King Lear
Written by: William Shakespeare
ADVISORY
Directed by: Bart DeLorenzo
ADVISORY
Recommended for Ages 16+
An ageing monarch, a kingdom broken and a family lost to love. The blindness of sanity and the clear-eyed vision of fools and lunatics… fathers, sons and daughters, drenched in the storm of life.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Scenic Design: Tom Buderwitz
Lighting Design: Lap Chi Chu
Costume Deign: A. Jeffrey Schoenberg
Sound Design: John Zalewski
Producer: Young Ji
Production Stage Manager: Deirdre Murphy
Cast
Ramón de Ocampo*
EDGAR
At ANTAEUS: Hamlet (Hamlet), Measure for Measure (Angelo/Claudio), Henry IV, Part One (Hal), The Curse of Oedipus (Oedipus), Macbeth ( Banquo), The Malcontent (Mendoza), King Lear (Edgar), host of The Zip Code Plays Podcast ; Other Theater: Kirk Douglas, Playwrights Arena, NY Public, Kennedy Center, Signature, NJSF, Ojai, O’neil, Yale, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Ma-Yi among others. TV: Recurring roles on: 12 Monkeys, The West Wing, Dynasty, MacGyver, Notorious, Counterpart, Major Crimes, Medium, Killer Instinct, Sons of Anarchy. Recent Guest Star: 911, Magnum PI, Big Shot. BFA: Carnegie Mellon. Narrator of over 300 audiobooks, including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series. AWARDS: OBIE Award; 16 Earphones awards, Audie award, AudioFile “Golden Voice”- a lifetime achievement in the craft. This is for Lauren, my hero. And Wilder, my muse. IG/TWTR/FB @ramondeocampo
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Daniel Bess*
EDMUND
Theater: Off Broadway: True History (Vineyard Theater), Michael Mayer, Dir; Hologram Theory (Blue Light Theater); Modern Apocalypse (NYS&F), Michael Grief, Dir. Los Angeles productions: Misalliance (SCR), Hedda Gabler (PRT), Margo Veil, Ivanov, Passion Play (Evidence Room), We Are Proud to Present (The Matrix), multiple productions with Antaeus Theatre Company including: Cousin Bette, King Lear, Pera Palas (Boston Court), Peace in Our Time, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and many more. Television credits: Firefly, Scandal, SVU, Medium, Grays Anatomy, CSI, The Crazy Ones, Last Resort and many more including season one of 24. Film: Munich, Constellation, Not Another Teen Movie. Daniel is also a signed singer/songwriter with multiple TV/film placements. Available on iTunes. Much love and aloha to family, friends, dog and Linda.
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John DeMita*
ALBANY
At ANTAEUS: The Little Foxes, As You Like It, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Picnic, King Lear. Other Theater: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Intiman Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, American Conservatory Theatre. Directing (over 40 productions): Andak Theatre Company, Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center, El Camino Center for the Performing Arts. FILM/TV credits include: Resident Evil: Vendetta, JAG (4 seasons), series regular on Comedy Central’s The Clinic. Voice Acting: Cars 3, Ninjago, Star Trek: Discovery, Dumbo, among hundreds of others. John is currently a voice director and dubbing supervisor at Netflix, and a professor at USC School of Dramatic Arts.
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Seamus Dever*
EDMUND
At Antaeus: The Cripple of Inishmaan, King Lear, Pera Palas. Other Theatres: 12 Angry Men (Laguna Playhouse), iWitness (Mark Taper Forum), Mother Courage (Theatre @ Boston Court), Clutter (The Colony Theatre), Boise USA (Matrix Theatre), The Men from the Boys (Fountain Theatre), A Clockwork Orange (Greenway Court Theatre) TV/Film: DC’s Titans, Castle, The Rookie, Take Two, MacGyver, Far Cry 5, Legion, Mad Men, Army Wives, General Hospital, Cold Case, Hollywoodland, Training: BA, Northern Arizona University; MFA, Carnegie-Mellon University and The Moscow Art Theatre. Member: AEA, The Actors Studio.
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Francia DiMase
REGAN
At ANTAEUS: Phaedra, Legal Briefs, and several ClassicsFests, among others. Other regional credits include The Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Arizona Theater Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, La Mirada Civic Theater, The Magic Theater, S.F., A Noise Within, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival and the PCPA/Solvang Theaterfest. Her credits also include many film and television roles.
