The Seagull

Antaeus member since 1991. At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, The Seagull, The Malcontent, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, The Ugly Duckling, Mercadet, Pedrolino & The Hanky of Doom, The Blind One-Armed Deaf Mute, and The Wood Demon.  ClassicFest: Cyrano de Bergerac, Richard III, Lucky Chance, Merry Wives of Windsor, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, Penny For A Song, Collaborators. He is a master teacher of commedia dell’Arte, which he studied under the late Carlo Mazzone-Clementi. LA theater: The Capulets & The Montagues, The Importance of Being Ernest (LAWS); The Arsonists (LA  Weekly  nominee); Fafalo!, Golden  State (Dell’Arte); Master  Class (Mark Taper); La Bête, Bullshot Crummond, Footlight Frenzy and productions at The Powerhouse, Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, The Magic Theatre (S.F.). Film & TV: Almost Broadway, Born Yesterday, Book of Love, Night of the Comet, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Days of Our Lives, McBride, Lazarus Man, Quantum Leap, and the role of Don Kipper on CBS’ Bailey Kipper’s P.O.V. John also teaches workshops in commedia dell’Arte with Studio Zanni & the Antaeus Academy, and various classes at Santa Monica Emeritus College and the University of Redlands.

At ANTAEUS: Glass Menagerie, Native Son, Cloud 9, Picnic, The Liar, The Seagull, Tonight at 8:30, Mother Courage, Pera Palas, Trial By Jury; and directed The Importance of Being Earnest and You Can’t Take It With You. OTHER STAGE:  Pasadena Playhouse, Old Globe, Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Mirada, ETC Santa Barbara, Rubicon, MainStreet, Skylight, Blank, Odyssey, Boston Court, Playwrights’ Arena, and New York’s Public Theatre. FILM:  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Amsterdam, Alex and Emma, etc. TV: Recurring on NCIS: Origins, Platonic, Loot, Chicago Fire, Clipped; guest appearances include: Hacks, The Last Thing He Told Me, 9-1-1 Lone Star, Terminal List, S.W.A.T., American Horror Story, Jane the Virgin, etc.  2013 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Leading Actress for portrayal of Maria Callas in Master Class at International City Long Beach; and L.A. Drama Critics Circle Natalie Schafer Award and an Ovation for Solo Performance for her solo comedy Non-Vital Organs. Gigi coaches actors and is a career mentor. gigibermingham.com

At ANTAEUS: Cloud 9, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Seagull, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, Pera Palas. Other Theater: Primary Stages, South Coast Repertory, Ensemble Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre, Black Dahlia, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, L.A. Theatre Works, Pasadena Playhouse, Rogue Machine Theatre. Film: Hypnotized, Life As We Know It, He’s Just Not That Into You, Ravenous. Television: recurring on Major Crimes, Shameless, Kendra; series regular on Public Morals, Total Security, NYPD Blue. Spoken Word: Sit ‘n Spin, Rant & Rave, Spark Off Rose, as well as numerous other storytelling venues. Billbrochtrup.com

THEATRE: AT ANTAEUS (selected): The Seagull (Masha), Dunsinane (Gruah), Pink Mirror Dance (Nuce) & John Gabriel Borkman (Fanny). MATRIX: StickFly (Kimber) – best ensemble Ovation, LADCC, Garland & NAACP, LA Weekly nominated. ROAD – Pursued by Happiness by Keith Huff – best actress Stage Scene LA; Flower Duet by Maura Campbell – best ensemble Stage Scene LA. THEATRE GROUP OF SANTA BARBARA: The Heiress (Catherine Sloper) TV: Criminal Minds, NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy, Medium, ER, Dawson’s Creek, Joan of Arcadia, Tanner on Tanner, Love Life, & The Forgotten. FILM (leads): Double (Cannes),  Life with Fiona (Rome Int’l), Selena Incident (Cannes), & If I Could Tell You – releasing summer 2015.

