The Curse of Oedipus

At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, Diana of Dobson's,  As You Like It, Henry IV Part I, Measure for Measure, and The Curse of Oedipus. Other theater: Vietgone (The Alley Theatre), Sense & Sensibility (South Coast Rep); Love's Labour's Lost, Edward III, and Cyrano de Bergerac (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Hamlet (The 6th Act); Frankenstein (A Noise Within); The Hard Problem and Vietgone (LA Theatreworks); Gloria and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide (Curious Theatre Company); Colony Collapse (Boston Court Pasadena); Supper (Theatre of NOTE); Rose and the Rime (Sacred Fools); and 99 Histories (Artists at Play). She holds degrees in Theatre and Business from UNCo. DesireeMeeJung.com

At ANTAEUS: Hamlet (Hamlet), Measure for Measure (Angelo/Claudio), Henry IV, Part One (Hal), The Curse of Oedipus (Oedipus), Macbeth (Banquo), The Malcontent (Mendoza), King Lear (Edgar), host of The Zip Code Plays Podcast ; Other Theater: Kirk Douglas, Playwrights Arena,  NY Public, Kennedy Center, Signature,  NJSF, Ojai, O’neil, Yale, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Ma-Yi among others.  TV: Recurring roles on: 12 Monkeys, The West Wing, Dynasty, MacGyver, Notorious, Counterpart, Major Crimes, Medium, Killer Instinct, Sons of Anarchy. Recent Guest Star: 911, Magnum PI,  Big Shot.  BFA: Carnegie Mellon.  Narrator of over 300 audiobooks, including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series. AWARDS: OBIE Award; 16 Earphones awards, Audie award, AudioFile “Golden Voice”- a lifetime achievement in the craft.  This is for Lauren, my hero. And Wilder, my muse. IG/TWTR/FB @ramondeocampo

At ANTAEUS: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Diana of Dobson's, The Hothouse, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Mother Courage and her Children, Trial By Jury, Patience, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Wood Demon. A founding member and early co-artistic director. Other Stages: Hillary and Bill (Victory Gardens Theater), The Imaginary Invalid, Glengarry Glen Ross, The First Picture Show (American Conservatory Theater), 36 Views (Laguna Playhouse), Archy and Mehitabel: A Back Alley Opera (The Yard, Chilmark), Temptation, The Wood Demon (Mark Taper Forum), Sex Parasite, Largo Desolato (Taper, Too), The History Boys (Ahmanson Theatre), Durango (East West Players), A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center).

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: Cloud 9, The Curse of Oedipus. Premiere of Serrano at the Matrix Theatre. Other SoCal: South Coast Rep, Pasadena & Laguna Playhouses, Rubicon, Hollywood Bowl, Reprise, La Mirada, San Diego Music Theatre, Colony, Elephant, & Havok Theatre Company. Regional: AMT San Jose, Sacramento Music Circus, Cincinnati Playhouse, Boston Merrimack Rep, and Chicago Marriott. National Tours: Camelot, Duke Ellington Songbook.  FILM: Hunky Dory (Official Selection Slamdance 2016). Television: The Cape, Girls Behaving Badly, General Hospital, and Bold/Beautiful. Ovation Awards: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Havok), The Laramie Project (Colony) and five other nominations (Lead & Supporting Actor, Producer). Education: Northwestern University.

Barry Creyton has worked extensively in British theatre, television and radio and is known nationally in his native Australia as a major identity in all entertainment media. His plays are produced in more than twenty languages, and his young adult novels are published by Random House. He has appeared in plays, revues and musicals in London’s West End, in TV series for BBC, London Weekend and ITV, and has been heard in BBC radio productions and the BBC World Service. In Los Angeles, he’s played Hector Hulot in Cousin Bette and Apollo in The Curse of Oedipus, both for The Antaeus Company, for whom he adapted Noel Coward’s Peace in our Time, winning the Ovation and LA Weekly Theatre awards. He wrote the sketch material for the Off Broadway revue Secrets, which ran for two and a half years. In 2015 he  joined the Off Broadway cast of Tribes playing Christopher for LA Theatre Works. He has been honored with the Kessell Memorial Award for his outstanding contributions to Australian theatre as actor, playwright and director, an honorary award from the Variety Club of Australia, and he received the 2014 international Noel Coward Writing Award. He adapts and directs productions for Blackstone Audio – The Tempest, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet – and for LA Theatre Works – Cyrano de Bergerac.

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.

Belen began working with Antaeus in 2011, playing Gladys in their award-winning production of Noel Coward’s Peace In Our Time. Also at ANTAEUS: Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, The Curse of Oedipus, Shakespeare’s King Phycus, The Thin Man and many ClassicsFests. In 2013, Antaeus took the reading of Allan Miller’s The Fox to the Annenberg in Palm Springs with Coyote Stageworks – Belen received a Desert Star Award nomination for Best Lead Actress for her performance. In Los Angeles, Belen has performed at The Odyssey, The Hollywood Fringe Festival (Shakepeare’s King Phycus – Best Comedy Nominee and Winner, Best of Fringe Extension 2013) and with Improvatorium’s Sunday Brunch Company. Originally from the Bay Area, Belen has performed in many theaters, including the historic Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Favorite roles include Ilse in Spring Awakening, Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest and Bananas in House of Blue Leaves. She holds a B.A. in French Studies and Theater from Mills College. Additionally, Belen studied Dramatic Literature at University of Paris X (Nanterre) and trained at L’École Nationale du Cirque Annie Fratellini in Paris, France.  Television credits include Space: Above & Beyond, The Net and Nash Bridges. She is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

