American Tales

At ANTAEUS: You Can’t Take It With You, Cousin Bette, American Tales, The Man Who Had All The Luck. Other Theater: The Unexpected Man (Geffen Playhouse), Cloud 9 (LA Stage Company), Kalamazoo (Pacific Resident Theatre), Beyond Therapy (L.A. Public Theatre), The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Actor’s Theater of St Paul), Fiddler on the Roof (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre). TV/Film: Grey’s Anatomy, ER, Star Trek: The Next Generation, House of Lies, CSI: Miami, The West Wing, Providence, American Zombie. Web Series: Aliens Anonymous, Empty Space, Riley Parra. Voiceover: Monsters University, WALL·E, Up, A Bug’s Life, Ben 10.

Phil Proctor is a 15-year member of Antaeus and a 50-year member of the thrice-Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre, recognized as one of the “Thirty Greatest Acts of All Time” with a recording in the Library of Congress. He’s appeared on-and-off Broadway, on street corners in the USSR with the Yale Russian Chorus, in many local and regional theatres, on radio, and in scores of films, video games and TV shows. He’s won Theatre World, LA Weekly, LA Free Press and Drama Critics’ awards, and his voice credits include Toy Story, Spirited Away, Monsters, Inc., Seahorse Bob in Finding Nemo, the Drunken French Monkey in Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Vidic in Assassin’s Creed, and Howard DeVille in the Emmy-winning Rugrats, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is currently featured in the independent films Window of Opportunity, Charity and The Love Addict and tours in a one-man reading of Don Quixote with the L.A. Guitar Quartet.

Peter Van Norden has appeared in Antaeus productions of Hamlet (Drama Critics Circle, The Hothouse (2019 Ovation Award for Best Actor), Macbeth, The Liar, American Tales, The Man Who Had All The Luck, and The Zip Code Plays. Other recent appearances include: The Tempest, An Interactive Production at Shakespeare Center LA (where he also covered and performed for Tom Hanks as ‘Falstaff’ in Henry IV, Parts I and II); Red Ink at Playwrights Arena (2020 Ovation Award nomination); 1776 and Singin’ in the Rain at La Mirada Theater; and for three years as ‘Ebeneezer Scrooge’ in A Christmas Carol at the Rubicon Theatre Company. In his native NYC he appeared in Little Johnny Jones (with Donny Osmond), Hamlet (with both Kevin Kline and Sam Waterston), Jungle of Cities (with Al Pacino), Henry V (with Meryl Streep), and Saint Joan (with Lynn Redgrave). His many regional theater appearances include the lead roles in both George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (at San Jose Rep) and Misalliance (at Center Stage, Baltimore). Peter was the first American actor to appear in the title role of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III at Arizona Theatre Company (where he also appeared in Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys). Film and TV roles include leads in The Accused (opposite Oscar winner, Jodie Foster), Police Academy (as Steve Guttenberg’s inept partner), The Naked Gun 2 ½, and the Stephen King mini-series, The Stand. Petervannorden.com

At ANTAEUS: American Tales. Other LA Theater includes: Of Good Stock, Elemeno Pea, Misalliance, Collected Stories (South Coast Repertory); Boeing Boeing, Dinner With Friends (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts); The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder (The Theatre @ Boston Court); Taking Steps (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble); Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre); The Seagull, Orlando (The Actors Gang) and many others. Film/TV: I Am I, Callers, Noise, The United States of Leland, Self Storage, Sons of Anarchy, Castle, Numb3rs, Gilmore Girls. melanielora.com. Twitter: @missmelanielora.