As You Like It

Written by: William Shakespeare

Directed by: Rob Clare

ADVISORY

Recommended for Ages 12+

Shakespeare’s sparkling comedy illuminates the courage of a young woman casting off the constraints of her world and starting anew in the Forest of Arden. Funny, hopeful, tender, and wise, As You Like It subverts the traditional rules of romance and moves us through all the seasons of love.



PRODUCTION TEAM

Director: Rob Clare
Production Stage Manager: Kristin Weber*
Stage Manager: Daniel Ferreira
Scenic Designer: François-Pierre Couture
Lighting Designer: Leigh Allen
Costume Designer: A. Jeffrey Schoenberg
Composer and Sound Designer: Peter Bayne
Props Designer: Anya Allyn Kolesnikoff
Text Coach: Elizabeth Swain
Assistant Director: Victoria Pearlman
Assistant Director: Rachel Berney Needleman
Assistant Stage Manager: Jessica Osorio
Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager: Kristin Rogers

Cast

At ANTAEUS: Macbeth, Peace in Our Time, Hay Fever (Classicsfest), John Gabriel Borkman (Classicsfest). Theatre credits include Hamlet in The Hamlet Project (Loose Canon Collective); Come Back, Little Sheba (A Noise Within); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (PCPA); As You Like It (Waterworks Theatre Company); Threepenny Opera, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Bacchae, Measure for Measure (UC Irvine); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Western Michigan University); Or What You Will (OSF Green Show); Titus Andronicus (Roundabout Theatre). Paul recently worked on a new HBO series, Videosyncrasy, with director, David Fincher. Other Film/TV credits include Danni Lowinski (CBS), All is Forgiven (Kitty Choir/End of May), Fetch (On Purpose Pictures), My Roommate The (Lucreative Productions), and more. He has studied at the British American Drama Academy and received a BA in Acting from Western Michigan University and an MFA in Acting from the University of California-Irvine.
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At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, Diana of Dobson's,  As You Like It, Henry IV Part I, Measure for Measure, and The Curse of Oedipus. Other theater: Vietgone (The Alley Theatre), Sense & Sensibility (South Coast Rep); Love's Labour's Lost, Edward III, and Cyrano de Bergerac (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Hamlet (The 6th Act); Frankenstein (A Noise Within); The Hard Problem and Vietgone (LA Theatreworks); Gloria and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide (Curious Theatre Company); Colony Collapse (Boston Court Pasadena); Supper (Theatre of NOTE); Rose and the Rime (Sacred Fools); and 99 Histories (Artists at Play). She holds degrees in Theatre and Business from UNCo. DesireeMeeJung.com
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At ANTAEUS: (Founding Member) Hedda Gabler (Stage Raw Award), As You Like It (Ovation Award nomination), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Ovation Award nomination), The Curse of Oedipus and others. Theater: Most recently as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (La Mirada Playhouse), Mark Taper Forum, American Conservatory Theater, South Coast Rep, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Matrix Theatre, La Mirada, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Center Stage, Milwaukee Rep and the California, Oregon, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals (Fallstaff Nomination 2015, title role in King Lear at USF). Tony was an associate artist, actor, and director at Berkeley Rep from 1980-1990. Directing Credits: SavagesFilumenaThe Night of the Iguana (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The TempestThe Merchant of Venice (California Shakespeare Theater), All’s Well That Ends Well (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Film: BlowMask of ZorroAnnabelleMeddler, John Sayles’ Lonestar, and soon to be released La Llorona. TV: I’m Dying Up Here, Dexter (recurring), Shooter (Recurring), NCIS, The Mentalist, Stargate SG1 (Bra-Tac), Continuum (Kagame series regular), Once Upon a Time (recurring as Gepetto), Castlevania. VO & Mo-Cap: Walden Pond, World of Warcraft, Fallout, Black Ops.
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John Bobek*

AMIENS/DENNIS
At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson's, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Three Days In The Country, As You Like It, The Hothouse, ClassicsFest: Ah! Wilderness and The Inland Sea. Other Theater: Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to Hamlet, DISASTEROID! (Sacred Fools Theater Company); Stupid F**king Bird (Boston Court Pasadena, U/S); Mental: The Musical (Edgemar Center for the Arts). Television: A Series of Unfortunate Events, American Crime, Longmire, Battle Creek, The West Wing, Rizzoli & Isles, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, Happy Endings, Castle. Film: When a Stranger Calls, Stomping Ground, Freshwater, Recoil. Original music available under John Bobek on iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Spotify, BandCamp. B.A. Theatre Arts, Marquette University. Represented by The Glick Agency. johnbobek.com or imdb.me/johnbobek
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Emily Chase*