Dawn Didawick is a founding member. Her varied career has taken her from New York to Europe in the classics and new works. Broadway: All My Sons (Tony Award Best Revival), Regional credits include Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Long Wharf Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Globe Theater in San Diego, Alabama Shakespeare Theater, ART, Seattle, St Louis, and South Coast Repertory Theaters.  Her roles ranged from Dee Dee in Marsha Norman’s The Laundromat to Juliet, Hermia, Titania, Gonzala in works of Shakespeare to Amy and Clara in The Show Off, both productions with one of her theater mentors, Jean Stapelton. She has appeared with her husband, Harry Groener, in many productions including Caught in the Net at The Coconut Grove and Regrets Only at The Cape Playhouse.  Her participation in the development of new works included stints at New Harmony, The Gathering and The Colony (both in Montana). She serves as an honorary board member of The Alpine Theater Project in Whitefish, Montana, and has served as a long time board member of The Antaeus Company. At ANTAEUS: The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Bear, Pera Palas, Autumn Garden, The Seagull, The Crucible, Uncle Vanya, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (multiple nominations and Stage Raw Award for Supporting Female Performance for “Big Mama” )and Three Days in the Country. Over the years she has participated in many Classic Fest readings and workshops, including her favorite as Amanda in Glass Menagerie. Representative film and T.V. credits: Erin Brockovich, Christmas with the Kranks, The Amateurs, I Am I, Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse, Hart of Dixie and Pretty Little Liars.

At ANTAEUS: Henry IV, Part One, King Lear, The Seagull. Other Theater: Shipwrecked! (Geffen Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (South Coast Repertory), Cyrano, The Homecoming, Waiting for Godot (The Matrix Theatre Company), Found Dog Ribbon Dance (Echo Theater Company). LADCC Awards for The Homecoming, The Birthday Party, Waiting for Godot. He received a Tony Nomination for his work in The Kentucky Cycle and two Emmy Nominations for his portrayal of President Charles Logan on FOX TV’s 24. He is luckily married to the Lovely Judie, he has two fairly grown children, Julia and Wilke and is the proud Grandfather of Wylder, son of his daughter-in-law Talia and Wilke.

At ANTAEUS: The Seagull, ClassicsFest in 2011 and other workshops, Oedipus The King, The Rover, Camino Real (Antaeus A2). West Coast Premiere of Our Lady Of 121st Street (The Matrix), understudy for Take Me Out (The Geffen), Bambino (Carlsbad Playhouse). Other shows Streetcar Name Desired, Golden Boy, Six Tarantulas On An Angel Foodcake. Film/Tv: CSI Cyber, Dallas, The Mentalist, Gang Related, CSI, Burn Notice, Arrested Development, CSI Miami, Outlaw, Meet the Browns, Days of our Lives And Many Others. Oliver Stone’s Savages, The Line, The Davinci Treasure. Special thanks to Richard Seyd, Jeanie Hackett and Jack Stehlin for their support and guidance.

Adrian LaTourelle has appeared in numerous television series such as NCIS, Castle, The Legend of Korra, Last Resort, The Closer, House, NCIS:LA, Boston Legal, Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, Numbers, Sons of Anarchy, and Days of Our Lives. His many stage credits include work in some of the best theaters in the country, such as the Mark Taper Forum, the Shakespeare Theater in DC, The Old Globe, the San Jose Rep, the Dallas Theater Center, ANTAEUS, and the Yale Repertory Theater.  Adrian has also worked abroad, performing in theater and film in Russia and the Netherlands.

