90069: West Hollywood Brunch, Interrupted

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

At ANTAEUS: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Autumn Garden and Mother Courage (LA Weekly Award). Other recent credits include: Good People at La Mirada, Three Views of the Same Object and Four Places (LADCC Award) at Rogue Machine Theater, The Savanna Disputation at the Colony Theatre and Kate in All My Sons (LADCC Award) at the Matrix Theater, Breadcrumbs at Theater 150 in Ojai, I Never Sang For My Father with The New American Theater Company.  She has also appeared in L.A. at the Mark Taper Forum, the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse, L.A. Theater Works, the Odyssey, and the Andak Stage Co.   Regionally, she has worked at South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe,San Diego Rep, Seattle Rep, La Jolla Rep, ACT, San Francisco Rep, The American Shakespeare Festival , Connecticut Rep, the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the McCarter, Princeton Rep to name a few.   She recently appeared on TV in Murder in the First and in the motion picture Wild.

First time with ANTAEUS!  With Celebration Theatre: The Producers, Booty Candy, The View Upstairs, Fucking Men, There's A Black Man in The White House. Hudson Ave. Other Theater: With Friends Like These; Bed, Boys & Beyond; It Started With A Lie. Musical Theatre West: Hello Dolly, Ragtime. Multiple productions of Dreamgirls including: CLO of South Bay, 20th Anniversary at TOTS Fox Theater(Atlanta), 35th Anniversary at The Ford Theater. TV/Film: Greenleaf; Old Dogs & New Tricks; BoomChickBoom; Tyrone Jones; Furst; Star Mapped; Bruise Violet; The Light; Nova.  BFA Musical Theater: Loretto Heights College. Member: AEA, SAG-AFTRA. 

Sean Abley is a screenwriter, journalist, dramaturg, novelist, and award-winning playwright. His most recent work, Tea Party, was part of Antaeus Theatre Company’s LAB RESULTS reading series. His plays have been developed and performed at the Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Celebration Theatre, Provincetown Theater, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, St. Louis Actors’ Studio, Write/Act Repertory, Factory Theater, Merry-Go-Round Youth Theatre, SkyPilot Theatre Company, and the Virginia City Players. Sean has an MFA in Playwriting from The Playwrights Lab at Hollins University, and is a member of the Antaeus Theatre Company’s Playwrights Lab, the Writers Guild of America, Playwrights Union (Los Angeles), and the Dramatists Guild.

Directing credits include: The Boy From Oz, The Next Fairy Tale, [title of show] and numerous others in his 14 year career at Celebration Theatre. Acting roles include: Fences (Troy; Ovation, LADCC Nominations, Lead Actor); Bootycandy (Man 3; LADCC nom, Stage Raw Win, Lead Actor); The Color Purple (Mister; Ovation Nom, Lead Actor); The Producers (Roger DeBris; Ovation award nomination); Steel (John Henry, Ovation Award, Lead Actor); Master Harold and the Boys (Sam, NAACP nom, Lead Actor); Intimate Apparel (George, NAACP Theatre Award, Supporting Actor); Choir Boy (Headmaster, NAACP Theatre nom, Supporting Actor). Broadway/Off-Broadway/Regional credits include: Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan (Starkey); Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey Two); Caroline, or Change (Bus/Dryer); 5 Guys Named Moe (Big Moe); Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Fred); The Whipping Man (Simon). TV: Soul Man, Hot In Cleveland, Adopt-able, Wizards of Waverly Place, Monk, Criminal Minds, NCIS.