Electra, Revisited: A Play with Music

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.

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

At ANTAEUS (Directing): Cymbeline, The Tempest, The Hothouse; (Acting): The Zip Code Plays, Three Days in the Country, Hedda Gabler, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, The Liar, Patience, The Wood Demon. Other directing credits: Ensemble Theatre Company, A Noise Within, The Jewel Theatre, North Coast Repertory, Playwright’s Arena, PICT (Pittsburgh). Other acting credits: South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, The Ensemble Theatre Company, The Harold Clurman Theatre, PICT, Kinetic Theatre Company, ACT (Seattle), Shakespeare Festival LA, The Old Globe, The Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The American Conservatory Theatre. TV: Recurring roles on the new Frasier and Desperate Housewives, and guest stars on NCIS and many others. M.F.A., The American Conservatory Theatre. Recipient of the 2011 Lunt Fontanne Fellowship.

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.

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.

Ann Noble is a Chicago Native with over twenty-five years of professional experience in the theatre as an actor, playwright, director and educator.  In addition to teaching at Antaeus, she currently teaches at Berg Studios (Technique I & II) as well as at the Hyperion Arts Center/Studio A Dance (Scene Study).  As a director, her recent credits include Smoke with LifeChild Productions and Moonshine Mamas with Two Heads Are Better Productions.  With Antaeus, she recently directed two of the Classic Sunday Readings of Shaw’s St. Joan and Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, which she is slated to co-direct in its full production this winter with Armin Shimerman.  As an actor, her credits with Antaeus are Hedda Gabler, The Crucible, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time, The Liar and The Malcontent.  Her other theatre acting credits include: BLISS, or Emily Post is Dead  with Moving Arts; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, and Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story of Barack Obama’s Mother all with LA’s LGBT Center; Other Desert Cities with ICT of Long Beach; American Dead with Rogue Machine; Orange Flower Water with the Victory; Belfry with Malibu Playhouse; An Ideal Husband with Sierra Madre Playhouse; The Fall To Earth, Bedroom Farce and London’s Scars with the Odyssey; Betrayal with ETC of Santa Barbara; Sidhe, And Neither Have I Wings To Fly, The Friendly Hour, Big Death & Little Death, Shove and Bunbury all with the Road; and over six productions with South Coast Rep.  She also teaches acting and writing to incarcerated/at risk youth at several schools/institutions around LA including Homeboy Industries, and also works as a theatre director/instructor for youth at LA’s LGBT Center and LA’s Museum of the Holocaust.  She is the current Casting Associate for Antaeus, and, also, will be directing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar for Warriors For Peace this fall.

Liza’s recent stage work includes Lady Macbeth at Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Yolanda/Jody in the New York and Los Angeles Premieres of Pulp Shakespeare (Cherry Lane, SoHo Playhouse, and Theatre Asylum), Lisa in Collected Stories at The Group Rep, Janetta in the World Premiere of The Boomerang Effect at the Odyssey, Lusia in A Shayna Maidel at ICT, and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at Kentucky Shakespeare. She has been seen on television in recurring roles on The Following and Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures, as well as Grey’s Anatomy, Lie to Me, Monk, Big Love, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and Alias. Her film work includes Night Eyes, Salvation Road, and Paul Verhoeven’s Zwartboek (Black Book), which was filmed in her native country, The Netherlands. She is the co-star/producer of the Bard tribute series, This Week in Shakespeare.

At ANTAEUS: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Seagull, Autumn Garden, numerous readings and workshops. Best known for his eight seasons playing the father, Red Forman, on That ’70s Show.  Other TV credits include series regular roles in both season of Resurrection and Worst Week. Recurring Roles on 24 and Medium, as well as Guest Starring onHouse and numerous other shows.  Films include RoboCop, Dead Poets Society, To Die For, Citizen Ruth, Time To Kill, Deep Impact, Girl Interrupted, Cedar Rapids and appears in the recently released Hitchcock. Theater credits include South Coast Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage and Film, Los Angeles Actors Theatre, California Actors Theatre, and California Shakespeare Festival.

At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theaters: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Jane Bingley) at Ensemble Theatre Company, The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll (Lorina) at Theatre at Boston Court, By the Bog of Cats (Caroline) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Cecily) at Theatre Banshee, the Chicago Company of Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding (Sister Terry), and several seasons with the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival. TV/Film: Switched at Birth, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life, Shameless, Scorpion, Transparent, S.W.A.T., commercials for Wendy’s, Merck, etc. Training: CWRU. Representation: Smith & Hervey/Grimes Talent Agency. Love: JB.

Peter Mendoza was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He studied theater, stage combat, and dance at East Los Angeles College. At ANTAEUS: Belyaev in Three Days In The Country. Other Theater: Oscar in Sweat (Mark Taper Forum), Elliot in Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Oedipus in Oedipus El Rey (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Digital Stage), Henry Reyna in Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum, U/S); Hason in Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (The Rep. Theatre of St. Louis); Rafael in La Piedra Oscura; Don Carlos in Los Empeños de una Casa, Paco in Salon Mexico, Don Juan Tenorio in El Burlador de Sevilla (Bilingual Foundation of the Arts). TV: Perry Mason (HBO), From Scratch (Netflix), Shooter (USA), NCIS (CBS), Snowfall (FX), Casual (HULU), On My Block (Netflix). Film: Dead Bullet, Nathan's Kingdom, Parasites, Tecato, Hello to Never, Ana Maria in Novella Land.