Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Written by: Christopher Hampton, From the Novel by Choderlos de Laclos
Directed by: Robin Larsen
RUN TIME
Two hours and 30 minutes, which includes one 10-minute intermission
ADVISORY
Recommended for Ages 18+
Set among the decadent ruling class of pre-revolutionary France, this Olivier Award-winning play is a seductive and unsettling tale of sex and revenge in an all-too-recognizable world, where love is a blood sport played for glory and malice, and men have all – almost all – the power.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Cast
Paul Culos*
LE CHEVALIER DANCENY
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.
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Aaron Lyons*
AZOLAN
At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Crucible, Cousin Bette. Other Theater: Devil And Billy Markham (award winning one man show, Zenith Ensemble); Pulp Shakespeare (Asylum Theatre); Delusion (Haunted Play); Hamlet (ASC); A Midsummer’s Night Dream (ASC). TV/Film: Bell Canyon, The Wasteland (Historian), Unfriended, To The Beat, To The Beat 2, Saint George, Weeds. Training: B.A., University of Massachusetts @ Amherst, Antaeus Theatre Company , Lecoq Mask Intensive, Studio 24/7, To Play Not Work Studio.
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Chad Borden*
AZOLAN
At ANTAEUS: Cloud 9, The Curse of Oedipus. Premiere of Serrano at the Matrix Theatre. Other SoCal: South Coast Rep, Pasadena & Laguna Playhouses, Rubicon, Hollywood Bowl, Reprise, La Mirada, San Diego Music Theatre, Colony, Elephant, & Havok Theatre Company. Regional: AMT San Jose, Sacramento Music Circus, Cincinnati Playhouse, Boston Merrimack Rep, and Chicago Marriott. National Tours: Camelot, Duke Ellington Songbook. FILM: Hunky Dory (Official Selection Slamdance 2016). Television: The Cape, Girls Behaving Badly, General Hospital, and Bold/Beautiful. Ovation Awards: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Havok), The Laramie Project (Colony) and five other nominations (Lead & Supporting Actor, Producer). Education: Northwestern University.
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Dylan Jones
MME DE VOLANGES
Dylan Jones is a native Angelina, proud Antaeus A2 & Elephant Theater Company member. Theatrical highlights include Theatre Movement Bazaar’s Track 3, the Elephant’s Block Nine and 7 Redneck Cheerleaders, her one-woman show Pink Champagne and Zoo District’s The Master and Margarita. She can be seen in various television shows and films and is known as the Blueshammer girl in the cult classic Ghost World. Find her any night singing and dancing with her band FREAKSTAR or any morning with Gwendolyn & the Good Time Gang. She enjoys long walks at sunset and lepidoptery.
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Henri Lubatti*
LE VICOMTE DE VALMONT
Henri is a Los Angeles based actor, originally from Seattle, who holds both US and French citizenship. His stage credits include work at the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory Theater, the Old Globe in San Diego, the Seattle Repertory Theater, and the Intiman Theater in Seattle. On television he starred in the Showtime series Sleeper Cell. Other TV credits include recent appearances on Hawaii 5-O, Battle Creek, and Salem.
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Anne McNaughton*
MME DE ROSEMONDE
Elyse Mirto*
LA MARQUISE DE MERTEUIL
At ANTAEUS: Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Audrey in As You Like It. Other LA theaters: Most recently Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love and Mother in Little Black Shadows (South Coast Repertory). Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Boops (Boston Court Pasadena), Barbecue (The Geffen Playhouse), A Flea in Her Ear, The Guardsman, Figaro (A Noise Within, LA Drama Critics Circle nomination), Conviction (The Rubicon Theatre, Ovation nomination), Forever House (Skylight Theatre Company), Steel Magnolias (Laguna Playhouse), Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing (The Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival). New York Theater: White’s Lies (Off-Broadway), Any Day Now (New York Innovative Theatre Award), Next Year in Jerusalem (NYIT nomination), Catch the Fish, The Eternal Husband. Chicago Theater: The Goodman and Chicago Shakespeare Rep. TV: Criminal Minds, Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, NCIS, Cold Case, Law & Order: SVU, Malibu Gothic, and a recurring role on The Last Ship. Elyse has also been seen in numerous independent films and national television commercials. BFA from Western Michigan University. Royal National Theatre of Great Britain.
