The Boatman

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.

At ANTAEUS: Henry IV, Part One, King Lear, The Seagull. Other Theater: Shipwrecked! (Geffen Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (South Coast Repertory), Cyrano, The Homecoming, Waiting for Godot (The Matrix Theatre Company), Found Dog Ribbon Dance (Echo Theater Company). LADCC Awards for The Homecoming, The Birthday Party, Waiting for Godot. He received a Tony Nomination for his work in The Kentucky Cycle and two Emmy Nominations for his portrayal of President Charles Logan on FOX TV’s 24. He is luckily married to the Lovely Judie, he has two fairly grown children, Julia and Wilke and is the proud Grandfather of Wylder, son of his daughter-in-law Talia and Wilke.

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.

Previously with Antaeus, Leo has appeared in The Hothouse, Three Days of Rain, and Wedding Band. Other credits include: If I Forget at the Fountain, This Wonderful Life at Rogue Machine (playing every resident of Bedford Falls), Everything That Never Happened and The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll at Boston Court Pasadena, Mysterious Circumstances at the Geffen Playhouse, How to Write a New Book for the Bible at Berkeley Rep and Seattle Rep, A Perfect Wedding at the Kirk Douglas, Hamlet in Jessica Kubzansky’s acclaimed production, and performances at South Coast Rep, The Old Globe, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Actors Theater of Louisville, Pasadena Playhouse, Ahmanson Theatre, The Intiman, PICT, Playwright’s Arena, ACT’s The Strand, Alley Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons. Founding member, New York’s Elevator Repair Service. Awards include an Obie (Heather Woodbury’s Tale of 2Cities), and Stage Raw, LA Ovations, Ticketholder, Bay Area Critics, and LA Drama Critics Circle nominations and awards. He shares the 2023 LADCC Gordon Davidson Award and the Stage Raw “Queen of the Angels” awards for co-leadership of the SB1116 Coalition. TV/Film includes the lead in the award-winning indie feature film The Maestro, now streaming on Amazon Prime.

At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson’s, Mayor of the 85th Floor (LAB RESULTS), The Trojan Women and Henry VI, Part I (Classic Sundays Reading Series). Jazzlyn has appeared at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in Shakespeare&Chill (Bag O’ Bones Collective) and in her self-produced, written, directed one woman show Signed Iola. LA premieres: The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood (Third Culture Theatre, Palms Up Academy, and HBO). Jazzlyn holds a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has trained at Art of Acting Studio (LA), Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (UK), and Antaeus Academy.She is currently pursuing her MFA in Acting at Northwestern University in Chicago.

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: Three Days in the Country, As You Like It. Other Theater: Equus, Three Sisters, Twelfth Night, Accomplice, Pacific Overtures, Mother Tongue, Rashomon (East West Players); Bloodletting (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Playwrights Arena); Blood Wedding (Odyssey Theatre); Dogeaters (La Jolla Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre); Fish Head Soup (Berkeley Repertory Theatre/A Contemporary Theatre); The Wash (Studio Theatre, D.C.); Made in Bangkok (Mark Taper Forum); The Importance of Being Earnest (A Noise Within); Romeo and Juliet (Lodestone Theatre Ensemble); The White Death (Catch A Star Theatrical (CAST, Catch A Star Theatrical Players). TV/Film: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Assassination of Gianni Versace, Get Shorty, The West Wing, Beyond the Next Mountain, Melrose Place, Coach, Family Law and The Defenders.

Peter Mendoza was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He studied theater, stage combat, and dance at East Los Angeles College. At ANTAEUS: Belyaev in Three Days In The Country. Other Theater: Oscar in Sweat (Mark Taper Forum), Elliot in Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Oedipus in Oedipus El Rey (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Digital Stage), Henry Reyna in Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum, U/S); Hason in Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (The Rep. Theatre of St. Louis); Rafael in La Piedra Oscura; Don Carlos in Los Empeños de una Casa, Paco in Salon Mexico, Don Juan Tenorio in El Burlador de Sevilla (Bilingual Foundation of the Arts). TV: Perry Mason (HBO), From Scratch (Netflix), Shooter (USA), NCIS (CBS), Snowfall (FX), Casual (HULU), On My Block (Netflix). Film: Dead Bullet, Nathan's Kingdom, Parasites, Tecato, Hello to Never, Ana Maria in Novella Land.

At ANTAEUS (Directing): Cymbeline, The Tempest, The Hothouse; (Acting): The Zip Code Plays, Three Days in the Country, Hedda Gabler, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, The Liar, Patience, The Wood Demon. Other directing credits: Ensemble Theatre Company, A Noise Within, The Jewel Theatre, North Coast Repertory, Playwright’s Arena, PICT (Pittsburgh). Other acting credits: South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, The Ensemble Theatre Company, The Harold Clurman Theatre, PICT, Kinetic Theatre Company, ACT (Seattle), Shakespeare Festival LA, The Old Globe, The Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The American Conservatory Theatre. TV: Recurring roles on the new Frasier and Desperate Housewives, and guest stars on NCIS and many others. M.F.A., The American Conservatory Theatre. Recipient of the 2011 Lunt Fontanne Fellowship.