The Autumn Garden

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: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Autumn Garden and Mother Courage (LA Weekly Award). Other recent credits include: Good People at La Mirada, Three Views of the Same Object and Four Places (LADCC Award) at Rogue Machine Theater, The Savanna Disputation at the Colony Theatre and Kate in All My Sons (LADCC Award) at the Matrix Theater, Breadcrumbs at Theater 150 in Ojai, I Never Sang For My Father with The New American Theater Company.  She has also appeared in L.A. at the Mark Taper Forum, the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse, L.A. Theater Works, the Odyssey, and the Andak Stage Co.   Regionally, she has worked at South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe,San Diego Rep, Seattle Rep, La Jolla Rep, ACT, San Francisco Rep, The American Shakespeare Festival , Connecticut Rep, the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the McCarter, Princeton Rep to name a few.   She recently appeared on TV in Murder in the First and in the motion picture Wild.

Dawn Didawick is a founding member. Her varied career has taken her from New York to Europe in the classics and new works. Broadway: All My Sons (Tony Award Best Revival), Regional credits include Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Long Wharf Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Globe Theater in San Diego, Alabama Shakespeare Theater, ART, Seattle, St Louis, and South Coast Repertory Theaters.  Her roles ranged from Dee Dee in Marsha Norman’s The Laundromat to Juliet, Hermia, Titania, Gonzala in works of Shakespeare to Amy and Clara in The Show Off, both productions with one of her theater mentors, Jean Stapelton. She has appeared with her husband, Harry Groener, in many productions including Caught in the Net at The Coconut Grove and Regrets Only at The Cape Playhouse.  Her participation in the development of new works included stints at New Harmony, The Gathering and The Colony (both in Montana). She serves as an honorary board member of The Alpine Theater Project in Whitefish, Montana, and has served as a long time board member of The Antaeus Company. At ANTAEUS: The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Bear, Pera Palas, Autumn Garden, The Seagull, The Crucible, Uncle Vanya, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (multiple nominations and Stage Raw Award for Supporting Female Performance for “Big Mama” )and Three Days in the Country. Over the years she has participated in many Classic Fest readings and workshops, including her favorite as Amanda in Glass Menagerie. Representative film and T.V. credits: Erin Brockovich, Christmas with the Kranks, The Amateurs, I Am I, Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse, Hart of Dixie and Pretty Little Liars.

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.

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.

Jeffrey has been acting professionally for over 25 years.  He received his MFA in Acting at Southern Methodist University and began his career on the stage both in New York and regional theatres. He was seen in Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out at The Geffen as well as the premiere of Robert Schenkkan’s Lewis And Clark Reach The Euphrates at the Mark Taper Forum.  His other regional credits include The Old Globe, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and many others.  His New York credits include Shakespeare In The Park, The Public Theatre and CSC.  He has been a member of The Antaeus Company since the beginning and has participated in many productions and projects. Jeffrey’s film and television work has spanned his entire career including seasons on 24, Desperate Housewives, Body Of Proof, Rake, Killer Women and the films Tron, Home Of The Brave, Surfer Dude, Flicka and Flight 93 for A&E. Other work: HBO’s And The Band Played On and Citizen Cohn, as well as Arrow, Malibu Country, Cloud 9, Once And Again, Ask Me Again, Providence, Apollo 11, Quiz Show, Ruby, Working Girl, Holy Matrimony, Mighty Ducks 3, and many others.

At ANTAEUS: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Seagull, Autumn Garden, numerous readings and workshops. Best known for his eight seasons playing the father, Red Forman, on That ’70s Show.  Other TV credits include series regular roles in both season of Resurrection and Worst Week. Recurring Roles on 24 and Medium, as well as Guest Starring onHouse and numerous other shows.  Films include RoboCop, Dead Poets Society, To Die For, Citizen Ruth, Time To Kill, Deep Impact, Girl Interrupted, Cedar Rapids and appears in the recently released Hitchcock. Theater credits include South Coast Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage and Film, Los Angeles Actors Theatre, California Actors Theatre, and California Shakespeare Festival.

