Peace in Our Time

John Allee is an Ovation Award nominee and ensemble member of Antaeus, where he has appeared in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Cloud 9, Uncle Vanya, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It with You, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, and more. Other Stage Highlights: The Mystery of Irma Vep, A Man for All Seasons, The Man Who Came to Dinner, 33 Variations (Actors Co-op); Much Ado About Nothing (Kingsmen Shakespeare Co); Little Shop of Horrors (Arizona Theatre Company); Assassins (Los Angeles Theatre Center); Alone Together (Pasadena Playhouse); A Midsummer Night's Dream (LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera); One Thousand Cranes (Mark Taper Forum); and Chaplin (Pre-Broadway). On TV, he played Pasha on the Starz series Flesh and Bone. Podcast audiences can hear him on Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene. John is also an award-winning singer-songwriter and recording artist. His latest album is Past Imperfect. Johnallee.com

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.

At ANTAEUS: Cloud 9, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Seagull, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, Pera Palas. Other Theater: Primary Stages, South Coast Repertory, Ensemble Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre, Black Dahlia, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, L.A. Theatre Works, Pasadena Playhouse, Rogue Machine Theatre. Film: Hypnotized, Life As We Know It, He’s Just Not That Into You, Ravenous. Television: recurring on Major Crimes, Shameless, Kendra; series regular on Public Morals, Total Security, NYPD Blue. Spoken Word: Sit ‘n Spin, Rant & Rave, Spark Off Rose, as well as numerous other storytelling venues. Billbrochtrup.com

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.

Etta Devine recently directed and starred in the feature Diani and Devine Meet The Apocalypse with fellow member Gabriel Diani. Like their first movie The Selling, Diani And Devine Meet The Apocalypse features many Anteans. Also with Gabriel Diani, she published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn {Robotic Edition} and is half of the comedic duo Diani & Devine. Etta can be heard doing multiple voices for the cartoon Bee and Puppycat. At ANTAEUS Etta played Gret/Angie in Top Girls, Phyllis in Peace In Our Time, and Ismene in the Legend Of Oedipus with the Getty Villa.

A member since 2000, Mark has been seen on the Antaeus stage in The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Malcontent and Peace In Our Time. Los Angeles area work includes: Grail Project, Big Shot, TRACK 3 & The Treatment (Theatre Movement Bazaar); Little Black Shadows (South Coast Rep); Mirette (MainStreet Theatre). Broadway: The Visit w/Jane Alexander and Harris Yulin, Off-Broadway: Sharon:The Musical, adapted/directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald. A Juilliard School graduate, Mark has studied Shakespeare in Oxford, Chekov in Moscow and musical theatre in Ann Arbor. Proud Equity member since 1992. More delicious tidbits: markdoerr.com

At ANTAEUS: Wedding Band, Top Girls, Peace In Our Time and many ClassicsFest readings. A2 productions include: Celebration, The Typists, The Thin Man and The After-Dinner Joke. UK Theatre: The Woman In Black (No.1 UK and Asia Tour), The Gift(London Tour), The Two Noble Kinsman(Latchmere Theatre, Battersea). Film: Diani & Devine Meet The Apocalypse, I Am I, The Selling. Can also be seen on the Web in: The Sanctum, Mary Olson, Pucker and others. Trained at Drama Studio London and SUNY Purchase. Website: karianneflaathen.com

EVE GORDON (Aimee Semple McPherson): At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson’s, As You Like It, Picnic, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Peace in Our Time, The Autumn Garden. Other Theater: Open House (Skylight Theatre); The Ugly One (EST/LA); The End of the Day (Coast Playhouse); Candide (Goodman Theatre); Hang On To Me (Guthrie Theatre, Peter Sellars); Africanis Instructus (Festival d’Automne, Richard Foreman); Measure for Measure (Yale Repertory Theatre, John Madden); others. TV/FILM: Felicity; Honey We Shrunk Ourselves; Big Little Lies; Irresistible, Don’t Trust the B in Apt 23, others. Training: Brown University and Yale School of Drama.

