing on stages around the Bay Area, and is a longtime performer with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and a regular guest performer with True Fiction Magazine. He has a wide range of experience as a sketch comedian, clown, puppeteer, film and voice actor, and improviser.

MacLean has over 15 years experience in performing and teaching both scripted and improvisational theatre, and is the director and a cast member of her own improv troupe, The Super Dupers.

BATS artistic director Dave Dennison said, “Amos and Kimberly possess the level of talent and extensive performance backgrounds that BATS seeks when adding ‘new blood’ to our performing company. Throughout their guest tenure, these two became invaluable players and made an already strong troupe even stronger.”

BATS is regularly voted the Bay Area’s best improv and/or comedy troupe by critics and audiences, and its company players include nationally and internationally acclaimed improvisers, many of whom have performed together for more than 16 years. BATS celebrates its 20 th year of performing and teaching improvisational theatre in November 2006.

John Kovacevich , BATS’ executive director, said, “We’re delighted to have added Amos and Kimberly to our main stage company during this anniversary year. BATS has a lot of special performances, events and promotions in the coming months, all of which will give audiences a great opportunity to enjoy the additional star power that Amos and Kimberly bring to our company.”

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Acclaimed by critics as “bounce-in-your seat funny,” “consistently hilarious” and “ San Francisco's premiere improvisational theatre”, BATS Improv has been a leader in the Bay Area's innovative improv theatre scene for nearly twenty years. Fifty weeks a year, BATS presents a series of completely improvised shows in a variety of formats—from comic competitions to improvised musicals and everything in between. BATS has also gained a reputation as one of the best schools of improvisational theatre anywhere in the world, and offers improv classes and workshops to individuals, corporations, non-profits and other groups. BATS attracts students from all over the United States, and as far away as Australia, England, and Japan.

Additionally, BATS offers free improvisation classes through its “Laughing Stock” program to people living with HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis C, cancer, and other chronic, life-threatening illnesses. Classes focus on strengthening quality of life through humor, physical activity, group interaction, risk-taking, and imagination games.

Media Contact:
Sara J. Butz
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General Information:
BATS Improv
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