The Bat: Improv In The Dark
An improvised nod to the golden age of radio
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CURRENT SEASON
Saturday, May 1st, 6:00pm Pacific
Friday, May 21st, 7:15pm Pacific
Saturday, June 26th, 6:00pm Pacific
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Cast
Annie Barry
(she/her) Annie discovered improv in 2009 at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in New York City. She became obsessed with long form and made it her life's work to always be watching it, performing it, or doing obnoxious bits in social situations. Annie is a cast member on "Swipe Right" and "The Bat". She also performs around Seattle with her indie team, The Bad Boys of Ballard. Annie is the Artistic Director and Founder of Bandit. She can't wait to meet you.
Jesse Warren
(he/him) Jesse is a software engineer but quit in 2017 to pursue comedy. He can do 19 handstand pushups. Jesse is a cast member on Bandit's Swipe Right and Bat shows. He puts so much kale into his morning smoothies it's not even funny. Jesse has competed in the Seattle International Comedy Competition and was a Standup NBC semifinalist. He practices gratitude daily but only because it optimizes his performance. Jesse co-founded the nationally touring tech roast show Socially Inept. He owns a High Performance Planner but he doesn't use it - not high performance enough for him. Jesse, at the time of writing, has over 100,000 followers on social media. As you read this that number will have plummeted. By now he's almost certainly given up on comedy and returned, tail between his legs, to Microsoft.
Kevin McVey
(he/him) Kevin's improv is characterized by his love of detail-rich nonsense and high dedication to bad ideas. Brought up in the Virginia comedy scene in 2010, Kevin now performs in The Reader and The Bat with Bandit Theater and produces the indie comedy mashup Ten Percent Luck with Yeah Okay. He's also Bandit Theater's Education Lead which means he spends just as much time performing and teaching improv as he does organizing spreadsheets and reading really dry books about comedy. One time he was in the news for getting trapped in an elevator and some say he should have stayed there.
Chris Carter
(he/him) Chris Carter is a writer and performer living in Sammamish with his wife, daughter, son, and dog. Raised in Colorado, schooled in Vermont, deprived in Los Angeles and New York, debauched in Prague, heartbroken in San Francisco, and crushed once more in L.A., he is overjoyed to have found a home at Bandit. Chris has written for the animated series “Hello Ninja!” and "Shezow," and the DGA-award winning short "Collectibles." He has a BA from Middlebury and an MFA from UCLA and studied Academy Improv, Sketch, and Character at UCB in L.A.
Chris Li
(he/him) Chris fell in love with improv theater ever since he took a class on clowning in college and now performs in the Seattle area in The Bat with Bandit Theater and with Scriptless In Seattle. He has training in acting from Freehold Theater and improv at Unexpected Productions. When he's not performing, he plays Bass Guitar and runs a DIY electronics YouTube channel.
Cailey Nickerson
(she/her) Cailey Nickerson has been doing sketch and improv around the Seattle area since 2014. She makes up one half of the improv/sketch comedienne duo Bathwater, and is an ensemble member at Jet City Improv where she has been in productions such as The Bechdel Test and GLIMMER. Her Bandit shows include Bring Back the 90s, Channel Surfers and now, BAT. She is thrilled to be a part of this ensemble and grateful for the ability to do make em ups from home.
Darshi Shary
(she/her) Darshi is very excited to be part of the Bandit Theater’s BAT Cast! Darshi started her Improv journey in Chicago at The Second City, iO, and The Chicago Improv Den, then finding her way to Seattle in Jet City Presents Shows and the rich and supportive Seattle indie improv community. A BravoTV enthusiast, she is very thankful for blogs, donuts, and predatory sealife.
Jeffrey Nickels
(he/him) Jeffrey is a Seattle-based improv and sketch comedy performer, producer, and coach. Notable credits include performing in Ten Percent Luck with Yeah Okay, producing horror comedy with Sam and Jeffrey, and guiding several sketch groups through their first performance with the Pocket's Summit program.
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being" -Carl Jung
He hopes you've been well.
Sophia Hatz
Sophia is a comedian and actor from CA who enjoys playing make-em-ups to delight and connect the audience to the story. She might still smell like gum from all the years she’s spent hoofing it around the Market Theater performing. She’s played in, and developed, long form shows with CSz Seattle’s The Loop, and now plays with Bandit theater’s cast in The Bat.
Directed by Mack Suits Baer
(he/him) Mack has been doing improv for 10 years, but didn't take any formal improv classes until he enrolled in Bandit's training program in 2019. Mack currently performs in the cast of Swipe Right, and has performed in Seattle with indie teams Lowbrow, Mean Streak, Recovering Catholics, and KEITH.