Chekhov X 4

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: Savages, Filumena, The Night of the Iguana (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice (California Shakespeare Theater), All’s Well That Ends Well (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Film: Blow, Mask of Zorro, Annabelle, Meddler, 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.

At ANTAEUS: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Diana of Dobson's, The Hothouse, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Mother Courage and her Children, Trial By Jury, Patience, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Wood Demon. A founding member and early co-artistic director. Other Stages: Hillary and Bill (Victory Gardens Theater), The Imaginary Invalid, Glengarry Glen Ross, The First Picture Show (American Conservatory Theater), 36 Views (Laguna Playhouse), Archy and Mehitabel: A Back Alley Opera (The Yard, Chilmark), Temptation, The Wood Demon (Mark Taper Forum), Sex Parasite, Largo Desolato (Taper, Too), The History Boys (Ahmanson Theatre), Durango (East West Players), A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center).

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.

AT ANTAEUS: King Lear, Chekhov x4 and others. Regional: Peer Gynt (La Jolla Playhouse); The Elephant Man (Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company); Uncanny Valley, The Exit Interview (San Diego REP); Louis and Keely Live at the Sahara (The Geffen Playhouse directed by Taylor Hackford); Miss Nelson’s Missing (Main Street Theater Company); The Three Musketeers (Sierra Repertory Theater); Hamlet (The Curtis Theater); Godspell (Segerstrom Center for the Arts); The Nerd,  A Wonderful Life (Laguna Playhouse). Other Los Angeles Credits: A Splintered Soul, The Foreigner (The Odyssey Theater Ensemble); The Misanthrope (ANDAK theater company), Lost Electra (International City Theater). Film: The Power of One (dir. John G. Avildsen), American Socialist: Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs. TV: Unscripted (dir. George Clooney). Video Games: The voice of Double D in Just Survive (SONY). Attended the Boston Conservatory and is a graduate of the The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

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.

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: Chekhov X4, The Ugly Duckling, Mercadet, Of Mice and Men, Mysteries and Mayhem. Other Theatres: The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Mark Taper Forum), Bullshot Crummond (The Coronet Theatre), Houseguest & Familiar Faces, Mixed Feelings (Los Angeles Actor’s Theatre), Throckmorton, TX (LA Performance Unit). Originally from Los Gatos, CA, Martin joined California Actor’s Theatre in 1975. While there, he performed in numerous productions alongside Sandy McCallum and David Ogden Stiers, as well as future Antaeans Dakin Matthews (founding Artistic Director), and Kurtwood Smith (fellow founding member). Since moving to Los Angeles in 1979, he has had recurring roles on Miami Vice and Hillstreet Blues, as well as guest spots on Cheers, M*A*S*H, Mork and Mindy, Happy Days, L.A. Law, The Practice, and The X-Files. He has also worked in film, most notably as the ill-fated lawyer in Jurassic Park, as well as Heat, Get Shorty, The Tailor of Panama, Gods and Monsters, Oscar, High Spirits, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles. He is a founding member of Antaeus, and a proud member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA.

Harry Groener is a founding member At ANTAEUS: Pera Palas, Mother Courage, The Bear in Chekhov x Four, and the title role in King Lear (Drama Circle Award), Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Ovation, Drama Critics Circle and Stage Raw Awards), Three Days In The Country and Uncle Vanya. His multiple Broadway and Off Broadway credits include Crazy For You (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations), Cats (Tony Nomination), Oh Brother!, Oklahoma! (Tony Nomination and received Theater World Award), Harrigan and the Hart, Is there Life After High school, Sleight of Hand, Sunday in the Park with George, Imaginary Friends, and Spamalot. Other Nominations and Awards: Ovation Award Equivocation, Geffen Playhouse, Jefferson Award (The Madness of King George, Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Jefferson Award Nominations: Cyrano De Bergerac, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, William Tecumseh Sherman, The March, Steppenwolf Theater. Other recent credits include: Lincoln and LBJ in Appomattox, The Guthrie Theater; The Train Driver, Long Wharf Theater. Film and Television partial: About Schmidt, Patch Adams, and Road to Perdition, Cure For Wellness, Dear John, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI, How I Met Your Mother, Medium, Bones, Las Vegas, Breaking Bad, The West Wing and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager, and Enterprise.

AT ANTAEUS: Eight Nights, Uncle Vanya, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Chekhov X 4. Broadway: Brooklyn Boy (MTC/SCR). Regional: The Great Leap (ACT-SF); Underneath the Lintel (Geffen Playhouse); After the Revolution (Center Stage Baltimore) Above the Fold (Pasadena Playhouse); Parfumerie(The Wallis: Inaugural Production); Coney Island Christmas(Geffen Playhouse); Future Thinking, Circle Mirror Transformation, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Wild Oats, (South Coast Rep); and others including productions for CTG, East/West Players, LATheatreCenter, Grove Shakespeare, El Teatro Campesino, The Odyssey Theatre, Stages Theatre Center (where he served as Managing Artistic Director 2000-2003), and Theatre@Boston Court. He has performed in dozens of plays recorded for LATheatreWorks. 
Arye has taught at the USC School of Dramatic Arts, and was extremely fortunate to have studied acting with Lee Shallat-Chemel, Roy London, Jose Quintero, and James Wilson.
 Arye’s film/TV credits can be found here:
imdb.me/aryegross. AryeGross.com

At ANTAEUS: Picnic. Other Theaters: Dry Land (The Kirk Douglas & The Echo Theater Company), The Wolves (The Echo Theater Company), Apocalypse Play (Moving Arts), Nice Things (Rogue Machine), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Center LA), Four Clowns Presents Hamlet, That Beautiful Laugh, Noah & Jonah (Four Clowns). TV/Film: House of Lies, Locating Silver Lake, Here I Am, Can You Take My Picture, Landings. Training: BFA, USC. @condogg.

