When Claudia gets pregnant, she has a very clear plan for how she wants to give birth. Her prenatal 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