The Crucible

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.

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

At ANTAEUS: Macbeth (Witch One); The Crucible (Rebecca Nurse). Guthrie Theater: Twelve seasons as actress, voice and movement director, including Furies (Chorus Leader) in Tyrone Guthrie’s House of Atreus. Other theater: Boston Court, REDCAT, South Coast Rep, Getty Villa’s Outdoor Theater in the inaugural production Hippolytos; Hecuba in Cavander’s The Greeks at The Back Alley Theater; plus many roles with LAWSC (Ovation Award). Television: includes series regular and Guest Star in premier TV shows. Films Include: Wes Craven’s Newest Nightmare and Crazy as Hell. Awards include: NAACP Theatre Award, Best Female Performance for Lear in the CNP production of King Lear; First AEA/AFTRA/SAG Diversity Honor Award; Watts Village Theater Company’s 2008 “Blazing the Trail Award”; Playwrights’ Arena, Outstanding Contribution to the Los Angeles.

At ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Top Girls, Uncle Vanya, Diana of Dobsons, The Winter’s Tale. Other theatres (select): La Mirada Theatre, L.A.T.W., EST/LA, New Canon Theatre Company (Monterey), Book-It Rep (Seattle), Harlequin Productions (Olympia), MainStreet Theatre, Will Geer Theatricum, and the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, where Shannon recently performed in the American premiere of the new musical Bluebeard’s Castle. Film credits include The Dangle (Best Short at the CA International Film Festival), The Unknown, and the upcoming shorts Seasons and When You Sleep. As a writer, Shannon has made the Top 50 List in the Nicholl Screenwriting Competition and been a finalist for fellowships from Stowe Story Labs, among others. Thanks to years spent living an alternate life at sea, Shannon holds a Merchant Marine license from the U.S. Coast Guard. Education: LAMDA and Princeton University.

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.

At ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Macbeth, Our American Hamlet (ClassicsFest 2013). Originally from Munich, Germany – Daniel is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He most recently appeared in the West Coast Premiere of Mac Rogers’ Viral at the Bootleg Theater (Dir. Darin Anthony) Other theatre credits include: Down in Front (World Premiere at Hollywood Fringe), Chris Keller in All My Sons, The Waiting Room (Dir. Art Manke) His film debut came this past Fall, in the David Ayer directed World War Two Drama Fury, starring Brad Pitt.

AT ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Classicsfest. Other Theatre: Hole in the Sky (Circle X); Completeness (VS Theatre); Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, The Velveteen Rabbit (South Coast Repertory); Two Gentlemen of Verona (PA Shakespeare); Romeo and Juliet (Lantern Theatre); The Edge of Our Bodies (Theatre Exile); Thrones! The Musical (Baby Wants Candy at Edinburgh Fringe Festival). TV/Film: Scandal, V/H/S, Serious Music, The UCB Show, Big Time Rush, Ghost Story Club, College Humor. The Groundlings Training Program and Upright Citizens Brigade Maude Alum. Training: B.A., Temple University; M.F.A., University of California, Irvine. Nicole has written for: Comedy Central, UCB, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. www.nicoleerb.com

At ANTAEUS: Top Girls, The Crucible, Nina Variations, Celebration, Cousin Bette, Arcadia, The After Dinner Joke, The Women, Camino Real, and other various readings and workshops. Other Theatre: Arcadia (Sierra Madre Playhouse), Uncle Vanya, Rhinoceros, Freud Scenario, Antigone, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Steel Magnolias.  Films include Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse,The Selling, Stik Men, Brain Dead and Fear Ever After. She is currently starring in the gritty period Western web series Red Bird. Proud AEA & SAG-AFTRA member.