DUKE SENIOR
Emily Chase recently directed Eight Nights at Antaeus (LA Times Critics Choice, Ovation Recommended). Her other directing credits include Dakin Matthews’s Divorce Court Hell  (Antaeus); productions at Sierra Madre Playhouse, The Road Theatre, Theater 40, and numerous developmental workshops at Antaeus, The Road Theatre, Playwrights Union, Moving Arts, Met Theater, and Classical Theater Lab. Her past classes at the Antaeus Academy include: It’s Alive! The Nuts and Bolts of Acting in New Plays; Modern Classics; and Ringing the Rafters: Voice for the Classical Actor. She has taught acting and directed productions at UCLA, the University of Southern California, U.C. Riverside, AMDA, and A Noise Within. She is the Director of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. As an actress, she has performed at Antaeus in As You Like It, Tonight at 8:30, Cousin Bette, Peace In Our Time, Patience, Trial By Jury, The Liar. Additional acting credits include South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, The Matrix Theatre, The El Portal Theatre, Getty Center, Ford Theater, and in TV, film, and web series. She recently starred in the film Ready, which was selected by the Cannes Short Film Corner. Emily earned her M.F.A. from UCLA.
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Julia Davis earned her BA in Theatre Arts at SFSU and her MFA in Acting at USC.  At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, Top GirlsClassicsFest readings of Beyond the Horizon, Little Women and Picnic.  Other credits include Robin Hood at South Coast Rep, For the Birds at The Getty Villa, That Beautiful Laugh at Long Beach Playhouse and Everything you Touch at Theatre @ Boston Court (u/s).  She has also toured with a two-person clown show, The Day They Hung the Elephant (she plays the elephant).  Be sure to check her out as a terrible acting student in the new web series, Break A Hip.  Proud member of Four Clowns, the Troubadour Theatre Company, and AEA.
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John DeMita*

DUKE FREDERICK
At ANTAEUS: The Little Foxes, As You Like It, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Picnic, King Lear. Other Theater: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Intiman Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, American Conservatory Theatre. Directing (over 40 productions): Andak Theatre Company, Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center, El Camino Center for the Performing Arts. FILM/TV credits include: Resident Evil: Vendetta, JAG (4 seasons), series regular on Comedy Central’s The Clinic. Voice Acting: Cars 3, Ninjago, Star Trek: Discovery, Dumbo, among hundreds of others. John is currently a voice director and dubbing supervisor at Netflix, and a professor at USC School of Dramatic Arts.
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At ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Macbeth, Our American Hamlet (ClassicsFest 2013). Originally from Munich, Germany – Daniel is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He most recently appeared in the West Coast Premiere of Mac Rogers’ Viral at the Bootleg Theater (Dir. Darin Anthony) Other theatre credits include: Down in Front (World Premiere at Hollywood Fringe), Chris Keller in All My SonsThe Waiting Room (Dir. Art Manke) His film debut came this past Fall, in the David Ayer directed World War Two Drama Fury, starring Brad Pitt.
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Eve Gordon*