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Jeff Gardner*
FRANCE/1ST SERVANT
At ANTAEUS: King Lear, Macbeth, The Liar, ClassicsFest 2010-11; The Tempest (A Noise Within); Hamlet (The Globe Playhouse); Little Women (Kennedy Center, National Tour); Skylight (The Studio Theatre); Becket (Olney Theatre Center; Henry V with Harry Hamlin , Henry VI (parts I-III) and Measure for Measure with Kelly McGillis (The Shakespeare Theatre); The Seagull with Gwyneth Paltrow and Christopher Walken, Our Town with Calista Flockhart and James Whitmore (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: J. Edgar, Lifeform, Fall Time, The Hollywood Sign, and Species 2. He has also toured Fringe Festivals with his award winning one-man show, Kill Your Television. Jeff has sound designed numerous productions at Antaeus including Wedding Band and is the resident foley artist at L.A. Theatre Works.
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Harry Groener*
KING LEAR
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.
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Adrian LaTourelle*
CORNWALL
Adrian LaTourelle has appeared in numerous television series such as NCIS, Castle, The Legend of Korra, Last Resort, The Closer, House, NCIS:LA, Boston Legal, Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, Numbers, Sons of Anarchy, and Days of Our Lives. His many stage credits include work in some of the best theaters in the country, such as the Mark Taper Forum, the Shakespeare Theater in DC, The Old Globe, the San Jose Rep, the Dallas Theater Center, ANTAEUS, and the Yale Repertory Theater. Adrian has also worked abroad, performing in theater and film in Russia and the Netherlands.
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Dakin Matthews
KING LEAR
(Co-Founder, first Artistic Director): The Wood Demon, Mysteries and Mayhem, Of Mice and Men, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Mercadet, The Liar, The Proof of the Promise, Swansong, King Lear. Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Iceman Cometh, Waitress: The Musical,The Audience, Rocky, The Best Man, A Man for All Seasons, Henry IV. Off-Broadway: Measure for Measure, All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare in the Park); The Winter’s Tale, The Cherry Orchard (Bridge Project); The School for Scandal, The Hostage (Acting Company). Regional: over 200 productions for (among others) Center Theatre Group, Old Globe, South Coast Rep, California Actors Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Dallas Theatre Center, and various Shakespeare Festivals. Film: over 25 films, including Lincoln, True Grit, Zero Charisma. TV: over 250 episodes, recurring on Desperate Housewives, Gilmore Girls, King of Queens. Also an Emeritus Professor of English, former Juilliard Instructor, Shakespeare scholar, and award-winning playwright, translator, and dramaturge.
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Adam Meyer
FIRST KNIGHT
At ANTAEUS: Mother Courage, Tonight at 8:30, King Lear, The Malcontent, Peace In Our time, Macbeth, and Oedipus. He is a founding A2 Rep of the A2 ensemble. Currently, he is involved in the two person tour called Marilyn Madness and Me about Marilyn Monroe and her limo driver. He has done Theatre all over the US at such reputable theatres as The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Cortland Repertory Theatre. Some TV credits include: Untold Stories from the E.R. (TLC) and Ella and Me (Animal Planet). He has appeared in many comedy sketches on www.meyerbros.net. He is currently studying with Lesly Kahn Studios. Rebecca Miller is a beautiful soul and without her, he is nothing. @AdamJohnMeyer, www.adamtheactor.com
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Robert Pine*
GLOUCESTER
A year hardly goes by where Robert does not appear in a play locally or somewhere around the country. Most recently he played in Richmond, VA in Ted Lange’s Lady Patriot, which is the fourth play he has done with Ted. His theatrical home is with the Antaeus Theatre Company where he has most recently played Geronte in David Ives wonderful adaptation of Corneille’s 1648 play, The Liar. His other shows with Antaeus include Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8:30, Cousin Bette and King Lear.
Robert has been acting for 51 years and has a robust list of film and TV credits which can be found on imbd.com.
Has been married for 48 years to Gwynne who is a psycho-therapist. And they are the proud parents of Katie, also a psycho-therapist and Chris, a fine actor in his own right.
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John Sloan*
EDGAR
At ANTAEUS: Mother Courage and Her Children, King Lear, Macbeth. Elsewhere in Los Angeles: Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Theatre@Boston Court, The Matrix. Other appearances around the country include: Denver Center Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, La Mama Etc., Soho Rep., American Jewish Theatre, Mint Theatre Company. TV: Bones, NCIS, Farmed & Dangerous, Liz & Dick, How I Met Your Mother, Happy Hour, Private Practice, Grey’s Anatomy, The Triangle, CSI:NY, Judging Amy, Commander in Chief, Gilmore Girls. Film: The Oh in Ohio, Lady Killers, The Mountain King. John is a graduate of Skidmore College.