Belen began working with Antaeus in 2011, playing Gladys in their award-winning production of Noel Coward’s Peace In Our Time. Also at ANTAEUS: Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, The Curse of Oedipus, Shakespeare’s King Phycus, The Thin Man and many ClassicsFests. In 2013, Antaeus took the reading of Allan Miller’s The Fox to the Annenberg in Palm Springs with Coyote Stageworks – Belen received a Desert Star Award nomination for Best Lead Actress for her performance. In Los Angeles, Belen has performed at The Odyssey, The Hollywood Fringe Festival (Shakepeare’s King Phycus – Best Comedy Nominee and Winner, Best of Fringe Extension 2013) and with Improvatorium’s Sunday Brunch Company. Originally from the Bay Area, Belen has performed in many theaters, including the historic Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Favorite roles include Ilse in Spring Awakening, Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest and Bananas in House of Blue Leaves. She holds a B.A. in French Studies and Theater from Mills College. Additionally, Belen studied Dramatic Literature at University of Paris X (Nanterre) and trained at L’École Nationale du Cirque Annie Fratellini in Paris, France.  Television credits include Space: Above & Beyond, The Net and Nash Bridges. She is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

Lily Knight has appeared in feature films (among them, the upcoming Sky, The Artist, Touch, Changeling, The Secretary, Dahmer, AI), on over 50 television shows (most recently, a recurring role on American Crime, Grey’s Anatomy, Castle, American Horror Story, True Blood, Rizzoli & Isles, and Medium, to name a few) and on Broadway (Agnes of God, As Is, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940) and off Broadway (The Holy Terror, The Early Girl, The Fiery Furnace, among many others) and regionally, at Arena Stage, ATL, Boston Shakespeare Company, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Berkshire and Williamstown Theatre Festivals, and more. Most recently, she performed onstage in A Delicate Balance at the Odyssey, as well as The Crucible, Peace in Our Time, and The Autumn Garden at Antaeus, where she is a company member. Lily tours with Ensemble Galilei in First Person: Seeing America, Universe of Dreams, and Anna’s Garden and is currently cocreating EG’s next show: Galileo and the Lost Marbles. Her next play is Adam Boch’s A Small Fire at the Echo Theatre. Next film, The Role Model.

Anna has appeared at the Royal Court in London, Berkeley Rep, ACT, San Diego Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, and Geffen. Her favorite performances include Peace In Our Time (Ovation Award winner), Holly Jolly Xmas, Deathtroupe, Patience, Trial by Jury, Of Thee I Sing, Bullshot Crummond, Dracula: A Musical Nightmare, Spokesong, and An Evening at Widow Begbick’s. Anna won two Drama-Logue Critic’s Awards for her roles in Footlight Frenzy and The Metamorphosis. She is a member of The Spolin Players, Fred Willard’s MoHo’s, and The Second City Alumni Jam. Anna has appeared with L.A. Theatre Works: Uncle Vanya and Cyrano. Anna’s voice has also graced Better Call Saul, Air Force One for the BBC, Turn, Gossip Girl, NCIS, Water for Elephants, The Hangover, Borat, 24, Dennis the Menace (as Alice Mitchell) as well as countless video games. She has a degree in Dramatic Arts from UC Berkeley.

Ann Noble is a Chicago Native with over twenty-five years of professional experience in the theatre as an actor, playwright, director and educator.  In addition to teaching at Antaeus, she currently teaches at Berg Studios (Technique I & II) as well as at the Hyperion Arts Center/Studio A Dance (Scene Study).  As a director, her recent credits include Smoke with LifeChild Productions and Moonshine Mamas with Two Heads Are Better Productions.  With Antaeus, she recently directed two of the Classic Sunday Readings of Shaw’s St. Joan and Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, which she is slated to co-direct in its full production this winter with Armin Shimerman.  As an actor, her credits with Antaeus are Hedda Gabler, The Crucible, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time, The Liar and The Malcontent.  Her other theatre acting credits include: BLISS, or Emily Post is Dead  with Moving Arts; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, and Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story of Barack Obama’s Mother all with LA’s LGBT Center; Other Desert Cities with ICT of Long Beach; American Dead with Rogue Machine; Orange Flower Water with the Victory; Belfry with Malibu Playhouse; An Ideal Husband with Sierra Madre Playhouse; The Fall To Earth, Bedroom Farce and London’s Scars with the Odyssey; Betrayal with ETC of Santa Barbara; Sidhe, And Neither Have I Wings To Fly, The Friendly Hour, Big Death & Little Death, Shove and Bunbury all with the Road; and over six productions with South Coast Rep.  She also teaches acting and writing to incarcerated/at risk youth at several schools/institutions around LA including Homeboy Industries, and also works as a theatre director/instructor for youth at LA’s LGBT Center and LA’s Museum of the Holocaust.  She is the current Casting Associate for Antaeus, and, also, will be directing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar for Warriors For Peace this fall.

