Eight Nights

Antaeus Black Box

Written by: Jennifer Maisel

Directed by: Emily Chase

The lives that inhabit an apartment from 1949 to 2016. A young refugee woman who is finally free to start anew in the United States tries to vanquish the past that haunts her, alongside her father, husband, friends, daughter and granddaughter.

Cast

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
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At ANTAEUS: The Zip Code Plays Season 3, Hedda Gabler, The Curse of Oedipus; staged readings of Ghost Bicycle, Metamorphoses, Once in A Lifetime, The Lark, The Subject, and many more. California highlights include: South Coast Repertory (Our Town, Mr. Wolf, & many Pacific Playwright Festivals and NewSCRipts), Geffen Playhouse (Beheading Columbus, The Writers’ Room) The Old Globe (Compleat Female Stage Beauty), Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara (Crime and Punishment), San Jose Repertory (Sonia Flew), North Coast Repertory (String of Pearls), and work at Laguna Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, and Pasadena Playhouse. Elsewhere: Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Merry Wives of Windsor), Commonwealth Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest), La MaMa, New York Theatre Workshop in collaboration with Mabou Mines, American Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Ashland New Plays Festival, and more. In addition to commercial and TV work, nominated Best Actress for the short, Bonito Secrets; M.F.A. Harvard, B.A. Vassar. kwanamartinez.com

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Lynn Milgrim*

OLDER REBECCA/ANNA
At ANTAEUS: Tonight at 8:30, Malcontent, Wedding Band, Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler. Lynn has appeared on Broadway in Otherwise Engaged with Tom Courtenay, directed by Harold Pinter; Bedroom Farce with John Lithgow directed by Peter Hall; Charley’s Aunt and the international tour of Brighton Beach Memoirs. Off-Broadway plays include appearances at Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, WPA and NY Shakespeare Festival. Her extensive regional theatre credits include leading roles at South Coast Repertory, (most recently Trip to Bountiful, Rest, Doll’s House, Part 2), Playhouse-in-the Park (Cincinnati), Charles Playhouse (Boston), Hartford Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven), Arena Stage (D.C.). Recent television appearances include Chicago Med and The Fosters.
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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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JON CHAFFIN (Mr. Lonnie) is excited to be returning to Antaeus Theatre, where he previously lead the cast of the critically-acclaimed production, Native Son. Theatre: Two Trains Running (Matrix Theatre), American Saga: Gunshot Medley – Part 1 (Rogue Machine), Native Son (Antaeus Theatre), King Hedley II (Matrix Theatre), The Dumb Waiter (PushPush Theater). Television/film: Perry Mason, BMF, DIARRA From Detroit, Quantum Leap, S.W.A.T., Lucifer, Snowfall, Hawaii Five-O, Blindspotting, If Not Now, When?, 96 Minutes. Jon received his BA from Fort Valley State University. He is also a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
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Production Team

Julie Lanctot

STAGE DIRECTIONS
*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