Mercadet

Antaeus member since 1991. At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, The Seagull, The Malcontent, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, The Ugly Duckling, Mercadet, Pedrolino & The Hanky of Doom, The Blind One-Armed Deaf Mute, and The Wood Demon.  ClassicFest: Cyrano de Bergerac, Richard III, Lucky Chance, Merry Wives of Windsor, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, Penny For A Song, Collaborators. He is a master teacher of commedia dell’Arte, which he studied under the late Carlo Mazzone-Clementi. LA theater: The Capulets & The Montagues, The Importance of Being Ernest (LAWS); The Arsonists (LA  Weekly  nominee); Fafalo!, Golden  State (Dell’Arte); Master  Class (Mark Taper); La Bête, Bullshot Crummond, Footlight Frenzy and productions at The Powerhouse, Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, The Magic Theatre (S.F.). Film & TV: Almost Broadway, Born Yesterday, Book of Love, Night of the Comet, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Days of Our Lives, McBride, Lazarus Man, Quantum Leap, and the role of Don Kipper on CBS’ Bailey Kipper’s P.O.V. John also teaches workshops in commedia dell’Arte with Studio Zanni & the Antaeus Academy, and various classes at Santa Monica Emeritus College and the University of Redlands.

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: Chekhov X4, The Ugly Duckling, Mercadet, Of Mice and Men, Mysteries and Mayhem. Other Theatres: The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Mark Taper Forum), Bullshot Crummond (The Coronet Theatre), Houseguest & Familiar Faces, Mixed Feelings (Los Angeles Actor’s Theatre), Throckmorton, TX (LA Performance Unit). Originally from Los Gatos, CA, Martin joined California Actor’s Theatre in 1975. While there, he performed in numerous productions alongside Sandy McCallum and David Ogden Stiers, as well as future Antaeans Dakin Matthews (founding Artistic Director), and Kurtwood Smith (fellow founding member). Since moving to Los Angeles in 1979, he has had recurring roles on Miami Vice and Hillstreet Blues, as well as guest spots on Cheers, M*A*S*H, Mork and Mindy, Happy Days, L.A. Law, The Practice, and The X-Files. He has also worked in film, most notably as the ill-fated lawyer in Jurassic Park, as well as Heat, Get Shorty, The Tailor of Panama, Gods and Monsters, Oscar, High Spirits, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles. He is a founding member of Antaeus, and a proud member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA.

At ANTAEUS: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Picnic; Pera Palas, Mercadet, Chekhov X 4, The Women, Of Thee I Sing, Dickens and Crime, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Freddy’s Last Concert (Playwright’s Festival), Regular Joes (LAB RESULTS), multiple ClassicsFests. Other theater credits include Post Office (Mark Taper Forum workshop); The Refugee Hotel (Mark Taper Forum New Works Festival); The Indolent Boys (Wells Fargo Radio Theater); Mortified!; Show & Tell (UCB); Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Theater BAM). Film/TV: Alpha; 100 Girls; Star Trek: First Contact; All My Children; The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, 7^th Heaven, Charmed. VO: Sofia the First, Flash Forward. Krinsky is a sought after broadcast host with a focus on entertainment and science/technology. She currently hosts Tomorrow’s World Today on Discovery Networks and Science Channel and works for Marvel Live!, anchoring their red carpet film premieres and special events. She has covered the Oscars and the Emmys, and shot over 30 episodes of the weekly tech show The Spotlight for Tom’s Guide. She was recognized by the Webby Awards for writing/hosting That Indie Film Show and won an Emmy Award for her writing on Emma Approved, a multi-platform adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. tamarakrinsky.com.

(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.

At ANTAEUS: Appeared in The Malcontent, Tonight at 8:30,  The Man Who Had All the Luck, Mercadet, Mother Courage, ClassicsFest in 2006 and 2008; co-directed The Crucible.  Other directing credits include A Walk in the Woods at Sierra Madre and Ruffian on the Stair. He appeared on Broadway in Translations and An American Daughter;  several Off-Broadway productions and tours. Radio work with LA Theatre Works in The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial and Top Secret. Extensive regional work includes South Coast Rep, La Mirada Theater, Lincoln Amphitheatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and The Rep Theatre of St. Louis. Also Pennsylvania Stage, Center Stage, GeVa, the Guthrie, Denver Center and Carbonell nominated performances at the Caldwell. Many leading roles at Vermont’s Weston Playhouse. TV: NCIS, Brothers & Sisters, Numbers, ER, Justice, Monk, Scrubs, King of Queens, Law and Order, and so on. Film: City Hall and the award winning short Tres. He is the staff photographer at ANTAEUS, and has taught at the Academy since 2003.

At ANTAEUS: The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, Mercadet and Mother Courage. She also has appeared as Madame Arkadina in The Seagull and in several ClassicsFests, most recently as Lady of Larkspur Lotion and as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.  Other stage credits include works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Wilde, Caryle Churchill, A.R. Gurney, Stoppard, Williams, as well as new plays and numerous adaptations produced Off-Broadway, at Arena Stage and the National Theatre in D.C., Pennsylvania Centre Stage, LA Theatre Centre, Laguna Playhouse, La Mirada, Theatre@Boston Court, ICT, The Odyssey and Pacific Resident Theater. She also was featured in The National Tour of Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) and Amadeus. A founding member of the Classical Theatre Company and longtime member of the The Colony Theatre, her work has earned her Ovation, LADCC, LA Weekly, Back Stage Garland and Robby Awards. TV/film credits include Up All Night, Men of a Certain Age, The Unit, 3rd Rock from The Sun, That 70’s Show and the award winning shorts, Mosaic and Creosote.  Laura graduated summa cum laude from UC Santa Barbara and received her Masters from Penn State University. She also studied at Circle In The Square Theatre School and with Milton Katselas’ in his Saturday Master Class.