The Winter's Tale

At ANTAEUS: The Winter's Tale. Other LA Theater: The Open Fist Theatre Company (King Lear, Dancing at Lughnasa, Walking to Buchenwald); Sierra Madre Playhouse (Deathtrap), and many projects as actor and director with the Classical Theatre Lab. International Theatre: Saskatoon and Vancouver Fringe Festivals; National Theatre of Norway. Education/Training: Brown University, UCLA, Circle in the Square Theatre School, and HB Studio.

At ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Top Girls, Uncle Vanya, Diana of Dobsons, The Winter’s Tale. Other theatres (select): La Mirada Theatre, L.A.T.W., EST/LA, New Canon Theatre Company (Monterey), Book-It Rep (Seattle), Harlequin Productions (Olympia), MainStreet Theatre, Will Geer Theatricum, and the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, where Shannon recently performed in the American premiere of the new musical Bluebeard’s Castle. Film credits include The Dangle (Best Short at the CA International Film Festival), The Unknown, and the upcoming shorts Seasons and When You Sleep. As a writer, Shannon has made the Top 50 List in the Nicholl Screenwriting Competition and been a finalist for fellowships from Stowe Story Labs, among others. Thanks to years spent living an alternate life at sea, Shannon holds a Merchant Marine license from the U.S. Coast Guard. Education: LAMDA and Princeton University.

At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, As You Like It, Hedda Gabler, Cloud 9. Other Theater: Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse. Recent appearances include Tolstoy in Suffolk (Studio C Artists), For Piano and Harpo (Garry Marshall Theater), All the Way (South Coast Repertory). TV: The Orville, Aquarius, Bones.

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.

At ANTAEUS: Debut. At South Coast Repertory: The Little Foxes, Pacific Playwrights Festival, Raisin in the Sun (u/s), A Christmas Carol (u/s). Other Local Theaters: The Davidson/Valentini Theatre (Los Angeles LGBT Center), Hudson Theatres, African American Theatrical Ensemble. Regional Theaters: Ashland New Plays Festival, Commonwealth Shakespeare Theatre, The Player’s Theatre, Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre, Perseverance Theatre. International: World Shakespeare Congress (Brisbane, Australia). TV + Shorts: Getaway, The Life and Death Of…, Dying Cowboy, Rotten Apple, Good Mourning. kacihamilton.com 

At Antaeus: The Winter's Tale, ClassicsFests: Candida, The Hot L Baltimore, and multiple in-house readings. Off-Broadway: Charlie Chaplin in My Man Kono (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, A.R.T./ New York Theatres; world premiere). Regional and Los Angeles credits include South Coast Repertory, San Diego Repertory Theatre, East West Players, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Marriott Theatre, Quintessence Theatre Group, Theatre Mu, Perseverance Theatre, Northern Sky Theatre, Next Act Theatre, First Stage/ the Marcus Center, Classical Theatre Lab, and others. Trained under Philippe Gaulier at École Philippe Gaulier in France and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. 

Sabrina J. Liu is a Los Angeles and San Diego-based actor. At ANTAEUS: Debut. Regional credits: Here There Are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse), In Every Generation (San Diego Repertory Theatre), Electra (National Women’s Theatre Festival). Sabrina has also contributed to new work development at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, and San Diego Repertory Theatre. She graduated in 2023 from the University of California, San Diego with her MFA in Acting. Sabrinajliu.com

At ANTAEUS: Debut! SoCal Theaters: South Coast Repertory, Musical Theatre West, Ammunition Theatre. Other Theater: Asolo Repertory, Theatre Latté Da, Oklahoma City Rep, TheatreSquared, Mixed Blood, Olney Theatre, Children's Theatre Company, San Diego Repertory, Forestburgh Playhouse, Theatre Mu, Pan Asian Repertory, The Village Theatre, NAAP, NYTW. Film: Daruma. Voiceover: Squid Game, The King's Affection, Queenmaker, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Winston Chu vs. The Whimsies. IG: @asian_with_a_camera

Peter Mendoza was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He studied theater, stage combat, and dance at East Los Angeles College. At ANTAEUS: Belyaev in Three Days In The Country. Other Theater: Oscar in Sweat (Mark Taper Forum), Elliot in Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Oedipus in Oedipus El Rey (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Digital Stage), Henry Reyna in Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum, U/S); Hason in Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (The Rep. Theatre of St. Louis); Rafael in La Piedra Oscura; Don Carlos in Los Empeños de una Casa, Paco in Salon Mexico, Don Juan Tenorio in El Burlador de Sevilla (Bilingual Foundation of the Arts). TV: Perry Mason (HBO), From Scratch (Netflix), Shooter (USA), NCIS (CBS), Snowfall (FX), Casual (HULU), On My Block (Netflix). Film: Dead Bullet, Nathan's Kingdom, Parasites, Tecato, Hello to Never, Ana Maria in Novella Land.