A proud member of the Antaeus Company since 1991, Melinda has appeared in Company productions of Peace in Our Time, Pera Palas, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Patience, The Long Christmas Dinner, Trial By Jury, Tonight at 8:30, The Plot To Overthrow Christmas among others as well as countless readings, workshops and presentations. In the Southern California theater community she has appeared on a number of stages and received an Ovation nomination for her work in The Illustrated Woman and won Dramalogue awards for Fools Die Fast and for her portrayal as Eleonora Duse in Lillian Groag’s The Ladies of the Camellias.  She has worked at regional theaters across the country (most recently as Agatha Christie in Agatha Christie & the BBC Murders), has made numerous guest appearances on television, has lent her talents to several independent films and writes and performs radio comedy with her darling husband, Philip Proctor.

Phil Proctor is a 15-year member of Antaeus and a 50-year member of the thrice-Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre, recognized as one of the “Thirty Greatest Acts of All Time” with a recording in the Library of Congress. He’s appeared on-and-off Broadway, on street corners in the USSR with the Yale Russian Chorus, in many local and regional theatres, on radio, and in scores of films, video games and TV shows. He’s won Theatre World, LA Weekly, LA Free Press and Drama Critics’ awards, and his voice credits include Toy Story, Spirited Away, Monsters, Inc., Seahorse Bob in Finding Nemo, the Drunken French Monkey in Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Vidic in Assassin’s Creed, and Howard DeVille in the Emmy-winning Rugrats, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is currently featured in the independent films Window of Opportunity, Charity and The Love Addict and tours in a one-man reading of Don Quixote with the L.A. Guitar Quartet.

At ANTAEUS: Uncle Vanya, MacBeth, Peace in Our Time. Other Theatre: A Moon for the Misbegotten (Rubicon Theatre), Nice Things (Rogue Machine), Andronicus (Coeurage Theatre Company),Belfry (Malibu Playhouse), The Liar (The Ensemble Theatre), RII (Boston Court). TV/Film: Why Women Kill, Pretty Boy, Can You Take My Picture. Member: AEA. www.rebekahtripp.com.

At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, The Seagull, Peace in our Time, You Can’t Take It With You. Other Theatre Credits: O Rejane (Bootleg Theater); A Christmas Carol (North Coast Rep); Julius Caesar (New Village Arts); The Passion Play (Odyssey Theater); The Lion in Winter (Broadway Theatre, Vista, CA); King Phycus (Hollywood Fringe Festival “Best of Fringe”). TV credits include: The Last Ship, The Ex List, Life on Mars, recurring on Rizzoli & Isles. Has appeared in over a dozen national commercials and several webseries’ including Combustion and Clothing Optional. As well as directed, starred, and edited the webseries Family Valuables and Sidekick & Roommate. Studied acting at Carey Scott’s Rehearsal Room in San Diego, the summer Shakespeare program at RADA, and several Academy classes at Antaeus. A proud member of the Antaeus Company. Website: https://www.pwwolff.com/

Amelia White is a proud member of Antaeus.  She has appeared on the Antaeus stage in You Can’t Take it With You, Tonight at 8:30 and Penny for a Song. She works in theatre all over the US. Most recently in Blithe Spirit at Northern Stage in VT and in Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike at the Denver Centre, CO.  She  appeared in Silent Sky and Misalliance at So.Coast Rep. (Costa Mesa, CA). Broadway credits include award winning shows Crazy For You in which she created the role of Patricia Fodor, and The Heiress. She won the Theatre World Award for The Accrington Pals (Hudson Guild Theatre, NY) She Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London and is married to Antaean Geoffrey Wade. AEA member.

Buck Zachary is a graduate of Illinois State University, home of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. He comes to Los Angeles from Chicago and is proud to have found an artistic home in The Antaeus Company.

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.

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.

 At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Seagull, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, The Thin Man. Los Angeles: Twelfth Night, Juliet and Her Romeo (Vanguard Rep); Shakespeare's King Phycus (The Flynnsmen). Regional: The Steward of Christendom (Mark Taper Forum); Ten Chimneys (Artists Repertory Theatre). New York: The Other Other Woman, The Merry Widows of Windsor, The Seduction of Adonis, Cupid and Psyche, The Comedy of Heirors (Turn to Flesh Productions); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Red Monkey Theater Group), Ira (Shrunken Shakespeare Company). TV: Zoey 101, iCarly, Sam & Cat. Proud member of Actors Equity Association and Antaeus.

