90024: Westwood All Information Herein Is Classified
Written by: Deb Hiett
Directed By: Carolyn Ratteray
Episode Available: November 12, 2020
Directed By: Carolyn Ratteray
Episode Available: November 12, 2020
Fresh from participating in her first street protests, 80-year old Eleanor Pender McAdams seems an unlikely subject for an FBI investigation — but who really has the upper hand? This “official file” of recordings and interviews reveals the complexities of standing up for something bigger than yourself in the modern world.
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Cast
Bo Foxworth*
DANIEL GATLIN
Bo has been a proud member of Antaeus for a decade now appearing in productions of Measure for Measure as Lucio/Juliet, Cloud 9 (LADCC and Stage Raw Best Actor Winner), Henry IV, The Liar, The Crucible (Ovation nomination), the title role in Macbeth, The Seagull and The Malcontent. Other LA theater includes Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing with SOC and Arthur Miller’s The Price at I.C.T., Henslowe in Shakespeare in Love at South Coast Rep, King Charles III at Pasadena Playhouse and Building The Wall at the Fountain Theatre. He has also worked at The Skylight Theatre, Ensemble Theater Company, La Mirada, Laguna Playhouse, The Geffen, Disney Hall, LATheatreWorks, Theater @Boston Court, The Hollywood Bowl and A Noise Within where he received two Ovation nominations. He has worked in numerous theaters in NY including a year in the Off-Broadway Way hit As Bee’s in Honey Drown at the Lucile Lortel. He has appeared in regional theatre’s through out the country including The Long Wharf, Yale Rep, The Shakespeare Theatre, Vienna’s English Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, The Old Globe and many others. He has numerous film and television credits including Modern Family, VEEP and the HBO movie All The Way starring Bryan Cranston. He is a graduate of UCLA and received his Masters at Yale School of Drama.
Dawn Didawick*
ELEANOR PENDER McADAMS
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.
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Catia Ojeda*
LISA BOTSWORTH/ CAMMIE McPHERSON RANDALL
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
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Production Team
Carolyn Ratteray
Director
At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure. Other Theatre: Gem of the Ocean, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Imaginary Invalid, Tartuffe (A Noise Within); Father Comes Home from the Wars (Mark Taper Forum); The Cake (Echo Theatre Company and The Geffen Playhouse); Pygmalion (Pasadena Playhouse); The Mountaintop (Garry Marshall Theatre); How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (Theatre@ Boston Court). TV/Film: Grey’s Anatomy, Lincoln Lawyer, Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS, The Young and the Restless, Seasons of Love, Riley Parra. Training: BFA, New York University; MFA, The Old Globe, USD.
Deb Hiett
Writer
Deb Hiett’s full-length plays include The Super Variety Match Bonus Round! (Rogue Machine Theater, Los Angeles); Miss Keller Has No Second Book (Gulfshore Playhouse, Naples, FL); The Escape Thingy and The Clearing in the Jacoby (both Finalists for the Reva Shiner Comedy Award). Her short play The Presentation was selected for the 2017 Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival, and was a Finalist for 2017 Heideman Award.
Deb’s short film Open House won Los Angeles Film Festival/FunnyorDie’s “Make ‘Em LAFF” Showcase, Best Comedy Short at the Women in Comedy Festival Film Night, and Best Video Short at iOWest’s Funny Women LA Festival. Her short film A Bit of Counseling (co-written with Richard Kuhlman) won the Audience Awards at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and the L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival. She’s a proud member of Antaeus Playwrights Lab, Playwrights Union, and Dramatists Guild. Deb is also an actress, musician, and regular panelist on the NPR comedy/quiz show “Says You!” More at DebHiett.com
*member, Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule
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