(Co-Director of Measure for Measure, The Crucible, and Shakespeare teacher at Antaeus). He is a highly regarded actor and is best known to television audiences as Quark, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He portrayed Leo Tolstoy in Discord for both the Noho Arts Theater and the Geffen Theater. Broadway: Threepenny Opera; St. Joan; I Remember Mama, and Broadway.  Selected Regional Theater: King Lear (Fool), Road to Mecca (Marius),The Seafarer (Blind Irishman -San Diego Critics Circle Award for Best Actor: San Diego Repertory); Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor (The Old Globe); Henry V (American Shakespeare Festival); Hoagy, Bix, Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhouse (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Threepenny Opera, Camille, Wild Oats (Guthrie Theatre).  Selected LA Theater – Birthday Party (LA Drama Critics Circle nomination – Lead Performance: The Matrix Theatre); Hamlet, As You Like It (Theatricum Botanicum); Misalliance, Juno and the Paycock (with his wife, Kitty Swink), Standup Shakespeare (Odyssey Theatre); Richard II (Mark Taper Forum).  At ANTAEUS:  The Seagull, Macbeth, and many Classic Fests.  TV: 80 different Guest Star roles, including Antaeus the Nox on Stargate, Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Judge Hooper on Boston Legal, and recently on CSI, Castle, and Franklin and Bash. As a voice-over artist, he was the long running voice of General Skarr on three different animated shows. In the field of video games, he has participated in over two dozen, acclaimed for his voicing of Dr. Nefarious in the Ratchet and Clank franchise as well as Andrew Ryan in the Bioshock series.

At ANTAEUS: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Seagull, Autumn Garden, numerous readings and workshops. Best known for his eight seasons playing the father, Red Forman, on That ’70s Show.  Other TV credits include series regular roles in both season of Resurrection and Worst Week. Recurring Roles on 24 and Medium, as well as Guest Starring onHouse and numerous other shows.  Films include RoboCop, Dead Poets Society, To Die For, Citizen Ruth, Time To Kill, Deep Impact, Girl Interrupted, Cedar Rapids and appears in the recently released Hitchcock. Theater credits include South Coast Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage and Film, Los Angeles Actors Theatre, California Actors Theatre, and California Shakespeare Festival.

At ANTAEUS: Henry IV, Part One, The Crucible, Macbeth, The Seagull, The Autumn Garden, and ClassicsFest projects A Delicate Balance and Wrecks. The Old Globe: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Best Actor Award), Lincolnesque (Best Featured Actor Award), The Price, The Savannah Disputation. La Jolla: Glengarry Glen Ross (Nominated Best Featured Actor Award). Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Conversations with My Father, The Changing Room, Hamlet. Off Broadway: Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Regional Theater: Other Desert Cities, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, The Price, A Perfect Wedding, A Man for All Seasons, Antony & Cleopatra, A Christmas Carol. Film/TV: IMDB will tell all.

At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, The Seagull, Peace in our Time, You Can’t Take It With You. Other Theatre Credits: O Rejane (Bootleg Theater); A Christmas Carol (North Coast Rep); Julius Caesar (New Village Arts); The Passion Play (Odyssey Theater); The Lion in Winter (Broadway Theatre, Vista, CA); King Phycus (Hollywood Fringe Festival “Best of Fringe”). TV credits include: The Last Ship, The Ex List, Life on Mars, recurring on Rizzoli & Isles. Has appeared in over a dozen national commercials and several webseries’ including Combustion and Clothing Optional. As well as directed, starred, and edited the webseries Family Valuables and Sidekick & Roommate. Studied acting at Carey Scott’s Rehearsal Room in San Diego, the summer Shakespeare program at RADA, and several Academy classes at Antaeus. A proud member of the Antaeus Company. Website: https://www.pwwolff.com/

At ANTAEUS: The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, Mercadet and Mother Courage. She also has appeared as Madame Arkadina in The Seagull and in several ClassicsFests, most recently as Lady of Larkspur Lotion and as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.  Other stage credits include works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Wilde, Caryle Churchill, A.R. Gurney, Stoppard, Williams, as well as new plays and numerous adaptations produced Off-Broadway, at Arena Stage and the National Theatre in D.C., Pennsylvania Centre Stage, LA Theatre Centre, Laguna Playhouse, La Mirada, Theatre@Boston Court, ICT, The Odyssey and Pacific Resident Theater. She also was featured in The National Tour of Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) and Amadeus. A founding member of the Classical Theatre Company and longtime member of the The Colony Theatre, her work has earned her Ovation, LADCC, LA Weekly, Back Stage Garland and Robby Awards. TV/film credits include Up All Night, Men of a Certain Age, The Unit, 3rd Rock from The Sun, That 70’s Show and the award winning shorts, Mosaic and Creosote.  Laura graduated summa cum laude from UC Santa Barbara and received her Masters from Penn State University. She also studied at Circle In The Square Theatre School and with Milton Katselas’ in his Saturday Master Class.