At ANTAEUS: The Hothouse, Peace in Our Time, The Crucible, As You Like It, Macbeth. Other Los Angeles Theater: The Engine Of Our Ruin, The Shoplifters (Victory Theatre), Baby Doll (The Fountain), The Magic Bullet Theory (Sacred Fools), Caribou Crossing, Memory of Water, The Great Great Grandson of Jedediah Kohler (Circle West), Heralds (Theater Tribe), The Andersonville Trial (All Saints in Pasadena), Briar Patch (Ventura Court Theatre), Breast Men (M.E.T. One Act Festival). Steve started in New York in 1980, where he appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. He has appeared in some TV shows, a few movies and several TV commercials. He is an expert in Southern Californian edible landscaping and pomology.

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.

Kate was most recently in the world premiere of Sheila Callaghan’s award-winning play, Everything You Touch, at Theatre @ Boston Court. Other LA Theatre credits include The Liar, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It With You (Antaeus Theatre Company), I’ll Be Back Before Midnight (The Colony Theatre), The Bungler (A Noise Within), and A Stubborn Woman (Los Angeles Theatre Center). Kate received a BFA in Acting from the School of Dramatic Arts at USC. TV/Film credits include The Bulbar Method; pilot, Death and Cremation, Armynel, Lost Tapes: Bear Lake Monster.

Ann Noble is a Chicago Native with over twenty-five years of professional experience in the theatre as an actor, playwright, director and educator.  In addition to teaching at Antaeus, she currently teaches at Berg Studios (Technique I & II) as well as at the Hyperion Arts Center/Studio A Dance (Scene Study).  As a director, her recent credits include Smoke with LifeChild Productions and Moonshine Mamas with Two Heads Are Better Productions.  With Antaeus, she recently directed two of the Classic Sunday Readings of Shaw’s St. Joan and Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, which she is slated to co-direct in its full production this winter with Armin Shimerman.  As an actor, her credits with Antaeus are Hedda Gabler, The Crucible, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time, The Liar and The Malcontent.  Her other theatre acting credits include: BLISS, or Emily Post is Dead  with Moving Arts; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, and Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story of Barack Obama’s Mother all with LA’s LGBT Center; Other Desert Cities with ICT of Long Beach; American Dead with Rogue Machine; Orange Flower Water with the Victory; Belfry with Malibu Playhouse; An Ideal Husband with Sierra Madre Playhouse; The Fall To Earth, Bedroom Farce and London’s Scars with the Odyssey; Betrayal with ETC of Santa Barbara; Sidhe, And Neither Have I Wings To Fly, The Friendly Hour, Big Death & Little Death, Shove and Bunbury all with the Road; and over six productions with South Coast Rep.  She also teaches acting and writing to incarcerated/at risk youth at several schools/institutions around LA including Homeboy Industries, and also works as a theatre director/instructor for youth at LA’s LGBT Center and LA’s Museum of the Holocaust.  She is the current Casting Associate for Antaeus, and, also, will be directing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar for Warriors For Peace this fall.

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 Story, Spirited 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 Opportunity, Charity and The Love Addict and tours in a one-man reading of Don Quixote with the L.A. Guitar Quartet.

Regional theatre credits include: Arena Stage (Galileo, Our Town, and The Matchmaker), Guthrie Theater (Candida), Mark Taper II (Sahara-new works fest.), Pasadena Playhouse (Camping with Henry and Tom), The Geffen (Warmusic), The Walnut St Theater (The Price), and The Lucille Lortel and Playwright’s Horizon (Once Upon a Time There Was a Family) in New York and most recently at Sierra Madre Playhouse (A Walk in the Woods). At ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30 and The Wedding Band. On TV he has re-occurring roles on such shows as True Blood, The Closer, Touch, Medium, The Practice, and guest starred on such shows as Fringe, Criminal Minds, Revenge, Mentalist, and Major Crimes (full list on IMDB.com). He has done 45 films including such movies as The Devil Inside, The Hulk, Nutty Professor, Bowfinger and Straight Outta Compton (full list on IMDB.com). John has taught in the juvenile prison system of Los Angeles county for the past 12 years and is head of education outreach of Antaeus where he is one of the creators and the lead teacher of The Odyssey Artist’s Workshop, a Shakespeare and dramatic writing program for the incarcerated and underserved young people of Los Angeles.