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Liza Seneca*
LA PRÉSIDENTE DE TOURVEL
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.
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Ellis Greer*
ÉMILIE
As a member of Antaeus Theatre Company, Ellis most recently recorded 90303: Inglewood - The Vig, an episode of “The Zip Code Plays." Other Antaeus credits include Native Son, Three Days in the Country, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Ellis can be also seen and heard in many L.A. Theatre Works audio theatre productions including The Thanksgiving Play, Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die, The Goodbye Girl, Jefferson’s Garden and the National Tour of LATW’s Seven. In early 2023 she’ll play Lucille Ball in the LATW National Tour of “Lucy Loves Desi: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom.” Other L.A. theatre credits include Native Son at Center Theatre Group’s “Block Party,” The Matchmaker at Actor’s Co-op, and workshops and staged readings at Pasadena Playhouse, Independent Shakespeare Co. and others. Regional theatre credits include Desdemona, a play about a handkerchief at Opera House Arts, The Many Women of Troy with Pallas Theatre Collective and The Diary of Anne Frank with Oklahoma Children’s Theatre. She received a BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California.
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Paul Stanko
MAJORDOMO
At ANTAEUS: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Other Theaters: Three Musketeers (Palos Verdes Performing Arts), Twelfth Night (Four Clowns), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (After Hours Theater), Les Blancs (Rogue Machine Theatre), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatricum Botanicum), Kaidan (Rogue Artists Ensemble), The Hairy Ape (Odyssey Theatre). TV/Film: Ultraman Cosmos, Superior. Streaming: Severus Snape and the Marauders (YouTube), Dick Hopper Private Eye (Amazon). Training: Antaeus Academy, ComedySportz, BA Theater Studies/Acting, USC. stankoforever.com
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Turner Frankosky
MAJORDOMO
At ANTAEUS: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Turner is from Boston and received his training at USC. Other Theaters: Four Clowns, Akvavit, Wet the Hippo Collective, Rogue Machine, Theatricum Botanicum, Shakespeare Center LA, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, and Theater at Monmouth. Turner studies fiddle with David Bragger.
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Reiko Aylesworth*
LA MARQUISE DE MERTEUIL
At ANTAEUS: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Theater: Top Girls (Williamstown Theater), Shakespeare and The Last Stand Quartet (Kennedy Center), Lost and Found (NYFT/Lucille Lortel), Expats (New Group Theater), Humpty Dumpty (McCarter Theater), Robbers (American Place Theater), Missing Marissa Kissing Christine (Primary Stages), Cheap Sentiment (George Street Playhouse). TV/Film: Seal Team, Scorpion, NCIS, Elementary, Person of Interest, Hawaii 5-0, Lights Out, Lost, Damages, ER, The Good Wife, Revolution, CSI, 24, Stargate Universe, Ed, The West Wing, Conviction, Law & Order SVU, Muscle, Mr. Brooks, Random Hearts, The Understudy, Bad Parents, Alien vs Predator: Requiem. Member of The Actors Center NYC.
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Scott Ferrara*
LE VICOMTE DE VALMONT
At ANTAEUS: Debut. New York Theater: Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, The Mystery Plays (Second Stage), Avow (Century Center). Other Theater: The School for Scandal, To Fool the Eye, Julius Caesar, Misalliance (Guthrie Theater), The Rivals (Huntington Theater), Hamlet, Amy’s View (Denver Center), The Pillowman (George Street Playhouse), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (The Old Globe), Hamlet (PICT), The Silent Woman (Shakespeare Theatre Company), The Real Thing (Pasadena Playhouse). TV: The Brink, Modern Family, 24. Training: MFA, USD/Old Globe.
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Lindsay LaVanchy
LA PRÉSIDENTE DE TOURVEL
At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus. Other Theater: Heavier than... (The Theatre @ Boston Court), Baby Doll (The Fountain Theatre, West Coast Premiere), The Night of the Iguana (Pasadena Playhouse, Tennessee Williams Reading Series), Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night (or What You Will) (The Illyrian Players), The Muny Opera, St. Louis MO. TV: Castle, Criminal Minds, NCIS: Los Angeles, Scream, The Tyler Zone, Emmys Can Kill. Film: The Labyrinth, Dembanger, City of Frames, Here, Hold Grandma. Agents: KMR. Training: BA Theatre, UCLA; Action Theatre in Berlin, Germany; Linklater in Stromboli, Italy
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Bellina Logan*
MME DE VOLANGES
At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theater: The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life…Revisited (Los Angeles LGBT Center), Agamemnon (Getty Villa). New York Theater: Women and Wallace, Seniority (Playwrights Horizons), For Dear Life (The Public Theater), Merchant of Venice (NYSF). Regional Theater: The Illusion, Arms and The Man, The Rivals (Hartford Stage), As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Five by Tenn (The Acting Company, USSR Tour). TV/Film: ER, Twin Peaks, Sons of Anarchy, Enlightened, Midnight, Texas. Training: The Juilliard School.