DUKE SENIOR
EVE GORDON (Aimee Semple McPherson): At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson’s, As You Like It, Picnic, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Peace in Our Time, The Autumn Garden. Other Theater: Open House (Skylight Theatre); The Ugly One (EST/LA); The End of the Day (Coast Playhouse); Candide (Goodman Theatre); Hang On To Me (Guthrie Theatre, Peter Sellars); Africanis Instructus (Festival d’Automne, Richard Foreman); Measure for Measure (Yale Repertory Theatre, John Madden); others. TV/FILM: Felicity; Honey We Shrunk Ourselves; Big Little Lies; Irresistible, Don’t Trust the B in Apt 23, others. Training: Brown University and Yale School of Drama.
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At ANTAEUS: The Hothouse, Peace in Our Time, The Crucible, As You Like It, Macbeth. Other Los Angeles Theater: The Engine Of Our Ruin, The Shoplifters (Victory Theatre), Baby Doll (The Fountain), The Magic Bullet Theory (Sacred Fools), Caribou Crossing, Memory of Water, The Great Great Grandson of Jedediah Kohler (Circle West), Heralds (Theater Tribe), The Andersonville Trial (All Saints in Pasadena), Briar Patch (Ventura Court Theatre), Breast Men (M.E.T. One Act Festival). Steve started in New York in 1980, where he appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. He has appeared in some TV shows, a few movies and several TV commercials. He is an expert in Southern Californian edible landscaping and pomology.
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At ANTAEUS: Henry IV Part I, Top Girls. ClassicsFest: Henry IV Part I, The London Cuckolds, Beyond the Horizon. Other work includes collaborations with Huntington Theatre Company, The Actors Studio, Manhattan Shakespeare Project, Columbia University, LAMDA and more. TV: Criminal Minds, General Hospital, Conan. When not at Antaeus, Sally might be found hiking, tweaking a recipe to make it healthier or (let’s be real) to incorporate what she currently has in her fridge, or gazing out the window with her cat, King Henry IX. Yes, that’s his name and he lives up to it. She’s also pretty into photography. Sally is a proud Texan, graduate of Boston University’s BFA program.
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Ian Littleworth*

AMIENS/DENNIS
At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, As You Like It, Macbeth. World Premieres: Kingdom City, A Lonely Boy’s Guide to Survival… (La Jolla Playhouse). Other credits include The Lion in Winter (Laguna Playhouse); Ah! Wilderness (A Noise Within); 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Palos Verdes Performing Arts); Carrie the Musical (La Mirada Theater); Hamlet the Rock Musical (El Portal Theater); Cabaret (Celebration Theater). Ian trained a the University of Southern California and the British American Drama Academy.
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At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson's, Cloud 9 (Stage Raw Nomination – Best Supporting Actress, 8 LADCC Awards), Top Girls (Ovation nomination – Best Supporting Actress, Backstage and Sage awards – Best Supporting Actress), As You Like It. Other Theater: Sense and Sensibility (South Coast Rep.), Prelude to a Kiss (Craig Lucas, SCR), Losing My Religion (Pasadena Playhouse), HamletWomen Beware Women (The Shakespeare Theatre), Three Sisters (Studio Theatre), I Love Lucy: a funny thing happened on the way to the sitcom (L.A. Theatre Works, World Premiere), Eurydice, The Beaux Stratagem, A Christmas Carol, Uncle Vanya, Tartuffe, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Long Day’s Journey into Night (A Noise Within), A Bright Room Called Day (Coeurage), The Visit, The Tempest (Oval), South of Delancey (Fremont Centre), Motherland (Inkwell). Selected FILM/TV: Bordertown (Netflix), Glee (Fox), The Dream (Flying Box – Lulu Wang, Bruce Dern), People at a Party (BBC), commercial campaigns for Barclay’s Bank and “We Card” (Dir. Tony Scott) MFA: The Academy for Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. BA: The George Washington University. abigailmarks.com
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At ANTAEUS: Mother Courage, Tonight at 8:30, King Lear, The Malcontent, Peace In Our time, Macbeth, and Oedipus. He is a founding A2 Rep of the A2 ensemble. Currently, he is involved in the two person tour called Marilyn Madness and Me about Marilyn Monroe and her limo driver. He has done Theatre all over the US at such reputable theatres as The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Cortland Repertory Theatre. Some TV credits include: Untold Stories from the E.R. (TLC) and Ella and Me (Animal Planet). He has appeared in many comedy sketches on www.meyerbros.net. He is currently studying with Lesly Kahn Studios. Rebecca Miller is a beautiful soul and without her, he is nothing. @AdamJohnMeyer, www.adamtheactor.com
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At ANTAEUS: Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Audrey in As You Like It. Other LA theaters: Most recently Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love and Mother in Little Black Shadows (South Coast Repertory). Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Boops (Boston Court Pasadena), Barbecue (The Geffen Playhouse), A Flea in Her EarThe Guardsman, Figaro (A Noise Within, LA Drama Critics Circle nomination), Conviction (The Rubicon Theatre, Ovation nomination), Forever House (Skylight Theatre Company), Steel Magnolias (Laguna Playhouse), Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing (The Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival). New York Theater: White’s Lies (Off-Broadway), Any Day Now (New York Innovative Theatre Award), Next Year in Jerusalem (NYIT nomination), Catch the Fish, The Eternal Husband. Chicago Theater: The Goodman and Chicago Shakespeare Rep. TV: Criminal Minds, Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, NCIS, Cold Case, Law & Order: SVU, Malibu Gothic, and a recurring role on The Last Ship. Elyse has also been seen in numerous independent films and national television commercials. BFA from Western Michigan University. Royal National Theatre of Great Britain.
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Spencer Rowe

