Celebrate National Coming Out Day with Antaeus and join us for this FREE, virtual Zip Code Plays event on October 7! We will begin with a Zoom listening session of 90069: West Hollywood – “Brunch, Interrupted”, followed by a live panel discussion with Playwright Sean Abley, Cast Members Parnell Damone Marcano and Anne Gee Byrd, and Antaeus Artistic Director and Cast Member Bill Brochtrup.
Tune into this special event featuring the complete cast to explore the creative process behind the play and to celebrate LGBTQ+ artists and to honor the upcoming important day of awareness in our community!
This Salon is sponsored by Antaeus Board Member Arlene Vidor and co-hosted by Glendale community members Nick Macierz and Gary Freeman.
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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*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