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Stephen Caffrey
FOOL
At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Henry IV, Part One, King Lear, Autumn Garden, as well as, The Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep., Berkeley Rep., American Conservatory Theatre, Old Globe, Portland Centre Stage, Classic Stage Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Royal George, Laguna Playhouse, Theatre on the Square, Merrimack Rep., The Met, The Zephyr, The Evidence Room, Playmakers Rep., among others. And many TV & Film credits. He is currently recurring on NBC's Odyssey.
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JD Cullum*
FOOL
At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, As You Like It, Hedda Gabler, Cloud 9. Other Theater: Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse. Recent appearances include Tolstoy in Suffolk (Studio C Artists), For Piano and Harpo (Garry Marshall Theater), All the Way (South Coast Repertory). TV: The Orville, Aquarius, Bones.
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Rebecca Mozo*
CORDELIA
At ANTAEUS: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Uncle Vanya, Top Girls, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Ovation Nomination), Peace in Our Time, King Lear, Cousin Bette and Pera Palas. With South Coast Repertory: Going to A Place Where You Already Are (World Premiere), Five Mile Lake (World Premiere), 4000 Miles, The Parisian Woman (World Premiere), In the Next Room or the vibrator play, A Wrinkle in Time, Emilie (World Premiere) The Heiress and Doubt, a parable. Her other theater credits include Cock at Rogue Machine Theatre (Ovation Award); We Are Proud to Present... at The Matrix Theatre; The Savannah Disputation, Educating Rita and Trying at The Colony Theatre Company; The Cherry Orchard at Center Theatre Group. Film and Television credits include: You Bury Your Own, Zerophilia, Headless Horseman, The Waterhole, Cold Case, Medium, Modern Family, Break a Hip and Kittens in a Cage. She has also narrated several audiobooks including The Vampire Diaries series as well as Sara B. Larson’s DEFY series. She will be featured alongside 8 other LA-based theater actors in the documentary LOVE 99, narrated by Helen Mirren. Mozo earned her BFA from Rutgers University and studied at The Globe Theatre in London.
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Brett D. Colbeth
FRANCE/1ST SERVANT
Nick Cagle
OSWALD
AT ANTAEUS: King Lear, Chekhov x4 and others. Regional: Peer Gynt (La Jolla Playhouse); The Elephant Man (Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company); Uncanny Valley, The Exit Interview (San Diego REP); Louis and Keely Live at the Sahara (The Geffen Playhouse directed by Taylor Hackford); Miss Nelson’s Missing (Main Street Theater Company); The Three Musketeers (Sierra Repertory Theater); Hamlet (The Curtis Theater); Godspell (Segerstrom Center for the Arts); The Nerd, A Wonderful Life (Laguna Playhouse). Other Los Angeles Credits: A Splintered Soul, The Foreigner (The Odyssey Theater Ensemble); The Misanthrope (ANDAK theater company), Lost Electra (International City Theater). Film: The Power of One (dir. John G. Avildsen), American Socialist: Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs. TV: Unscripted (dir. George Clooney). Video Games: The voice of Double D in Just Survive (SONY). Attended the Boston Conservatory and is a graduate of the The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
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Thompson Tessa
CORDELIA
Allegra Fulton
GONERIL
Morlan Higgins
KENT
Morlan returns to the stage after a three year absence to concentrate on his music. He plays, sings and is the principal songwriter for the Celtic band Staggering Jack. He previously appeared with Antaeus as Kent in King Lear. He worked at the Fountain Theatre many times in the Athol Fugard plays Exits and Entrances, Blue Iris, Victory and The Train Driver. Also at the Fountain: After the Fall and Boys in the Band. He can currently be seen online in the web series Lucky Jay and the indie feature Inverse. He has worked on many different LA stages and has won multiple Ovation, LADCC and LA Weekly awards. Happy to be back “guesting” for Antaeus.
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Thomas Vincent Kelly
ALBANY
Production Team
William Shakespeare
Playwright
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays (including Hamlet, MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Much ado About Nothing, Richard III, King Lear, and numerous other seminal works), 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
*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
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