At ANTAEUS: Peace in Our Time, multiple ClassicsFests and readings. Theatre credits include: UK, China, Russia and Southern California tours of Track 3 (Theatre Movement Bazaar, LA Weekly Award Nominee), The Illusion (Open Fist Theatre, LA Weekly Award Nominee), As You Like It (Kingsmen Shakespeare), The Dead (Open Fist), Arcadia (Sierra Madre Playhouse). Film/TV: I Am I, DDMTA, The Selling, Transparent, 9-1-1 and Pearson. Love to D & H.

At ANTAEUS: The Hothouse, Picnic, Peace in Our Time, The Curse of Oedipus, The Autumn Garden, Tonight at 8:30. Other Theater: Broadway credits include Execution of Justice, Alice in Wonderland, The Man Who Came To Dinner. Other New York credits include Three US premiers at the Manhattan Theater Club, including The Rear Column by Simon Gray, Molly (Hudson Guild), The Browning Version (Roundabout), The Old Glory (American Place). Featured Actor Ovation nomination for The Savannah Disputation (The Colony Theatre Company). TV/Film: Mr. Clark had a supporting role in the Disney film McFarland, USA, recently completed filming a leading role on the indie film The Wanting Mare and has appeared in many television shows, most recently The Last Ship, Westworld (recurring), How To Get Away With Murder, Murder In The First (recurring), True Detective 2, Scorpion, Gang Related, Aquarius, Justified, Hawaii 5-0, Shameless, Scandal.

At ANTAEUS: The Seagull (LA Weekly Award nom., Best Supporting Actress), The Curse of Oedipus, The Liar, Cloud 9, Peace In Our Time, Macbeth and The Malcontent. Other recent theater: Fallen Angels (North Coast Rep); Reborning (The Fountain); Steel Magnolias, The Pursuit of Happiness, Love Loss and What I Wore (The Laguna Playhouse); Noises Off!  (The Rubicon - Broadway World Award nom., Best Featured Actress); I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Mary’s Wedding (The Colony); Trying (The Indian Wells Theatre); Sherlock's Last Case (Kinetic Theatre in Pittsburgh), as well as shows at The Production Company, The Getty Villa, The Skylight Theatre, The Zephyr, Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Television: Modern Family, Agent Carter, House, The United States of Tara, Medium, Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip, 1000 Ways To Die. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. JoannaStrapp.com

At ANTAEUS: Picnic, Peace in our Time, ClassicsFest readings. Other theatre credits include: A or B? (The Falcon); Pericles, Doctor’s Dilemma, Desire Under the Elms, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Great Expectations (A Noise Within); Caught (The Zephyr);Vera Laughed (NYSAF); Kicking Up Dust (world premiere), Journey of the Fifth Horse, La Ronde, Bus Stop, The Three Sisters (NYU); Television: Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Futurestates, Prime Suspect, Medium. Gentlemanly pastimes: Hardwood relief carving, wrestling with quantum mechanics, going to the cinema, reading books in an old-fashioned sitting room (never a library), and engaging in acts of general tomfoolery. His brother, Ed, is a brewer. Go to Mississippi, and buy his beer: sweetgumbrewing.com. Jason keeps his diplomas in his sock drawer, but here are the important words embossed upon them:  BA - Vanderbilt University. MFA - NYU Graduate Acting Program.

At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time. Other Notable Theater: Dream Catcher (The Fountain), The Graduate (LATW National Tour), Runaway Home (The Fountain), Hamlet (Oxford Shakespeare Festival), Camino Real (Boston Court), Circle Jerk (RedCat CNP), Jack Benny (Padua Playwrights/ Hollywood Fringe). TV: Silicon Valley CAST (recurring), 9-1-1 (recurring), What/If (recurring), I Think You Should Leave, The Orville, Station 19, Castle, Newsroom, Client List, Maron, Body of Proof, Happy Endings, and others. Writer and Producer of Tell Us Why You’re Here (TV series). Acting Instructor at the Michael Laskin Studio, and adjunct professor at LA Mission Community College. Brian loves theater, teaching, his wife Kimberly, and his pug Muttchops :)