Picnic

At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, Diana of Dobson's, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Picnic, Henry IV, Part One, The Curse of Oedipus, Top Girls, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It With You, The Autumn Garden, Tonight at 8:30, Mother Courage and Her Children, Proof of the Promise, Trial by Jury. She has appeared Off-Broadway, regionally at Milwaukee Repertory Theater and Pittsburgh Public Theater, and locally at the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, The Los Angeles Theatre Center and at numerous small theaters. Television: Sequestered, The Middle, Criminal Minds, Without a Trace, StarTrek TNG (recurring).  Movies: K-town Cowboys, Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-animation, Gods of Circumstance, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Bob Roberts, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, the cult classic Jailbird Rock, among others.

At ANTAEUS: Glass Menagerie, Native Son, Cloud 9, Picnic, The Liar, The Seagull, Tonight at 8:30, Mother Courage, Pera Palas, Trial By Jury; and directed The Importance of Being Earnest and You Can’t Take It With You. OTHER STAGE:  Pasadena Playhouse, Old Globe, Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Mirada, ETC Santa Barbara, Rubicon, MainStreet, Skylight, Blank, Odyssey, Boston Court, Playwrights’ Arena, and New York’s Public Theatre. FILM:  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Amsterdam, Alex and Emma, etc. TV: Recurring on NCIS: Origins, Platonic, Loot, Chicago Fire, Clipped; guest appearances include: Hacks, The Last Thing He Told Me, 9-1-1 Lone Star, Terminal List, S.W.A.T., American Horror Story, Jane the Virgin, etc.  2013 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Leading Actress for portrayal of Maria Callas in Master Class at International City Long Beach; and L.A. Drama Critics Circle Natalie Schafer Award and an Ovation for Solo Performance for her solo comedy Non-Vital Organs. Gigi coaches actors and is a career mentor. gigibermingham.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: 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.

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.

At ANTAEUS: Picnic, You Can’t Take It With You, The Autumn Garden, Tonight at 8:30, and many ClassicsFest readings and workshops. Regional: Berkeley Rep, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, Laguna Playhouse, The Public Theatre, Trinity Rep, Indiana Rep, Actors’ Theatre Of Louisville. Stages throughout Los Angeles including work with Evidence Room, Rogue Machine, East West Players, Boston Court, Actors’ Gang, Padua Playwrights, and Odyssey Theatre. Her work has garnered nominations and awards from LA Weekly, Backstage West, and LA Stage Alliance Ovations. Film and tv credits include Seinfeld, ER, The Marc Pease Experience and Love, Liza.

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.

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.

A native of Philadelphia, Jill holds a BA in English & Communication from the University of Pennsylvania. Selected credits include: Cousin Bette andCabaret Noel (ANTAEUS), A Christmas Carol (South Coast Repertory), As You Like It: The Musical (Classical Theatre Lab), Henry IV, Part I and The Night of the Iguana (A Noise Within). Jill occasionally appears on TV, movie and computer screens (you may remember her giving birth to triplets on The Mindy Project). She enjoys good TV, a good cheesesteak, and most importantly, good grammar and spelling. Jill also narrates audiobooks, but her favorite gig is reading bedtime stories to her daughter.

Janellen is well-known to Los Angeles theater audiences. She most recently appeared in Native Gardens at Coachella Valley Rep. Other credits: Maria Vasilyevna Voynitskaya in Uncle Vanya at New American Theatre. And she appeared in the original cast of its precursor, The Wood Demon, at The Mark Taper Forum, where she also appeared in A Flaw in the Ointment at Taper Too. Janellen has also performed at The Old Globe. In L.A. at: L.A. Theatreworks, East/West Players, the Getty Villa, The Odyssey, The Fountain Theatre, Sacred Fools,The Evidence Room, 24th Street Theatre, and in several productions with The Antaeus Company of which she is a founding member. She has appeared on TV in shows such as Sleeper Cell, Roseanne, Strong Medicine and in independent films. She has also appeared at regional theaters from Ohio, to New York, to Key West. Janellen is also a jazz vocalist and as a voice over actor, she can be heard in numerous video games, animation, radio and T.V commercials, and dubs English into international television films and series. She helped develop and lead Antaeus’ Education Outreach program and has taught for Antaeus Academy.

