Everybody

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: 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.

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: The Crucible, Classicsfest. Other Theatre: Hole in the Sky (Circle X); Completeness (VS Theatre); Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, The Velveteen Rabbit (South Coast Repertory); Two Gentlemen of Verona (PA Shakespeare); Romeo and Juliet (Lantern Theatre); The Edge of Our Bodies (Theatre Exile); Thrones! The Musical (Baby Wants Candy at Edinburgh Fringe Festival). TV/Film: Scandal, V/H/S, Serious Music, The UCB Show, Big Time Rush, Ghost Story Club, College Humor. The Groundlings Training Program and Upright Citizens Brigade Maude Alum. Training: B.A., Temple University; M.F.A., University of California, Irvine. Nicole has written for: Comedy Central, UCB, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. www.nicoleerb.com

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: The Seagull, ClassicsFest in 2011 and other workshops, Oedipus The King, The Rover, Camino Real (Antaeus A2). West Coast Premiere of Our Lady Of 121st Street (The Matrix), understudy for Take Me Out (The Geffen), Bambino (Carlsbad Playhouse). Other shows Streetcar Name Desired, Golden Boy, Six Tarantulas On An Angel Foodcake. Film/Tv: CSI Cyber, Dallas, The Mentalist, Gang Related, CSI, Burn Notice, Arrested Development, CSI Miami, Outlaw, Meet the Browns, Days of our Lives And Many Others. Oliver Stone’s Savages, The Line, The Davinci Treasure. Special thanks to Richard Seyd, Jeanie Hackett and Jack Stehlin for their support and guidance.

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country, As You Like It. Other Theater: Equus, Three Sisters, Twelfth Night, Accomplice, Pacific Overtures, Mother Tongue, Rashomon (East West Players); Bloodletting (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Playwrights Arena); Blood Wedding (Odyssey Theatre); Dogeaters (La Jolla Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre); Fish Head Soup (Berkeley Repertory Theatre/A Contemporary Theatre); The Wash (Studio Theatre, D.C.); Made in Bangkok (Mark Taper Forum); The Importance of Being Earnest (A Noise Within); Romeo and Juliet (Lodestone Theatre Ensemble); The White Death (Catch A Star Theatrical (CAST, Catch A Star Theatrical Players). TV/Film: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Assassination of Gianni Versace, Get Shorty, The West Wing, Beyond the Next Mountain, Melrose Place, Coach, Family Law and The Defenders.

GERARD JOSEPH  is a multi-hyphenate artist currently based out of LA.  He received his MFA from UCSD, has trained with Maggie Flanigan in NYC, and is a company member at Antaeus Theater Company and The Road Theater in LA. Gerard sends special love and thanks to his parents for their tremendous love and support. IG @whatnextg. Reps welcome.   Los Angeles Theater: FIRST DEEP BREATH - Geffen Playhouse; EVERYBODY - Antaeus Theater Company; 90027: GRIFFITH PARK - THE FIRE IN-BETWEEN - Antaeus Theater Company; KAIROS - Geffen Writers Room; PRESENT BLACK FATHERS - Road Theater Company; A POST-RACIAL USA - HIghways Theater; A TASTE OF HONEY - Odyssey Theater.   New York Theater: AMERICAN LULLABY - Manhattan Theater Club; TERROR SUPERHIGHWAY - Cherry Lane Theater; VII DEADLY SINS - Downtown Theater Festival.     Regional Theater: HONKY - San Diego Rep; HIS GIRL FRIDAY - La Jolla Playhouse; BLUEPRINTS TO FREEDOM - La Jolla Playhouse; DUTCHMAN - Ubuntu Theater Co; RUN MOURNER, RUN - Flashpoint Theater Company; A MATTER OF SECONDS - Walnut Street Theater; TAKE ME OUT - Plays and Players.   Director: ROBBIN, FROM THE HOOD - Road Theater Company; TOPDOG/UNDERDOG - Black Creators Collective; YOU - an immersive experience; SECRET SOCIETY - Alliance Theater.

Los Angeles: Everybody, Zip Code Plays - 91505: Burbank "True Sound" (Antaeus Theater Company); August Wilson's "Seven Guitars'' (A Noise Within);  Beloved, At The Table (Stage Raw- Best Ensemble and Best Actress Nomination), Friends with Guns, Through the Eye of a Needle (The Road Theater); The Mountaintop (Garry Marshall Theater). Selected NY Credits: The Tragedy at Hood 14542: Hooksickle (International Fringe Festival), Ida B Wells: A Play in Four Parts (Afrikan Woman’s Repertory), Taming of The Shrew (Pulse Theater Ensemble), Timon in Athens (George Bernard Shaw Theater – UK). TV/Film: Black-ish, Jane the Virgin, Pearson, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, and Jimmy Kimmel Live! Training: B.A. New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; Classical Acting – Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London; Member: AEA, SAG-AFTRA. www.cherishmonqiueduke.net

Lisa has directed with Playpenn, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Circle X Theatre Co., Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Blank Theatre, California Repertory Company, We the People at Sacred Fools, The Motor Company, Inkwell and Theatre of NOTE. Punkplay, which Lisa co-directed with Matt Bretz, was listed as a Production of the Year and a runner-up for Best Direction by TicketholdersLA. She co-directed Welcome to the Blumhouse Live, an interactive film event for Blumhouse/Amazon Prime, which was recently nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Interactive Program. lisasanayedring.com

Jennifer Chang is a director, actor, and educator.  Select Directing credits include: Where the Mountain Meets the Moonby Min Kahng (South Coast Rep), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo by Jiehae Park (Fountain Theatre), Vietgone by Qui Nguyen (LADCC Award). Select new play development:  Ashland New Plays Festival, Center Theatre Group, Boston Court,  Geffen Playhouse, Chance Theatre, Echo Theatre Company, Circle X Theatre Company, Chalk Rep, and East West Players. Other: 2020 APAFT Award, Alumnus Directors Lab West, Drama League NY Fellowship. Head of Undergraduate Acting at UCSD.  Member: SDC, SAG-AFTRA, AEA. BFA: NYU, MFA: UCSD.  More info: changinator.com

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who The New York Times calls “one of this country’s most original and illuminating writers,” is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose other credits include Girls (Yale Rep), War (world premiere, Yale Rep; LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre; Echo Theater Company in L.A.; Pulitzer Prize finalist), Appropriate (Signature Theatre; Mark Taper Forum; OBIE Award), An Octoroon (Soho Rep.; Fountain Theatre in L.A.; OBIE Award), and Neighbors (The Public Theater; Matrix Theatre Company in L.A.). A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his most recent honors include the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright from the London Evening Standard, a London Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwriting, a MacArthur Fellowship (commonly but unofficially known as the “Genius Grant”), the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Jacobs-Jenkins has taught at NYU, Juilliard, Hunter College, and the University of Texas-Austin, and he recently joined the faculty at Yale University.