Circle Forward

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 Ear, The 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.

At ANTAEUS: Debut. TV/Film credits include: House M. D., The Practice, The Drew Carey Show, Side Order of Life, George Lopez. Upcoming Films: A Patient Man and Dominique’s Baby. Other Theater credits include: Crane Mississippi, Wayside (The Elephant), The Fantasticks (The Morgan-Wixson), The Comedy of Errors (Pacific Shakespeare Co.), Little Mary Sunshine (Richard Basehart Theatre). After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, Judy took her time looking for her theatrical home here in Los Angeles and found ANTAEUS.

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

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