The Abuelas

AT ANTAEUS: Cloud 9. Other theaters: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep, Kansas City Rep, Theatreworks, A Noise Within, Theatricum Botanicum. Film includes: Windows On The World, Cheerleader Murders, Love On The Vines. TV includes: Animal Kingdom, The Rookie, SEAL Team, NCIS: New Orleans, The Good Doctor, The Red Road and others. Instagram: @iamdaviddesantos

At Antaeus: The Cripple of Inishmaan, King Lear, Pera Palas. Other Theatres: 12 Angry Men (Laguna Playhouse), iWitness (Mark Taper Forum), Mother Courage (Theatre @ Boston Court), Clutter (The Colony Theatre), Boise USA (Matrix Theatre), The Men from the Boys (Fountain Theatre), A Clockwork Orange (Greenway Court Theatre) TV/Film: DC’s Titans, Castle, The Rookie, Take Two, MacGyver, Far Cry 5, Legion, Mad Men, Army Wives, General Hospital, Cold Case, Hollywoodland,  Training: BA, Northern Arizona University;  MFA, Carnegie-Mellon University and The Moscow Art Theatre. Member: AEA, The Actors Studio.

At ANTAEUS: The Abuelas. Other Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Teatro Principe Gran Via, Madrid), Shrek The Musical (Teatro Maipo, Buenos Aires), Billy The Kid (Teatro Stella Maris, Buenos Aires), The Three Musketeers (Teatro Armenia, Buenos Aires), Carmen, Aida, Turandot (L’Arena di Verona, Italy), Intruders (Teatro La Tertulia, Buenos Aires) Film: Limitless, I Will Wait For You, Coyote Lake, Stolen Tango, 27. Training: NYU Tisch School of the Arts, The William Esper Studio. @luisinaquar

At ANTAEUS: The Abuelas. Denise was Artistic Director of LADiversified and is currently Associate Artistic Director of Bilingual Foundation of the Arts. She’s appeared extensively on stage as an actress, recently in The Madres at Skylight Theatre and in Chicago at the Victory Theatre. Other Theater: world premieres of Juana La Loca, June in a Box, Heart Song, Ten Tiny Love Stories, Los Muertos, Wild in Wichita, Dark; her adaptations of House of Bernarda Alba, The Three Sisters, Blood Wedding. She’s a director in Los Angeles; favorites include Fefu and Her Friends, Blade of Jealousy, No Exit, Wild in Wichita, Ghost of Lote Bravo, Marisol, Anna in the Tropics, Cristo Vive. TV/Film: Snowfall, Coco, A Place Among the Dead, Noriega, God’s Favorite, Death in Granada. She’s a recording Voice Artist and her film, Dentro De La Casa De Bernarda Alba, was nominated by the Imagen Award Foundation as Best Short.

At ANTAEUS: The Abuelas. Broadway: The Wrong Way Lightbulb, Yerma. Off Broadway: House of Fools, The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife, A Rose With Two Aromas, The Passion of Antigona Perez, The Trojan Women, Uncle Vanya, See How They Run, The Balcony. Stock and Repertory: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Othello, Rattle of a Simple Man, The Fanlights, A View from the Bridge, A Shot in the Dark, Tamara (LA and London), Our Daily Bitterness, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Young Lady from Tacna. Film: East Side Story, Unspeakable, The Legacy, Price of Glory, What’s Love Got To Do With It, Driven, Walk Proud, Incredible Shrinking Woman, A Single Light, The 15th Face of the Moon. TV: Law and Order: The Menendez Murders, Jane the Virgin, Reno 911, Inconceivable, Six Feet Under, Gilmore Girls, Boomtown, The Pretender, Solo en America, Sunset Beach, Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue, MacGyver, Hooperman, Hill St. Blues, The Devlin Connection, Chico and the Man, Sesame St. Maricela.

At ANTAEUS: The Abuelas. 2019 CBS Diversity Showcase (CBS); An Odyssey (2018 Hollywood Fringe); Untitled Communion (Critical Mass Performance Group @ REDCAT); Hamlet (Chamber Shakespeare); Romeo and Juliet (Chamber Shakespeare); Gruesome Playground Injuries (The Garage Theatre); Fleabag (Theatre Threshold, CSULB). Film: Fred Needs a Friend (2 Best Actress in Short Film Awards), About Pie, Chasing the White Rabbit, We Made Our Bed, Piñata. Training: B.A., CSULB. carolinamontenegro.net @carolinasayshello

Stephanie began writing plays while working for a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer in Chicago. She has since won multiple awards herself including the Francesca Primus Prize (American Theatre Critics Association,) the Generations Prize (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company,) the Blue Ink Award (American Blues Theater) and World's Best Mom (self-appointed.) She specializes in nuanced and complex stories, dark comedy, personalization of the political and historical drama. Her plays include The Madres, The Abuelas, Friends With Guns, The Ordeal of Water, The Art of Disappearing, Sophia Hayden Deserves Better and more. Her work has been produced across the U.S. and abroad in Mexico, India, Australia and South Africa. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Antaeus Playwrights Lab and Honor Roll! - an advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over forty whose aim is to significantly increase inclusion and representation on stage and in the theatrical canon. In addition to writing plays, she is currently adapting Friends with Guns as a feature, continuing to develop her television pilots, writing a novel that is a mashup of the spy and chick lit genres while raising two spirited boys. Stephaniealisonwalker.com

Born in New York City, Ms. Chapman is a director, actor, educator. She is the Associate Artistic Director of Ebony Repertory Theatre. Her directing credits include: The Gospel at Colonus (Ebony Repertory Theatre: 14 Ovation Nominations including Best Play & Best Play Direction, NAACP Theatre Awards 2016 Best Production Winner), Mockingbird, As it is in Heaven, The Ninth Wave, Steel Magnolias (Actors Co-op Theatre Company: Best Director Award), The Dutchman, A Summer Memory and a host of others. Film: The award-winning short films Memorial Street, Elijah’s Song and Why?. As an actress her television, film and stage credits include: NCIS, SMILF, Shameless, Glee, Dexter, 24, Six Feet Under, Short Cuts, The Lower Depths, Blood Wedding. She is currently the Center Theatre Group Program Advisor/Coaching Artist for August Wilson National Monologue Competition. A professor of various universities (Pepperdine, Chapman), she is currently teaching Film Acting at Azusa Pacific University. Ms. Chapman is a graduate of Yale School of Drama/M.F.A and alumna of The American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women. Andi is also a selected participant of the prestigious Lincoln Center Directors Lab.