The Cripple of Inishmaan

Written by: Martin McDonagh
Directed by: Steven Robman
Recommended for Ages 16+

Dreams are in short supply on Inishmaan, especially for Billy Claven. So when a Hollywood filmmaker arrives on the neighboring island to make a movie, Billy goes after a part in the film, hoping to escape from the cruelty and bleakness of his life in master storyteller Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic Irish yarn.



PRODUCTION TEAM

Director: Steven Robman
Scenic Designer: John Iacovelli
Co-Lighting & Co-Projection Designers: Kaitlyn Pietras & Jason H. Thompson
Costume Designer: Garry Lennon
Sound Designer: Jeff Gardner
Props Designer: Erin Walley
Dialect Coach: Lauren Lovett
Fight Choreography: Bo Foxworth
Scenic Artist: Orlando de La Paz
Production Stage Manager: Jessaica Shields
Assistant Stage Manager: Jessica Osorio
Assistant Director: Samantha Kofford

Cast

Julia Fletcher has been a theater professional for more than 35 years, working in new play development, as an adapter of the works of Shakespeare, as a director, an Equity stage manager, and a master teacher. She trained and worked as an actor with the American Conservatory Theatre, and has performed with the Old Globe, the Intiman, San Jose Rep, ACT/Seattle, Antaeus, P.C.P.A., and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, among others. She was also the Founding Artistic Director of the Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles.
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At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, Diana of Dobson's, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Picnic, Henry IV, Part One, The Curse of OedipusTop GirlsThe CrucibleYou Can’t Take It With YouThe Autumn GardenTonight at 8:30Mother 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: SequesteredThe Middle, Criminal Minds, Without a Trace, StarTrek TNG (recurring).  Movies: K-town CowboysNight 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.
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John Allee*

DOCTOR MCSHARRY
John Allee is an Ovation Award nominee and ensemble member of Antaeus, where he has appeared in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Cloud 9, Uncle Vanya, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It with You, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, and more. Other Stage Highlights: The Mystery of Irma Vep, A Man for All Seasons, The Man Who Came to Dinner, 33 Variations (Actors Co-op); Much Ado About Nothing (Kingsmen Shakespeare Co); Little Shop of Horrors (Arizona Theatre Company); Assassins (Los Angeles Theatre Center); Alone Together (Pasadena Playhouse); A Midsummer Night's Dream (LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera); One Thousand Cranes (Mark Taper Forum); and Chaplin (Pre-Broadway). On TV, he played Pasha on the Starz series Flesh and Bone. Podcast audiences can hear him on Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene. John is also an award-winning singer-songwriter and recording artist. His latest album is Past Imperfect. Johnallee.com
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John Bobek*

BABBYBOBBY
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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At ANTAEUS: Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionAutumn 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.
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At Antaeus: The Cripple of Inishmaan, King LearPera 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 TitansCastleThe Rookie, Take TwoMacGyverFar Cry 5Legion, Mad MenArmy WivesGeneral Hospital, Cold Case, Hollywoodland,  Training: BA, Northern Arizona University;  MFA, Carnegie-Mellon University and The Moscow Art Theatre. Member: AEA, The Actors Studio.
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Matthew is honored to be a member of Antaeus Theatre Company. Big thanks to everyone here for being such terrific Mentors! At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Native Son and several ClassicFests. Other Theater includes: District Merchants, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and the NewSCRipts workshop of Origin Story (South Coast Repertory); Native Son (Kirk Douglas Theatre); Arsenic and Old Lace (La Mirada Theatre); The City of Conversation, Women In Jeopardy, Good People (Ensemble Theatre Company); A Moon for the Misbegotten (Rubicon Theatre); Stupid F*cking Bird, Bad Jews (Stage West); Spinning Into Butter, Rabbit Hole (Actor’s Co-op); Friends Like These (NY International Fringe Festival). Readings/Workshops include: Laguna Playhouse, Wallis Annenberg and Pasadena Playhouse. TV: Westworld. Also interested in writing, his first play Granite was work-shopped at Joan Scheckel’s Collective Loft. For Dad always.
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At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, As You Like It, Macbeth. World Premieres: Kingdom City, A Lonely Boy’s Guide to Survival… (La Jolla Playhouse). Other credits include The Lion in Winter (Laguna Playhouse); Ah! Wilderness (A Noise Within); 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Palos Verdes Performing Arts); Carrie the Musical (La Mirada Theater); Hamlet the Rock Musical (El Portal Theater); Cabaret (Celebration Theater). Ian trained a the University of Southern California and the British American Drama Academy.
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Philip Proctor