Michael has been working with Antaeus since 2001 in A Tale of Charles Dickens, Chekhov x 4, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Henry IV. Other Theatre: Bent, What the Butler Saw, School of Night, The Goat (Mark Taper Forum), Dracula (LA Theatre Works), Tickled Pink (Laguna Playhouse) The American Plan, Romeo and Juliet, Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Othello (Old Globe), Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Kingsmen), The Glass Menagerie (Syracuse Stage), Leading Ladies (Barnstormers Theatre), Spite for Spite, Don Juan (Andak Stage Company) Off-Broadway: Othello, Richard III Film: Brown Paper Bag, Weekend at Jesus’, Hells Heart, Connected, Passing Normal, Chase The Slut, Benevolence. MFA Old Globe. For Heather, thanks for everything.

At ANTAEUS: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Picnic; Pera Palas, Mercadet, Chekhov X 4, The Women, Of Thee I Sing, Dickens and Crime, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Freddy’s Last Concert (Playwright’s Festival), Regular Joes (LAB RESULTS), multiple ClassicsFests. Other theater credits include Post Office (Mark Taper Forum workshop); The Refugee Hotel (Mark Taper Forum New Works Festival); The Indolent Boys (Wells Fargo Radio Theater); Mortified!; Show & Tell (UCB); Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Theater BAM). Film/TV: Alpha; 100 Girls; Star Trek: First Contact; All My Children; The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, 7^th Heaven, Charmed. VO: Sofia the First, Flash Forward. Krinsky is a sought after broadcast host with a focus on entertainment and science/technology. She currently hosts Tomorrow’s World Today on Discovery Networks and Science Channel and works for Marvel Live!, anchoring their red carpet film premieres and special events. She has covered the Oscars and the Emmys, and shot over 30 episodes of the weekly tech show The Spotlight for Tom’s Guide. She was recognized by the Webby Awards for writing/hosting That Indie Film Show and won an Emmy Award for her writing on Emma Approved, a multi-platform adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. tamarakrinsky.com.

(Co-Founder, first Artistic Director): The Wood Demon, Mysteries and Mayhem, Of Mice and Men, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Mercadet, The Liar, The Proof of the Promise, Swansong, King Lear. Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Iceman Cometh, Waitress: The Musical,The Audience, Rocky, The Best Man, A Man for All Seasons, Henry IV. Off-Broadway: Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare in the Park); The Winter’s Tale, The Cherry Orchard (Bridge Project); The School for Scandal, The Hostage (Acting Company). Regional: over 200 productions for (among others) Center Theatre Group, Old Globe, South Coast Rep, California Actors Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Dallas Theatre Center, and various Shakespeare Festivals. Film: over 25 films, including Lincoln, True Grit, Zero Charisma. TV: over 250 episodes, recurring on Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, King of Queens. Also an Emeritus Professor of English, former Juilliard Instructor, Shakespeare scholar, and award-winning playwright, translator, and dramaturge.

Lawrence Pressman has appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen’s Play It Again, Sam; both in London and on Broadway in Man in the Glass Booth directed by Harold Pinter; and in Show People at New York’s Second Stage. His regional credits include No Man’s Land at the Odyssey Theatre; Of Equal Measure at CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre; the premiere of The Paris Letter; Wood Demon, Richard III, A Month in the Country, and a leading role in the final workshop of Perestroika at the Mark Taper Forum; Chekhov X 4 and Tonight at 8:30 at Antaeus; and performances at La Jolla Playhouse and the Ahmanson Theatre. Other favorite credits include Betrayal, The Birthday Party (Matrix), Long Day’s Journey into Night, and King Lear. Lawrence’s nominations and awards include Ovation, Drama-Logue, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Garland, Maddy, LA Weekly, GLAAD, and Broadway’s Theatre World Award. He has more than 150 television and film credits, including Transparent, Doogie Howser, M.D.; and Hart of Dixie.

Phil Proctor is a 15-year member of Antaeus and a 50-year member of the thrice-Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre, recognized as one of the “Thirty Greatest Acts of All Time” with a recording in the Library of Congress. He’s appeared on-and-off Broadway, on street corners in the USSR with the Yale Russian Chorus, in many local and regional theatres, on radio, and in scores of films, video games and TV shows. He’s won Theatre World, LA Weekly, LA Free Press and Drama Critics’ awards, and his voice credits include Toy Story, Spirited Away, Monsters, Inc., Seahorse Bob in Finding Nemo, the Drunken French Monkey in Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Vidic in Assassin’s Creed, and Howard DeVille in the Emmy-winning Rugrats, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is currently featured in the independent films Window of Opportunity, Charity and The Love Addict and tours in a one-man reading of Don Quixote with the L.A. Guitar Quartet.