When Claudia gets pregnant she has a very clear plan for how she wants to give birth. Her pre-natal anxieties inspire her father to create a device for safer deliveries and Claudia realizes that nothing ever goes quite as expected.

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.

Bump was written by Chiara Atik

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