At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Picnic, Macbeth, The Curse of Oedipus, Tonight at 8:30 & former Co-Artistic Director. Other theatre: Ah! Wilderness (A Noise Within), Dangerous Corner (Matrix Theatre), Juno & the Paycock (Odyssey Theatre), Ladyhouse Blues (Andak), Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (Tiffany Theatre), The Cavalcaders (Florida Stage), The Beat Generation (Merrimack Rep). TV/Film: South of Nowhere, Star Trek:Deep Space Nine, For the People, The Riches, The Fosters, Leverage, Monk, Judging Amy, Law & Order LA, Patty Hearst, In the Mood, The Longshadow, Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse, I Am I.

At ANTAEUS: Picnic. Other Theaters: Dry Land (The Kirk Douglas & The Echo Theater Company), The Wolves (The Echo Theater Company), Apocalypse Play (Moving Arts), Nice Things (Rogue Machine), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Center LA), Four Clowns Presents Hamlet, That Beautiful Laugh, Noah & Jonah (Four Clowns). TV/Film: House of Lies, Locating Silver Lake, Here I Am, Can You Take My Picture, Landings. Training: BFA, USC. @condogg.

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: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Picnic. Other Theater Credits: The Glass Menagerie (Sierra Madre Playhouse), Henry V and As You Like It (Utah Shakespeare Festival). Most recently seen as Davey on FOX’s Making History and James Bosworth on AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire. BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

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.

Jackie graduated Chapman University in 2011 with a degree in Theatre Performance. Past theatre credits include Sex: aka Wieners and Boobs (iO West), Women (Theatre Asylum), and a moderately entertaining one-woman show she never ended up naming (Little Modern). She’s honored to be making her debut as a guest artist with Antaeus.

Sarah is thrilled to be making her debut on the Antaeus stage with Picnic. Born in Hawaii, she earned her BA in Theatre Arts at Westmont College in Santa Barbara and an MFA in Acting at UCSD. Recent theatre credits include: Blood and Gifts (La Jolla Playhouse) and the LA premiere of Heathers: The Musical (Hudson Theatre). Film/TV: Road Hard, Cristela, Anger Management. Thank you to her reps, friends and family for all of their incredible support.

Jordan is ecstatic to be making her stage debut with Antaeus. Film credits: Dirty Beautiful, I Remember You, Casual Encounters, and Cavemen. Television: True Blood, True Jackson VP, and The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

Maureen is thrilled to be making her professional stage debut with Antaeus, having assistant directed Top Girls and Henry IV - Part One here previously. She holds a BA in Cinematic Arts and History from the University of Southern California, as well as a Master’s in British History from the University of Oxford. Selected credits include: The Merchant of Venice (Portia), House of Blue Leaves (Bunny Flingus), Urinetown (Josephine Strong), The Furies, and The Bearded Girl. She has also directed productions of The Importance of Being Earnest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at USC and Oxford respectively. Special thanks to Cameron for this incredible opportunity and just being an amazing human being; Rob Nagle for confidence, guidance, and inspired teaching; Ann, Kristin, and the ADs for always making Antaeus such a warm, welcoming place; and her brilliant family, especially her mom, for unflagging support, laughter, and love.

At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, Picnic, ClassicsFest readings of: Holiday, Moby Dick. Other Theater: If All The Sky Were Paper (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Kennedy Center, Lobero Theatre) Film: Long Lost, All The Grey, Basic Training. He is also a member of the Echo Theater Company. Training: BFA & BA, Chapman University

Jake is excited to have Picnic as his first stage experience in Los Angeles. Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, Jake first learned about acting through numerous shows at Columbus Children’s Theatre. He moved to California after high school and has spent the last 6 years appearing in various television shows, including: The Thundermans, Psych, Suburgatory, NCIS: LA, Parenthood, iCarly, Greek, True Jackson VP, Gang Related and The Forgotten. Jake has endless gratitude for his acting coaches Michael Woolson and Larry Moss, his amazing representatives at LB Talent and Discover Management, and his wonderfully supportive family.

Ben is a Philadelphia native who recently moved out to Los Angeles after graduating from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City. He recently appeared as Yasha in The Cherry Orchard and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night at The City Shakespeare Company in Santa Monica. Ben thanks his family and friends for all their love and support.

At Antaeus: The Little Foxes, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Picnic, Top Girls. Other theatres: It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street (Pasadena Playhouse); The City of Conversation (Ensemble Theatre Company); Bled for the Household Truth, The Super Variety Match Bonus Round, Cock (Rogue Machine); All My Sons (Matrix Theatre); Trying, On Golden Pond Grace & Glorie (The Colony Theatre); I Never Sang for My Father (New American Theatre); I Capture the Castle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). www.cameron-watson.com