Steven Anacker

Steven Anacker has improvised for over 10 years in New York and San Francisco. Throughout this time, he has received both joy and inspiration playing with the talented folks at Short Order Theatre, BATS Sunday Players, Lila Theatre, Un-Scripted Theatre Company and BoyGirlBoy, to name a few. Steven looks forward to once again stepping on stage and entering the great unknown.

Chet Anderson

Chet Anderson has been a BATS Sunday Player since way back in 2006. He got his start improvising in 2004 with East Bay Improv and still performs with them monthly, and has performed as a guest with Running On Improv. Chet regularly acts as the lighting improviser for BATS Main Stage Company shows.

Channing Clarkson

Bio coming soon!

Rich Cox

Rich started improvising in April 2002 at BATS and was infected immediately. Since that time he has not stopped developing his skills with a variety of instructors. Rich has been performing since 2002 with the Sunday Players, Go!, Tales of Horror (the Pulp Playhouse format), and through guest appearances with the BATS Main Stage Company in Theatersports, Micetro, The Life Game, Gorilla Theatre, The Harold, and other long-form plays and musicals.

Rich is also a musical improviser and a coach at BATS Improv and is an apprentice on the BATS corporate training team. In the "real world", Rich works at Entango — a company he co-founded, and serves as the President of BATS' Board of Directors.

John Fitzgerald

John has been improvising for a long time. He was a founding member of ART-C (the Aspen Ridiculous Theatre Company), and has performed with BATS Sunday Players, the BATS Longform Intensive Program, Know Nothing Improv and the Reactors.

Wynne Hegarty

Wynne got her start in improv in 2000, after friends who saw her impromptu impersonation of then-presidential candidate Al Gore urged her to take improv classes (or get help!) After one BATS class she was hooked and has been at it ever since. Wynne is the co-director and an original member of the Palo Alto based troupe Running on Improv and has been a BATS Sunday Player since 2005. When not improvising, Wynne is an elementary school teacher on the Peninsula and even there she sneaks it in by teaching improv after school to fourth and fifth graders.

Kevin Kouba

Kevin F. Kouba has been haunting the BATS Sunday stage from the early days of this millennium. He was a member of the BATS Long-Form Program ("Go") in 2006, and has appeared on the BATS Main Stage in the "Film Noir" that launched the May 2004 BATS Long-Form Festival and in "American Musical". A former denizen of the musical theater, Kevin made his stage debut at the age of seven, as an accordionist.

Vinnie Licata

Vincenta "Vinnie" Licata has been improvising since 1991 when she first started studying with Sue Walden of Flash Family. She has studied improv with Carol Hazenfield and Rafe Chase and has performed in improv shows with BATS Improv's Main Stage Company, the BATS Longform Intensive Program (BLIP), BATS' Sunday Players, Know Nothing Improv and Tales of Horror Theatre (based on the Pulp Playhouse format). Vincenta produced and directed her own long-form improv show, "The 60s Experience" at BATS in 2003.

Toni Mazucca

Toni grew up in Chicago where she began her improv studies with Second City, and performed her first student show on their main stage. Since then she has studied with BATS Improv, ACT in San Francisco, and in many private classes.

She has performed with several BATS groups (The Sunday Players, Young Audiences, and the Main Stage Company), and with improv companies such as The Reactors, KnowNothing Improv, and Who?. She has also performed in the improvised shows "The 60's Experience" and "Tales of Horror", the improvised film The Cure, and in this Summer's San Francisco Improv Festival. Toni recently wrote and performed her first solo piece as part of a workshop at the Marsh theater, and is currently shaping it into a full length show.

Kathy Mello

Kathy Mello has always loved to perform. In her youth she danced, did pantomimes, acted in plays and performed on a weekly radio show. She fell in love with improv theatre 10 years ago and has appeared with the Un-Scripted Theatre Company in the Impossible Film Project for the past two years. Kathy has been a Sunday Player with BATS Improv since 1997 and has appeared in some of BATS' Main Stage Company performances. Kathy had her first solo performance in July.

Andrew Merit

Andrew Merit would kill to improvise. Fortunately no one has yet said, “You?! Improvise!? Over my dead body!” He is thrilled to playing with the BrATS. He has performed with The Unemployed, The Know Nothings (directed by Regina Saisi), Running on Improv, BATS Improv (Sunday Players and as a guest performer with the Main Stage Company), and BionicImprov. He has studied with Dan O’Connor, Stephen Kearin, Rafe Chase, William Hall and David Razowski. His most recent film, The Lonely, directed by Mark Arellano is in production. He recently appeared on The World’s Astonishing News, the hit Japanese television show. Sadly, the show is only broadcast in Japan.

Joel Micucci

Joel is a performer and a contractor. More to follow soon.

Patricia Pearson

Although she did not accept the offer to attend the High School of Performing Arts in NY, Patricia belonged to the drama club and performed in plays in the school she did attend. Patricia took a big break from performing of any kind to live in Alaska and then Los Angeles as an illustrator and designer. She resumed performing after seeing her first improv show in 1999 and subsequently taking her first class at Improvworks. Patricia began taking classes at BATS in 2004 and became a Sunday Player the next year.

Ken Robertson

Ken Robertson is a graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory and has worked with the Denver Center Theatre Company, The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and the On-Edge stunt team. He is a published author and has been a featured instructor at the Video Game Developers Conference and for such companies such Pixar, Electronic Arts and Lucas Learning. He has studied improve with Second City Chicago, and has performed in the improv shows “How We First Met” and "Tales of Horror", along with guest appearances with BATS' Main Stage Company, and appearences with KnowNothing Improv, BATS Sunday Players, and The Un-Scripted Theatre Company.