Ned is happy to be on the ANTAEUS stage again. Other Antaeus productions include Hedda Gabler and Native Son. He had the pleasure of reprising his role in Native Son at the Kirk Douglas Theatre when it was chosen to remount in 2019 as part of their annual Block Party. Other LA Theater credits include the Los Angeles premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's A Permanent Image at Rogue Machine Theatre and All My Sons at Pacific Resident Theatre. In Chicago, Ned worked at The Goodman Theatre, The Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Organic Theatre, and many other Midwest regional theaters and Shakespeare festivals. In his other life as a fight choreographer, Ned built the fights for Hamlet and Les Liaisons Dangereuses at ANTAEUS.

Ann Noble is a Chicago Native with over twenty-five years of professional experience in the theatre as an actor, playwright, director and educator.  In addition to teaching at Antaeus, she currently teaches at Berg Studios (Technique I & II) as well as at the Hyperion Arts Center/Studio A Dance (Scene Study).  As a director, her recent credits include Smoke with LifeChild Productions and Moonshine Mamas with Two Heads Are Better Productions.  With Antaeus, she recently directed two of the Classic Sunday Readings of Shaw’s St. Joan and Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, which she is slated to co-direct in its full production this winter with Armin Shimerman.  As an actor, her credits with Antaeus are Hedda Gabler, The Crucible, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time, The Liar and The Malcontent.  Her other theatre acting credits include: BLISS, or Emily Post is Dead  with Moving Arts; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, and Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story of Barack Obama’s Mother all with LA’s LGBT Center; Other Desert Cities with ICT of Long Beach; American Dead with Rogue Machine; Orange Flower Water with the Victory; Belfry with Malibu Playhouse; An Ideal Husband with Sierra Madre Playhouse; The Fall To Earth, Bedroom Farce and London’s Scars with the Odyssey; Betrayal with ETC of Santa Barbara; Sidhe, And Neither Have I Wings To Fly, The Friendly Hour, Big Death & Little Death, Shove and Bunbury all with the Road; and over six productions with South Coast Rep.  She also teaches acting and writing to incarcerated/at risk youth at several schools/institutions around LA including Homeboy Industries, and also works as a theatre director/instructor for youth at LA’s LGBT Center and LA’s Museum of the Holocaust.  She is the current Casting Associate for Antaeus, and, also, will be directing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar for Warriors For Peace this fall.

AT ANTAEUS: 90024: Westwood (The Zip Code Plays) Circle Forward, Turning Over (Lab Results). Los Angeles Theatre: Brendan (Theatre Banshee, Ovation nomination), It is Done (Site-Specific, dir. Michael Michetti). National Tour: The 101 Dalmatians Musical, dir. Jerry Zaks. New York & Regional Theatre: Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Gallery Players, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Engeman Theater, Ogunquit Playhouse, Riverside Theatre, FL. TV: Series Regular on Amazon’s Just Add Magic, Recurring Guest Star on AppleTV’s Surfside Girls and Netflix’s Malibu Rescue. Numerous guest appearances include: Selena: The Series, Grey’s Anatomy, Hawaii Five-O, American Housewife, Criminal Minds, 30 Rock, Law & Order. She starred in the indie feature film Closure which picked up seven festival awards including two for Best Actress (Austin Indie Fest, Marbella International Film Festival, Spain). She’s occasionally recognized as “that wife” or “that mom” from “that commercial.” She’s also a real-life wife to writer/director Alex Goldberg, and a real-life mom to their two sons. www.catiaojeda.com

Theater credits include work at the Old Globe, Theatricum Botanicum, Bucks County Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Harlem Shakespeare Theater company. Film/ TV includes: Madam Secretary, Shadow of Doubt, Morbayassa (Official Cannes and SIFF films festivals), Les Pirogues des Hautes Terres (Official Monte Carlo TV Festival), Pandemic Bread (LA Asian Pacific Film Festival).Instagram: @clairesimba  clairesimba.com