AMIENS/DENNIS
Originally from Union N.J. Spencer has studied theatre in New York City at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Michael Howard Studios and The Barrow Group. Spencer has performed in several regional productions as well as National and European tours of West Side StoryA Chorus Line and Saturday Night Fever. Regional credits include To Kill A Mocking Bird at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Camila at The Walnut Street Theatre. Hardy in Mixtape at the Horton Grand Theatre and performed the role of Eddie in Lost In Yonkers at both The Old Globe and The Arizona Theatre. In Los Angles Spencer was most recently seen as Billis in MTW’s production of South Pacific. Film and commercial credits include After School Special starring Sarah Paulson and Wes Bentley, The Devil’s Advocate starring Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves, Two Hundred Thousand Dirty starring rap/pop artist Coolio.
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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).
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Janellen Steininger*

LE BEAU/SIRE OLIVER MARTEXT
Janellen is well-known to Los Angeles theater audiences. She most recently appeared in Native Gardens at Coachella Valley Rep. Other credits: Maria Vasilyevna Voynitskaya in Uncle Vanya at New American Theatre. And she appeared in the original cast of its precursor, The Wood Demon, at The Mark Taper Forum, where she also appeared in A Flaw in the Ointment at Taper Too. Janellen has also performed at The Old Globe. In L.A. at: L.A. Theatreworks, East/West Players, the Getty Villa, The Odyssey, The Fountain Theatre, Sacred Fools,The Evidence Room, 24th Street Theatre, and in several productions with The Antaeus Company of which she is a founding member. She has appeared on TV in shows such as Sleeper Cell, Roseanne, Strong Medicine and in independent films. She has also appeared at regional theaters from Ohio, to New York, to Key West. Janellen is also a jazz vocalist and as a voice over actor, she can be heard in numerous video games, animation, radio and T.V commercials, and dubs English into international television films and series. She helped develop and lead Antaeus’ Education Outreach program and has taught for Antaeus Academy.
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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.
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Todd Waring

LE BEAU/SIRE OLIVER MARTEXT
At ANTAEUS: Macbeth. Broadway: The Real Thing. Off-Broadway: Journey’s EndHenry IV; Part OneParadise Lost. Regional: DeathtrapMass AppealPeccadilloThe King Stag. The Pasadena Playhouse: Diva. Los Angeles: The Day RoomCock. Hollywood Fringe Fest: His solo show, Five Uneasy Pieces. Film: The Lady Killer. TV: Chasing LifeScandalDesperate HousewivesNip/TuckThe Good GuysOn the LotCold CaseSplash TooThe Return of the Shaggy DogSinatra, Judging AmyWest WingMonkNYPD BlueBoston LegalCastleOp CenterGrey’s Anatomy.
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KAREN MALINA WHITE : Antaeus: You Can’t Take It With You, The Liar, The Wedding Band, As You Like It and Eight Nights;  The Fountain Theatre: The Ballad of Emmett Till (LA Drama Critics Circle Award, LA Ovation Award), Citizen and Runaway Home;  LATW: The Mountaintop (Tour), Hedda Gabler, Little Foxes, Behind The Sheet and PipelineInternational City Theatre: The Old Settler  (NAACP nomination); Rogue Machine: the world premiere of In the Valley of the Shadow;  South Coast Rep: originated the role of Ernestine in the West Coast premiere of Crumbs From the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage  (NAACP Image Award);  Mixed Blood Theatre:  Permanent Collection, Salt Fish N’ Bakes, and Distracted; Television:  Netflix's DAHMER, Hallmark's Tis' The Season to be Merry, and Love For Real, BRUH, Mom, Cherish The Day, Lodge 49, Raven’s Home, Kidding, Shameless, Snowfall, Animal Kingdom, How to Get Away with Murder, Veep, Mike and Molly, The Mentalist, A Different World, Malcom n Eddie, The Cosby Show,  AND Her highly recognizable voice is featured on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder on Disney Plus as the character of Dijonay. 
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JD Cullum*