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Chelsea Kurtz*
CÉCILE VOLANGES
At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Other Theater: Romeo and Juliet (Arizona Theatre Company), Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Boops (The Theatre @ Boston Court). TV/Film: Scandal, Longmire, The Last Ship, Secrets and Lies, Castle, The Flash. Training: BFA, Boston University, Acting; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Classical Certificate.
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Elizabeth Rian
CÉCILE VOLANGES
At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theaters: DED! (Matrix Theatre), Richard II (Hawaii Shakespeare Festival). TV/Film: Jane the Virgin, My Crazy Ex. Elizabeth wrote, produced and starred in her own original production of The Kindness of Strangers at the Hollywood Fringe Fest 2016. Elizabeth graduated with honors from Chapman University with a BA in Theatre.
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Josh Breslow*
LE CHEVALIER DANCENY
At ANTAEUS: Debut. New York Theater: Unhealthy (HERE), Squiggy and the Goldfish, Trees Like Nails, An Air Balloon Across Antarctica (Cherry Lane Theater). LA Theater: Flowers for Algernon, Oliver! (Deaf West), Theater District (Black Dahlia, LA Ticketholder Award: Best Supporting Actor, Two Garland Award Nominations), and others. Film: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Love & Other Drugs, Trial By Fire, Houdini. TV: New Girl, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Once and Again, General Hospital, The Brothers Garcia. Web series: Dating Avi, Naked Funeral, Reliance, Wing Women, Bloodlight.
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Lorna Raver*
MME DE ROSEMONDE
At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Macbeth. Other Theater: Oedipus the King, Richard III, Antigone (A Noise Within), The Seagull (Matrix Theatre), The Women (San Diego Repertory). TV: Grey’s Anatomy, Bones, CSI, Weeds, Nip/Tuck, NYPD Blue, Star Trek: Voyager, Boston Legal, ER, The Young and the Restless. Film: Freeway, Rushlights, Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell. Her audiobook narrations have received numerous Earphones Awards and Audie Award nominations.
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Nadège August
ÉMILIE
At ANTAEUS: Wedding Band. Other Theater: Sunset Baby (NAACP Best Lead Actress Nomination), Desire Under The Elms (Odyssey Theatre, NAACP Theatre award Best Supporting Female nomination), Three Sisters After Chekhov (Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble). TV: Alex, Inc, Key and Peele, Castle, Criminal Minds, Dexter, 1600 Penn, Happy Endings, Mr. Sunshine, The Mentalist, Make It or Break It, The Unit, Silver Lake. Film: Out Of Time, Undercover Bridesmaid, Raven's Touch, The Last Letter, The Brothers, Runt. Creator of the Series Bougie Dilemma on Amazon. Lifetime member of The Actors Studio.
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Matthew Lindberg
FOOTMAN
At ANTAEUS: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Other Credits: Les Blancs (Rogue Machine Theatre), Winter is Coming: A Game of Thrones Muscial Parody (MB Stage Productions), and Hamlet, Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party, She Kills Monsters (Sonoma State University). Education: Antaeus Academy Member, BA in Theatre from Sonoma State University, Private Coaching with Lauren Lovett. Represented by Rectangle Entertainment. https://matthewlindberg.myefolio.com
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Christopher Tilley
FOOTMAN
At Antaeus: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. New York credits: Major Barbara (Brave New World Repertory Theatre), Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Midtown International Theatre Festival). He has toured around California the last year with Psycho the Musical (MASQ Entertainment). TV/Film: The Carrie Diaries, Oak Bones. Training: Chris is a graduate of The William Esper Studio.
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Production Team
Christopher Hampton
Writer - From the Novel by Choderlos de Laclos
Robin Larsen
Director