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 Crucible, Cabaret Noel, Celebration and Lysistrata. Other theatrical credits include The Capulets and the Montagues (Andak Stage Company); Joe Calarco’s Shakespeare’s R & J (Folger Shakespeare Theatre); The Weir (Round House Theatre); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To the Forum, Grand Hotel, Mack and Mabel, 110 In the Shade, Sweeney Todd, the World Premieres of Michael John La Chiusa’s The Highest Yellow and Kander & Ebb’s Over & Over (The Signature Theatre); Company (The Huntington Theatre Company); iGhost (The Lyric Theatre), The Door (Sierra Madre Playhouse); Snow White – An Enchanting New Musical (Disneyland’s Fantasyland Theatre) as well as productions of She Loves Me, State Fair, West Side Story, Into the Woods, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell, Children of Eden, Cabaret, Les Miserables, Parade, The Secret Garden, Big River, Little Shop of Horrors, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Fantasticks, Man of La Mancha, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tuck Everlasting, The Velveteen Rabbit and the Alexander series of musicals by Judith Viorst. There are a few Film and TV credits rolling around in there somewhere. R. Scott received his BFA in acting from Boston University School for the Arts and currently works as a Special Effects Designer for Walt Disney Imagineering. He is a proud member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA.

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.

(Co-Director of Measure for Measure, The Crucible, and Shakespeare teacher at Antaeus). He is a highly regarded actor and is best known to television audiences as Quark, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He portrayed Leo Tolstoy in Discord for both the Noho Arts Theater and the Geffen Theater. Broadway: Threepenny Opera; St. Joan; I Remember Mama, and Broadway.  Selected Regional Theater: King Lear (Fool), Road to Mecca (Marius),The Seafarer (Blind Irishman -San Diego Critics Circle Award for Best Actor: San Diego Repertory); Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor (The Old Globe); Henry V (American Shakespeare Festival); Hoagy, Bix, Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhouse (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Threepenny Opera, Camille, Wild Oats (Guthrie Theatre).  Selected LA Theater – Birthday Party (LA Drama Critics Circle nomination – Lead Performance: The Matrix Theatre); Hamlet, As You Like It (Theatricum Botanicum); Misalliance, Juno and the Paycock (with his wife, Kitty Swink), Standup Shakespeare (Odyssey Theatre); Richard II (Mark Taper Forum).  At ANTAEUS:  The Seagull, Macbeth, and many Classic Fests.  TV: 80 different Guest Star roles, including Antaeus the Nox on Stargate, Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Judge Hooper on Boston Legal, and recently on CSI, Castle, and Franklin and Bash. As a voice-over artist, he was the long running voice of General Skarr on three different animated shows. In the field of video games, he has participated in over two dozen, acclaimed for his voicing of Dr. Nefarious in the Ratchet and Clank franchise as well as Andrew Ryan in the Bioshock series.

At ANTAEUS: Appeared in The Malcontent, Tonight at 8:30,  The Man Who Had All the Luck, Mercadet, Mother Courage, ClassicsFest in 2006 and 2008; co-directed The Crucible.  Other directing credits include A Walk in the Woods at Sierra Madre and Ruffian on the Stair. He appeared on Broadway in Translations and An American Daughter;  several Off-Broadway productions and tours. Radio work with LA Theatre Works in The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial and Top Secret. Extensive regional work includes South Coast Rep, La Mirada Theater, Lincoln Amphitheatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and The Rep Theatre of St. Louis. Also Pennsylvania Stage, Center Stage, GeVa, the Guthrie, Denver Center and Carbonell nominated performances at the Caldwell. Many leading roles at Vermont’s Weston Playhouse. TV: NCIS, Brothers & Sisters, Numbers, ER, Justice, Monk, Scrubs, King of Queens, Law and Order, and so on. Film: City Hall and the award winning short Tres. He is the staff photographer at ANTAEUS, and has taught at the Academy since 2003.