At ANTAEUS: The Liar, The Seagull, The Malcontent. Theater: Macbeth, Pericles, Eurydice, The Doctor’s Dilemma at A Noise Within; Hippolytos at the Getty Villa; Gruesome Playground Injuries at Rogue Machine; Othello, Fashion, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum; Stages at the Hudson Theatre; The Beaux Stratagem, Charles Mee’s Summertime, Butterfly Kiss, The Tempest, and Hamlet. Jules is also a member of the Pacific Resident Theatre where she has appeared in Becky’s New Car, Rachel Ray, Time of Your Life, Macbeth, Stanton’s Garage and The Contest which was followed by the critically acclaimed international premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. TV: Friends With Better Lives, Teen Wolf, 10,000 Days, CSI. Film: Styria, You’re Still Here, Snake and Mongoose. Education: MFA from University of California, Los Angeles.

 At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Seagull, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, The Thin Man. Los Angeles: Twelfth Night, Juliet and Her Romeo (Vanguard Rep); Shakespeare's King Phycus (The Flynnsmen). Regional: The Steward of Christendom (Mark Taper Forum); Ten Chimneys (Artists Repertory Theatre). New York: The Other Other Woman, The Merry Widows of Windsor, The Seduction of Adonis, Cupid and Psyche, The Comedy of Heirors (Turn to Flesh Productions); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Red Monkey Theater Group), Ira (Shrunken Shakespeare Company). TV: Zoey 101, iCarly, Sam & Cat. Proud member of Actors Equity Association and Antaeus.

At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, The Seagull, Macbeth, The Wedding Band. Theater: Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum), Tarzan, The Musical (3DTheatricals), Superior Donuts (Geffen Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre), The Odd Couple (Laguna Playhouse), Metamorphoses (Ensemble Theatre Company), Bars and Measures (The Theatre @ Boston Court), Bengal Tiger At The Baghdad Zoo (Ion Theater Company, San Diego Critic’s Circle Best Featured Actor). TV: Brooklyn Nine Nine, Good Fortune, Drake and Josh, Victorious, The Shield, As The World Turns. Brian is on the acting faculty at AMDA, College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts and has a BFA in acting from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

At ANTAEUS: The Seagull (LA Weekly Award nom., Best Supporting Actress), The Curse of Oedipus, The Liar, Cloud 9, Peace In Our Time, Macbeth and The Malcontent. Other recent theater: Fallen Angels (North Coast Rep); Reborning (The Fountain); Steel Magnolias, The Pursuit of Happiness, Love Loss and What I Wore (The Laguna Playhouse); Noises Off!  (The Rubicon - Broadway World Award nom., Best Featured Actress); I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Mary’s Wedding (The Colony); Trying (The Indian Wells Theatre); Sherlock's Last Case (Kinetic Theatre in Pittsburgh), as well as shows at The Production Company, The Getty Villa, The Skylight Theatre, The Zephyr, Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Television: Modern Family, Agent Carter, House, The United States of Tara, Medium, Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip, 1000 Ways To Die. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. JoannaStrapp.com

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country; Ah, Samolo; Autumn Garden; The Seagull; The Crucible; The Curse of Oedipus. She appeared as a child in featured roles in television, stage and film: Mrs. McThing (opposite Billie Burke), Mother Was a Bachelor, Summer and Smoke, The Innocents (Pasadena Playhouse), Lux Video Theatre, Matinee Theatre, Lassie, Father Knows Best, One Step Beyond, Wagon Train, Sugarfoot, Donna Reed Show, Perry Mason, Rawhide, Frank Sinatra Show, Escort West, Dr. Kildare, among many others.