Tea Party
Antaeus Black Box
Written by: Sean Abley
Directed by: Laura Stribling
Frank, a married heterosexual crossdresser in his late 30s living in Montana, discovers Miss Olivia’s Finishing School for Girls, a club for fellow recreational crossdressers. Finally able to share his secret with another like-minded man, Frank’s newfound freedom threatens his marriage and his relationship with his best friend.
Cast
John Bobek*
FRANK
At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson's, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Three Days In The Country, As You Like It, The Hothouse, ClassicsFest: Ah! Wilderness and The Inland Sea. Other Theater: Skullduggery: The Musical Prequel to Hamlet, DISASTEROID! (Sacred Fools Theater Company); Stupid F**king Bird (Boston Court Pasadena, U/S); Mental: The Musical (Edgemar Center for the Arts). Television: A Series of Unfortunate Events, American Crime, Longmire, Battle Creek, The West Wing, Rizzoli & Isles, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, Happy Endings, Castle. Film: When a Stranger Calls, Stomping Ground, Freshwater, Recoil. Original music available under John Bobek on iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Spotify, BandCamp. B.A. Theatre Arts, Marquette University. Represented by The Glick Agency. johnbobek.com or imdb.me/johnbobek
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Abigail Marks*
GAYLE
At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson's, Cloud 9 (Stage Raw Nomination – Best Supporting Actress, 8 LADCC Awards), Top Girls (Ovation nomination – Best Supporting Actress, Backstage and Sage awards – Best Supporting Actress), As You Like It. Other Theater: Sense and Sensibility (South Coast Rep.), Prelude to a Kiss (Craig Lucas, SCR), Losing My Religion (Pasadena Playhouse), Hamlet, Women Beware Women (The Shakespeare Theatre), Three Sisters (Studio Theatre), I Love Lucy: a funny thing happened on the way to the sitcom (L.A. Theatre Works, World Premiere), Eurydice, The Beaux Stratagem, A Christmas Carol, Uncle Vanya, Tartuffe, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Long Day’s Journey into Night (A Noise Within), A Bright Room Called Day (Coeurage), The Visit, The Tempest (Oval), South of Delancey (Fremont Centre), Motherland (Inkwell). Selected FILM/TV: Bordertown (Netflix), Glee (Fox), The Dream (Flying Box – Lulu Wang, Bruce Dern), People at a Party (BBC), commercial campaigns for Barclay’s Bank and “We Card” (Dir. Tony Scott) MFA: The Academy for Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. BA: The George Washington University. abigailmarks.com
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Michael McShane*
OLIVER
Mike McShane was one of the regular cast members of Whose Line is it Anyway and has performed and taught improvisation for Pixar, Savannah College of Art and Design, and many workshops in the United Kingdom. He is a semi-regular with The Comedy Store Players in London, and has performed on Broadway and the West End in London in La Cage Aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors, The Pocket Dream and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, the world premiere of The Tailor Made Man and, most recently, the hit production of Assassins on the West End.
He was a company member of The American Conservatory Theatre and The California Shakespeare Festival, and The Antaeus Company, where he has been in their acclaimed productions of Cousin Bette and the The Seagull. He has been seen on television in Seinfeld, ER, Malcolm in the Middle and The Drew Carey Show, as well as many other sitcoms and episodics in the U.S. In the U.K. He has guest starred as the evil Julius Grayle in Doctor Who and was a guest star in the pilot of Bluestone 4-2, and will be seen in FX TV’s Wayward Pines.
In film, he portrayed Friar Tuck in Robin Hood; as Professor Keenbean in Richie Rich ; as Harold Vilmes in Drop Dead Gorgeous; Office Space, and many other films.
You can hear Mikes’ voice in A Bug’s Life, Vampire Hunter D, Spawn- The TV series, King of the Hill and many other animated films.
He is also a member of Impro Theatre, where he devised Shakov, using a single suggestion with Shakespeare and Chekov as a starting point.
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Luis Kelly-Duarte
JUSTIN
At ANTAEUS : As You Like It. Theater credits include: A Streetcar Named Desire (Boston Court) Handball (Urban Theatre Movement & NYC Summer Stage), Romeo and Juliet (African American Shakespeare Company). Recent TV/Film: Archenemy, Shameless, Animal Kingdom, Ripper. Luis is a member of Urban Theatre Movement and Ensemble Studio Theatre and is also a member of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. Follow @authenticLKD
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