At ANTAEUS: Hamlet, Cloud 9, As You Like It, Henry IV, Part One, The Curse of Oedipus. Other Theater: Pasadena Playhouse, CTG - The Kirk Douglas and Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, International City Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Disney Concert Hall, 6th Act, Chalk Rep, The Blank, EST/LA, Boston Court, Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Road, Chautauqua Theater Company (NY), Center for New Performance/Huntington Gardens, numerous Off- and Off-Off-B’way. Film: Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon I & II, Taken 3, Bloody Bridget, Zombie Strippers, Deceit. TV: The Good Doctor, Jane the Virgin (recurring), Orville, Scandal, Castle, 90210, Medium, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Victorious, Chemistry, As the World Turns (recurring), among others. Emmy Award Winner for When Things Get Small. VO work in video games, TV/online narration, ads, audio drama podcasts, dubbing, and educational programming. Faculty member at CalArts School of Theater. M.F.A.: UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse, B.A.: Duke (Magna cum laude).

At ANTAEUS: Appeared in The Malcontent, Tonight at 8:30,  The Man Who Had All the Luck, Mercadet, Mother Courage, ClassicsFest in 2006 and 2008; co-directed The Crucible.  Other directing credits include A Walk in the Woods at Sierra Madre and Ruffian on the Stair. He appeared on Broadway in Translations and An American Daughter;  several Off-Broadway productions and tours. Radio work with LA Theatre Works in The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial and Top Secret. Extensive regional work includes South Coast Rep, La Mirada Theater, Lincoln Amphitheatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and The Rep Theatre of St. Louis. Also Pennsylvania Stage, Center Stage, GeVa, the Guthrie, Denver Center and Carbonell nominated performances at the Caldwell. Many leading roles at Vermont’s Weston Playhouse. TV: NCIS, Brothers & Sisters, Numbers, ER, Justice, Monk, Scrubs, King of Queens, Law and Order, and so on. Film: City Hall and the award winning short Tres. He is the staff photographer at ANTAEUS, and has taught at the Academy since 2003.

Elizabeth Swain is an actor, director and teacher, and a member of Antaeus. Directing includes The Winter's Tale (Antaeus); Hamlet (Antaeus); Measure for Measure (co-directed with Armin Shimerman (Antaeus); Romeo and Juliet and Two Noble Kinsmen (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival); An Evening of Betrayal (The 6th Act); 3 Hamlets; 2 Macbeths; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Malcontent (Antaeus); The Rover and The Lucky Chance; and several new plays, most recently The Gatekeepers by Dan Perry. She directed a zoom production of The Comedy of Errors for the Classical Theatre Lab, for whom she has directed many staged readings, including Tartuffe, Richard I & II. For Antaeus she has directed six ClassicsFest readings.

At ANTAEUS: King  Lear, Macbeth, The Liar, ClassicsFest 2010-11; The Tempest (A Noise Within); Hamlet (The Globe Playhouse); Little Women (Kennedy Center, National Tour); Skylight (The Studio Theatre); Becket (Olney Theatre Center; Henry V with Harry Hamlin , Henry VI (parts I-III)  and Measure for Measure with Kelly McGillis (The Shakespeare Theatre);  The Seagull with Gwyneth Paltrow and Christopher Walken, Our Town with Calista Flockhart and James Whitmore (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: J. Edgar, Lifeform, Fall Time, The Hollywood Sign, and Species 2. He has also toured Fringe Festivals with his award winning one-man show, Kill Your Television. Jeff has sound designed numerous productions at Antaeus including Wedding Band and is the resident foley artist at L.A. Theatre Works.

At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Crucible, Cousin Bette. Other Theater: Devil And Billy Markham (award winning one man show, Zenith Ensemble); Pulp Shakespeare (Asylum Theatre); Delusion (Haunted Play); Hamlet (ASC); A Midsummer’s Night Dream (ASC). TV/Film: Bell Canyon, The Wasteland (Historian), Unfriended, To The Beat, To The Beat 2, Saint George, Weeds. Training: B.A., University of Massachusetts @ Amherst, Antaeus Theatre Company , Lecoq Mask Intensive, Studio 24/7, To Play Not Work Studio.

Kaite is pleased to be working with Antaeus for the first time. As an actor: Warriors for Peace Theatre, Chase What Flies, the Unlikely Shakespeare Company, GreenRoom Theater, Downtown Repertory Theater and the Sierra Madre Shakespeare Festival. Additionally, Kaite holds a degree in directing and teaches Shakespeare and the Theatrical Arts.