DOCTOR MCSHARRY
Phil Proctor is a 15-year member of Antaeus and a 50-year member of the thrice-Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre, recognized as one of the “Thirty Greatest Acts of All Time” with a recording in the Library of Congress. He’s appeared on-and-off Broadway, on street corners in the USSR with the Yale Russian Chorus, in many local and regional theatres, on radio, and in scores of films, video games and TV shows. He’s won Theatre World, LA Weekly, LA Free Press and Drama Critics’ awards, and his voice credits include Toy StorySpirited Away, Monsters, Inc., Seahorse Bob in Finding Nemo, the Drunken French Monkey in Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Vidic in Assassin’s Creed, and Howard DeVille in the Emmy-winning Rugrats, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is currently featured in the independent films Window of OpportunityCharity and The Love Addict and tours in a one-man reading of Don Quixote with the L.A. Guitar Quartet.
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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.
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Stephen Caffrey

JOHNNYPATEENMIKE
At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Henry IV, Part One, King LearAutumn 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
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JD Cullum*

JOHNNYPATEENMIKE
At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, As You Like It, Hedda Gabler, Cloud 9. Other Theater: Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse. Recent appearances include Tolstoy in Suffolk (Studio C Artists), For Piano and Harpo (Garry Marshall Theater), All the Way (South Coast Repertory). TV: The Orville, Aquarius, Bones.
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At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan. Other Theater credits include: Stupid F**king Bird (The Garage Theatre), All New People (Actor’s Workout Studio), and various staged readings at Skylight Theatre. Web Series: Parker and The Crew (Disney), Catching a Break. Upcoming Films: Misdirection and Threshold. Training: Studied Theatre at USC and The British American Drama Academy.
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 At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theater: The Girl and the Enchanted Forest (Company of Angels). TV/Film: Coach Stage Stage Coach, DADDA,  Parasites. Training: Cal State LA, ELAC.
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 At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Seagull, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, The Thin Man. Los Angeles: Twelfth Night, Juliet and Her Romeo (Vanguard Rep); Shakespeare's King Phycus (The Flynnsmen). Regional: The Steward of Christendom (Mark Taper Forum); Ten Chimneys (Artists Repertory Theatre). New York: The Other Other Woman, The Merry Widows of Windsor, The Seduction of Adonis, Cupid and Psyche, The Comedy of Heirors (Turn to Flesh Productions); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Red Monkey Theater Group), Ira (Shrunken Shakespeare Company). TV: Zoey 101, iCarly, Sam & Cat. Proud member of Actors Equity Association and Antaeus.
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Emily graduated from USC's School of Dramatic Arts and received an MA in Classical Acting from LAMDA. At Anteaus: The Cripple of Inishmaan. Other Theatre: Trying (North Coast Repertory Theatre), The 39 Steps (Malibu Playhouse), A Tale of Two Cities (A Noise Within), Ah, Wilderness! (A Noise Within), Stupid F*cking Bird (Boston Court Pasadena). Television credits include guest stars on L.A.'s Finest, Criminal Minds, Future Man, Castle, Fameless. Feature film credits include Shook, Jane & Emma, The House On Pine Street (winner of 3 Best Actress Awards), and Snapshots (winner of 4 Best Actress Awards).
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At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan. Broadway credits include: Sweeney Todd (original cast), and Candide (original cast revival). Off Broadway: Nunsense, Marcy in The Galaxy. Kennedy Center: Showboat. Regional: Steward of Christendom (The Taper) Fallen Angels (Pasadena Playhouse), The Women (The Old Globe), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Juno and the Paycock, Deathtrap, First Lady Suite. National Tour: Godspell, South Pacific. Film: Fantastic Four (2015), Yes Man, The Breakup, In Her Shoes, xXx, My Best Friend’s Wedding. Television: Mom, American Horror Story: Asylum, The Middle, Anger Management, Castle, Cold Case, The West Wing, The Mentalist, Desperate Housewives, Friends.
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Production Team

Steven Robman

Director
*member, Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule

“A FECKIN’ FINE PRODUCTION!… stellar… smart, witty and brutal…” 

Broadway World

“A MUST-SEE…darkly comic…brilliantly directed…will delight and entertain audiences…

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“WOW!… one supremely satisfying, (and pardon my Irish) fecking entertaining evening of L.A. theater.” 

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“A BRILLIANT REVIVAL OF AN EXQUISITE PLAY… [a] superb cast… do not miss.”

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