TOUCHSTONE
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.
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Ben Atkinson

CHARLES/WILLIAM
At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson's, As You Like It. Other theaters: Resolving Hedda (The Victory Theatre); Macbeth (Fearless Imp); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Troilus and Cressida (Trashcan Shakespeare); An Actor’s Carol (Hi-Desert Playhouse); and Noises Off (Live Arts). Ben is a proud member of the Antaeus Academy.
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At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country, As You Like It. Other Theater: Equus, Three Sisters, Twelfth Night, Accomplice, Pacific Overtures, Mother Tongue, Rashomon (East West Players); Bloodletting (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Playwrights Arena); Blood Wedding (Odyssey Theatre); Dogeaters (La Jolla Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre); Fish Head Soup (Berkeley Repertory Theatre/A Contemporary Theatre); The Wash (Studio Theatre, D.C.); Made in Bangkok (Mark Taper Forum); The Importance of Being Earnest (A Noise Within); Romeo and Juliet (Lodestone Theatre Ensemble); The White Death (Catch A Star Theatrical (CAST, Catch A Star Theatrical Players). TV/Film: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Assassination of Gianni Versace, Get Shorty, The West Wing, Beyond the Next Mountain, Melrose Place, Coach, Family Law and The Defenders.
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At ANTAEUS: As You Like It. Other Theaters: Imogen Says Nothing (Yale Repertory Theater), The Orphan of Zhao (American Conservatory Theater and La Jolla Playhouse), American Night (Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Kirk Douglas Theater), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Portland Center Stage). As company member of Oregon Shakespeare Festival for four years, he performed in 10 productions, including King Lear, Animal Crackers and The Imaginary Invalid. He has also worked as a clown in Cirque du Soleil’s Dralion and currently works with The Vivian Beckley Performing Arts Players. TV/Film: Brockmire, The Man in the High Castle, The Blacklist. Training: UCLA. daisuketsuji.com
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Brian Abraham*

DUKE FREDERICK
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.
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Stephen Rockwell*

DUKE FREDERICK
At ANTAEUS: As You Like It. Other theatres: 20 years with A Noise Within, credits include, Frederick Fellowes in Noises Off, Cleante in Tartuffe, Tom Wrench in Trelawny of the Welles; International City Theatre, Vanya in Vanya & Sonya & Masha & Spike; The Actors’ Co-op, Diabelli in 33 Variations; The Loft Ensemble, Gaev in The Cherry Orchard; Seven seasons with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. TV: Chasing Life, We Are Men, The Soul Man, Rodney, Miss Match, The Comeback, Malcolm in the Middle, E.R., 3rd Rock From the Sun.
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At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, The Curse of Oedipus. Recent: King of France, All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within). LA: Chutes&Ladders, Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum), Citizen: An American Lyric (Kirk Douglas Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Ahmanson Theater), Solly Two Kings, Gem of the Ocean (u/s, A Noise Within), Off the Rails (Native Voices), Prometheus Bound (Getty Villa), Citizen: An American Lyric, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Fountain Theatre), Mother Courage (Theatre @ Boston Court). Regional: Ghost/Claudius in Hamlet and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco); Henry V and The Man Who Came to Dinner (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Othello (California Shakespeare Festival); the Denver Theatre Center; Actors Theatre of Louisville; the Long Wharf Theatre; the Shakespeare Theatre (DC); and PlayMakers Rep. New York: Broadway (Electra). Film: Celebrity, The Farm. Recent TV: Call Me Kat, Modern Family, Rake. Awards: Ovation and LADCC for Acting Ensemble: The Ballad of Emmett Till.
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At ANTAEUS: As You Like It. Theater: Betty 3 in Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Boops (The Theatre @ Boston Court, Ovation Recommended), Gloria (U/S) in Species Native to California (IAMA Theatre), Ofelia in The San Patricios (PCPA), Veronica in The Motherfucker with the Hat (Washington Ensemble Theatre). MFA: University of Washington; Maggie Flanigan Meisner Conservatory (NY). anna-lamadrid.com
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AT ANTAEUS: As You Like It, Love & Information, The Tempest; Other credits: Alabaster (The Fountain Theatre), Life Sucks (Interact Theater Company), Worst Laid Plans (Upright Citizens Brigade, co-creator), My Break-Up Playlist (Rogue Machine Theatre, writer/performer), Bunny Bunny (The Garry Marshall Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (Ensemble Theatre Company), and Neil LaBute’s Filthy Talk for Troubled Times (UK premiere). Film and TV credits include: Recurring role in Physical (Apple TV, Seasons 1, 2, and 3), Good Trouble (Freeform), Grace and Frankie (Netflix), American Princess (Lifetime), and No Activity (Comedy Central). Other credits include: Chad (TBS), Happy Endings (ABC), American Housewife (ABC), Magnum P.I. (CBS), Homecoming (Netflix), Here Comes the Bride (Lifetime), NCIS: LA (CBS), Criminal Minds (CBS), and Comedy Bang! Bang! (IFC). Training: BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; The Meisner Studio; Experimental Theatre Wing; and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

