Love and Information

At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, readings of The Rover; Mayor of the 85th Floor. Frequent participant of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. Other Theater: My Children, My Africa! (Marin Theatre Company); A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater); Exonerated (Lynx Performance Theatre); Good Breeding (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts); Hamlet Machine (Ion Theatre). TV/Film: 40; Easy Made Hard; The Institute. Training: B.A., San Diego State University; M.F.A., American Conservatory Theater. Member: AEA, SAG.

At ANTAEUS: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Diana of Dobson's, The Hothouse, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Mother Courage and her Children, Trial By Jury, Patience, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Wood Demon. A founding member and early co-artistic director. Other Stages: Hillary and Bill (Victory Gardens Theater), The Imaginary Invalid, Glengarry Glen Ross, The First Picture Show (American Conservatory Theater), 36 Views (Laguna Playhouse), Archy and Mehitabel: A Back Alley Opera (The Yard, Chilmark), Temptation, The Wood Demon (Mark Taper Forum), Sex Parasite, Largo Desolato (Taper, Too), The History Boys (Ahmanson Theatre), Durango (East West Players), A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center).

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.

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

At ANTAEUS: Eight Nights, reading of The Tempest. Zoe (they/he) is an actor, writer, and clown. Recent films: Here to Stay, The October Martyr. They are signed with Queer UP, LA’s premier LGBT+ management agency, and facilitate a bi-monthly queer writing group. Zoe has performed vaudeville at Second City, Dynasty Typewriter, The Lyric Hyperion and more. He received his BA in Acting and Directing from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. Protect trans kids. Instagram: @mx.zoe.yale

At ANTAEUS: Love and Information. Other Recent Theatre Credits Include: Pretendo (Center Theatre Group), Rent (Coeurage Ensemble), Brigadoon!, Sunday in the Park with George (Musical Theatre Guild), A Star is Born (Rockwell Table and Stage), 42nd St. (3D Theatricals), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Backroom Shakespeare Project), More Guns (Second City), Pacific Overtures (Chromolume) TV/Film: Echoes, Single’s Inferno (Netflix), Attaway General (Brat TV) Training: B.F.A. Acting from Hussian College Los Angeles.

At ANTAEUS: Love and Information. Regional credits include: A Christmas Carol (A Noise Within); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Greenway Court Theatre); The Judas Kiss (Boston Court, Pasadena); Two Rooms (Lounge Theatre); Seminar (Pop Up Theater). Watch for him in the upcoming Amy Adams film Nightbitch. TV includes: Chicago Med, Tacoma FD, Silicon Valley, SWAT, Grace and Frankie, Kidding. Darius misses iO West, and is always grateful to book club, Faline, family, and leadership-LAB.org for all their support of storytelling and listening.

AT ANTAEUS: As You Like It, Love & Information, The Tempest; Other credits: Alabaster (The Fountain Theatre), Life Sucks (Interact Theater Company), Worst Laid Plans (Upright Citizens Brigade, co-creator), My Break-Up Playlist (Rogue Machine Theatre, writer/performer), Bunny Bunny (The Garry Marshall Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (Ensemble Theatre Company), and Neil LaBute’s Filthy Talk for Troubled Times (UK premiere). Film and TV credits include: Recurring role in Physical (Apple TV, Seasons 1, 2, and 3), Good Trouble (Freeform), Grace and Frankie (Netflix), American Princess (Lifetime), and No Activity (Comedy Central). Other credits include: Chad (TBS), Happy Endings (ABC), American Housewife (ABC), Magnum P.I. (CBS), Homecoming (Netflix), Here Comes the Bride (Lifetime), NCIS: LA (CBS), Criminal Minds (CBS), and Comedy Bang! Bang! (IFC). Training: BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; The Meisner Studio; Experimental Theatre Wing; and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Emily Chase recently directed Eight Nights at Antaeus (LA Times Critics Choice, Ovation Recommended). Her other directing credits include Dakin Matthews’s Divorce Court Hell  (Antaeus); productions at Sierra Madre Playhouse, The Road Theatre, Theater 40, and numerous developmental workshops at Antaeus, The Road Theatre, Playwrights Union, Moving Arts, Met Theater, and Classical Theater Lab. Her past classes at the Antaeus Academy include: It’s Alive! The Nuts and Bolts of Acting in New Plays; Modern Classics; and Ringing the Rafters: Voice for the Classical Actor. She has taught acting and directed productions at UCLA, the University of Southern California, U.C. Riverside, AMDA, and A Noise Within. She is the Director of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. As an actress, she has performed at Antaeus in As You Like It, Tonight at 8:30, Cousin Bette, Peace In Our Time, Patience, Trial By Jury, The Liar. Additional acting credits include South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, The Matrix Theatre, The El Portal Theatre, Getty Center, Ford Theater, and in TV, film, and web series. She recently starred in the film Ready, which was selected by the Cannes Short Film Corner. Emily earned her M.F.A. from UCLA.

Caryl Lesley Churchill is a British playwright whose work has been associated with surrealist and postmodern theatre. She was born in London on September 3, 1938. Her family moved to Montreal after World War II, where Churchill matriculated at the Trafalgar School for Girls. In 1957, Churchill moved back to England to attend Oxford University, where she earned a B.A. in English Literature in 1960. During her time at Oxford, Churchill wrote four plays – Downstairs, You’ve No Need to be Frightened, Having a Wonderful Time, and Easy Death – all of which were performed by Oxford student theater groups. In 1961, Churchill married David Harrister, with whom she has three sons. Churchill started her post-college career writing radio and television dramas for the BBC. Her notable works from this era include The Ants (1962), Lovesick (1967) and Abortive(1971). In 1972, Churchill wrote her first stage play, Owners, which premiered at London’s Royal Court Theater. She became the resident dramatist there from 1974-1975. During the 1970s and 1980s, Churchill worked with numerous theater companies, including Joint Stock and Monstrous Regiment. She has won three Obie Awards for her plays Cloud Nine (1979), Top Girls (1982), and Serious Money (1987), and two Susan Smith Blackburn prizes for Fen (1984) and Serious Money. During the 1990s and 2000s, she continued to write plays and more experimental works such as Hotel (1997), a collaborative sung ballet set in a hotel room, and Love and Information (2012), an experimental collage of 100 characters performing over 50 short, fragmentary episodes. Churchill’s drama is widely recognized for abandoning realist approaches to theater in favor of surrealist experimentation, postmodern exploration of language, and an emphasis on the sexual politics and legacies of feminism. She draws upon Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud's experimental approaches to theater which consider plays to be a political art form with the power to transform false senses of reality. Churchill is associated with Socialist Theater and left wing critical responses to the policies of Margaret Thatcher. Churchill wrote Top Girls during Thatcher’s rule, and it explores the complicated relationship between capitalism and feminism. Churchill has translated and published a version of Seneca’s Thyestes, and an adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play.