At ANTAEUS: Henry IV, Part One, The Crucible, Macbeth, The Seagull, The Autumn Garden, and ClassicsFest projects A Delicate Balance and Wrecks. The Old Globe: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Best Actor Award), Lincolnesque (Best Featured Actor Award), The Price, The Savannah Disputation. La Jolla: Glengarry Glen Ross (Nominated Best Featured Actor Award). Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Conversations with My Father, The Changing Room, Hamlet. Off Broadway: Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Regional Theater: Other Desert Cities, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, The Price, A Perfect Wedding, A Man for All Seasons, Antony & Cleopatra, A Christmas Carol. Film/TV: IMDB will tell all.

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: Eight Nights, The Autumn Garden. Other Theater: A Delicate Ship (The Road); Knife To The Heart, Dutch Masters (Rogue Machine); The Turn Of The Screw, Women and Wallace, Juno and the Paycock (Odyssey); Cock. Film: Useless Humans, The Bellmen, Sex Drive, Austin Powers Goldmember, Surviving Christmas, Feast, CBGB, The Hottest State. TV: Significant Mother, Strange Angel, The Big Bang Theory, Desperate Housewives, CSI Miami, Boston Legal, House, Breakout Kings, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, 90210.

At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Henry IV, Part One, King Lear, Autumn Garden, as well as, The Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep., Berkeley Rep., American Conservatory Theatre, Old Globe, Portland Centre Stage, Classic Stage Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Royal George, Laguna Playhouse, Theatre on the Square, Merrimack Rep., The Met, The Zephyr, The Evidence Room, Playmakers Rep., among others. And many TV & Film credits. He is currently recurring on NBC's Odyssey. 

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: Three Days in the Country, Top Girls, The Autumn Garden. Regional: King Charles III (Arizona Theatre Company), The Nether (Kirk Douglas Theatre), The Tall Girls (La Jolla Playhouse, DNA Series), The Jacksonian (Geffen Playhouse, U/S). Additional theater credits include: the one woman show All American Girl (InterACT Theatre Company), Jane Eyre (L.A. Theatre Works), The House Of Yes (Zephyr Theatre), Sidhe (The Road Theatre). TV/Film: Grey’s Anatomy, The Mentalist, Brothers & Sisters and Buddymoon.

Ms. McClain has worked in all aspects of the theater discipline, recurred and guest starred on TV and numerous films.  Two-time Ovation Award, LA Drama Critics Award, and NAACP Theatre Award nominee for Wedding Band and Raisin in the Sun. Has worked at such notable theaters as The Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Alliance Theatre, Alley Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Two River Theatre, Musical Theatre West, Syracuse Stage, McCarter Theatre, A.R.T., Spoleto Festival, New York Shakespeare Theatre, 2nd Stage, N.E.C., New Federal Theatre, Classic Theatre Company, Hudson Guild, Billie Holiday Theatre, Coconut Grove, A Noise Within.  Directorial credits include: The Play that Goes Wrong, Cabaret, Spring Awakening, Ain’t Misbehavin,’  Breath and Imagination, Flyin’ West, Spunk, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, The Colored Museum, For Colored Girls, Dancing Lessons, Intimate Apparel, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Fantasticks, and In the Continuum.

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country; Ah, Samolo; Autumn Garden; The Seagull; The Crucible; The Curse of Oedipus. She appeared as a child in featured roles in television, stage and film: Mrs. McThing (opposite Billie Burke), Mother Was a Bachelor, Summer and Smoke, The Innocents (Pasadena Playhouse), Lux Video Theatre, Matinee Theatre, Lassie, Father Knows Best, One Step Beyond, Wagon Train, Sugarfoot, Donna Reed Show, Perry Mason, Rawhide, Frank Sinatra Show, Escort West, Dr. Kildare, among many others.