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Luis Kelly-Duarte

CHARLES/WILLIAM
At ANTAEUS : As You Like It. Theater credits include: A Streetcar Named Desire (Boston Court) Handball (Urban Theatre Movement & NYC Summer Stage), Romeo and Juliet (African American Shakespeare Company). Recent TV/Film: ArchenemyShamelessAnimal Kingdom, Ripper. Luis is a member of Urban Theatre Movement and Ensemble Studio Theatre and is also a member of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. Follow @authenticLKD
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Mitchell Edmonds is a Resident Artist for 25 years with A Noise Within, where he has appeared in over 70 productions. He’s also appeared at South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe, Alaska Repertory Theater, A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Mark Taper Forum and ANTAEUS in Henry IV, Part One and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. For TV and Film go to imdb.me/MitchellEdmonds
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At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. For the past 10 years, Tim has performed the classics at Theatricum Botanicum. Recent productions there: The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing and August: Osage County. He was also a long time company member at Shakespeare Santa Monica. Some favorites there: Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors. With the New American Theatre: Julius Caesar, Tempest Redux, I Never Sang for My Father. Some TV and Film credits: Mad Men, Scandal, Lost, Alias, ER, Monk, Pretty Little Liars, Freedom Writers and Space Cowboys.
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Andy Stokan*

JAQUEZ DE BOYS/ FIRST LORD
At ANTAEUS: As You Like It. Other Theaters: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Royal Family (Theatricum Botanicum) The Comedy of Errors, The Chairs (A Noise Within) Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night (Coeurage Theatre Co.) Proposals (Norris Theater). Regional: McCarter Theatre, Theater at Monmouth, New England Shakespeare Festival. TV: Masters of Sex. www.andystokan.com
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Sedale Threatt, Jr.

JAQUEZ DE BOYS/ FIRST LORD
After completing his degree at Lehigh University (BS ‘12), Sedale attended the University of Southern California (MFA ‘15). He participated in the 2015 Ojai Playwrights Conference and attended the 2014 Guthrie Experience at the Guthrie Theater. Theater: Joe in The Time of Your Life, Lysimachus/Thaliart in Pericles, Trigorin in The Seagull (USC); Usher/Polynices in The Gospel at Colonus (Ebony Repertory Theatre); Man/Baby in Little Children Dream of God (Road Theatre). Film/TV: It’s Time, Roots, Actors Anonymous, Roman Israel, Esq.
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At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, Picnic, ClassicsFest readings of: Holiday, Moby Dick. Other Theater: If All The Sky Were Paper (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Kennedy Center, Lobero Theatre) Film: Long Lost, All The Grey, Basic Training. He is also a member of the Echo Theater Company. Training: BFA & BA, Chapman University
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At ANTAEUS: As You Like It. Other Theaters: Pericles (Guthrie Theater, Folger Theatre and Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Tempest, All the Way and As You Like It (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Glass Menagerie, Eurydice and Trouble in Mind (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), Richard II (Pearl Theatre), Troilus and Cressida and The Bomb-itty of Errors (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival). Romeo and Juliet and Tartuffe (American Players Theatre). Additional Theaters: Goodman Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Fulton Theatre, Renaissance Theatreworks, Illinois and Nebraska Shakespeare Festivals. Film: Who’s Afraid of the Big Black Wolf. Training: Penn State and Frostburg State.
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Production Team

William Shakespeare

Playwright
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays (including Hamlet, MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Merchant of VeniceOthello, Much ado About Nothing, Richard III, King Lear, and numerous other seminal works), 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
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