At ANTAEUS: The Zip Code Plays Season 3, Hedda Gabler, The Curse of Oedipus; staged readings of Ghost Bicycle, Metamorphoses, Once in A Lifetime, The Lark, The Subject, and many more. California highlights include: South Coast Repertory (Our Town, Mr. Wolf, & many Pacific Playwright Festivals and NewSCRipts), Geffen Playhouse (Beheading Columbus, The Writers’ Room) The Old Globe (Compleat Female Stage Beauty), Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara (Crime and Punishment), San Jose Repertory (Sonia Flew), North Coast Repertory (String of Pearls), and work at Laguna Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, and Pasadena Playhouse. Elsewhere: Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Merry Wives of Windsor), Commonwealth Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest), La MaMa, New York Theatre Workshop in collaboration with Mabou Mines, American Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Ashland New Plays Festival, and more. In addition to commercial and TV work, nominated Best Actress for the short, Bonito Secrets; M.F.A. Harvard, B.A. Vassar. kwanamartinez.com

At ANTAEUS: Mother Courage, Tonight at 8:30, King Lear, The Malcontent, Peace In Our time, Macbeth, and Oedipus. He is a founding A2 Rep of the A2 ensemble. Currently, he is involved in the two person tour called Marilyn Madness and Me about Marilyn Monroe and her limo driver. He has done Theatre all over the US at such reputable theatres as The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Cortland Repertory Theatre. Some TV credits include: Untold Stories from the E.R. (TLC) and Ella and Me (Animal Planet). He has appeared in many comedy sketches on www.meyerbros.net. He is currently studying with Lesly Kahn Studios. Rebecca Miller is a beautiful soul and without her, he is nothing. @AdamJohnMeyer, www.adamtheactor.com

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.

At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus. Other Theater credits include: Theatricum Botanicum, East West Players, Ark Theatre Company, NEO Ensemble Theatre, LATC, Will & Company, Eclectic Theatre, Repertory Philippines and Bulwagang Gantimpala at The Cultural Center of The Philippines. Film and TV credits include: The Handler, Drake and Josh, Mister Sterling, Sam and Larry, and various voice over works in both English and Tagalog. Undergraduate degree from Indiana University, MFA in Acting from UCLA, attended the National Theatre (London) summer program and various classes at Antaeus Academy.

Most recently seen at Portland Center Stage and Syracuse Stage as Lyman Wyeth in their joint production of Other Desert Cities.  Ned’s most recent Antaeus appearances have included You Can’t Take it With You (Grandpa Vanderhoff), The Curse of Oedipus, Macbeth, and Tonight at 8:30. Other recent stage appearances in the area include Loot (Truscott of the Yard) at Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbara; and Groundswell, The Pleasure of his Company, Sea of Tranquility, A Body of Water, Blue/Orange, and Pericles (Ancient Gower) at San Diego’s Old Glob Theatre.  He has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, as well as at the Utah, Illinois, and Stratford (Canada) Shakespeare Festivals. Other regional theatre appearances include The Goodman and Steppenwolf theatres in Chicago, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Washington D.C., The Huntington Theatre, Boston, and the Long Wharf in New Haven.  He played on Broadway and in the National Tour of Aren’t We All with Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert and in the National Tour of Six Degrees of Separation (Flan) with Marlo Thomas.  Recent films include The Change Up, Accepted, and Wedding Crashers; and he’s made numerous guest star appearances on television.  Ned’s been a proud member of Actors Equity Association for over forty years and, for much of that time, served as a member of its National Council.

At ANTAEUS: Hamlet, Cloud 9, As You Like It, Henry IV, Part One, The Curse of Oedipus. Other Theater: Pasadena Playhouse, CTG - The Kirk Douglas and Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, International City Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Disney Concert Hall, 6th Act, Chalk Rep, The Blank, EST/LA, Boston Court, Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Road, Chautauqua Theater Company (NY), Center for New Performance/Huntington Gardens, numerous Off- and Off-Off-B’way. Film: Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon I & II, Taken 3, Bloody Bridget, Zombie Strippers, Deceit. TV: The Good Doctor, Jane the Virgin (recurring), Orville, Scandal, Castle, 90210, Medium, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Victorious, Chemistry, As the World Turns (recurring), among others. Emmy Award Winner for When Things Get Small. VO work in video games, TV/online narration, ads, audio drama podcasts, dubbing, and educational programming. Faculty member at CalArts School of Theater. M.F.A.: UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse, B.A.: Duke (Magna cum laude).

Elizabeth Swain is an actor, director and teacher, and a member of Antaeus. Directing includes The Winter's Tale (Antaeus); Hamlet (Antaeus); Measure for Measure (co-directed with Armin Shimerman (Antaeus); Romeo and Juliet and Two Noble Kinsmen (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival); An Evening of Betrayal (The 6th Act); 3 Hamlets; 2 Macbeths; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Malcontent (Antaeus); The Rover and The Lucky Chance; and several new plays, most recently The Gatekeepers by Dan Perry. She directed a zoom production of The Comedy of Errors for the Classical Theatre Lab, for whom she has directed many staged readings, including Tartuffe, Richard I & II. For Antaeus she has directed six ClassicsFest readings.

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: The Curse of Oedipus, The Seagull, Peace in our Time, You Can’t Take It With You. Other Theatre Credits: O Rejane (Bootleg Theater); A Christmas Carol (North Coast Rep); Julius Caesar (New Village Arts); The Passion Play (Odyssey Theater); The Lion in Winter (Broadway Theatre, Vista, CA); King Phycus (Hollywood Fringe Festival “Best of Fringe”). TV credits include: The Last Ship, The Ex List, Life on Mars, recurring on Rizzoli & Isles. Has appeared in over a dozen national commercials and several webseries’ including Combustion and Clothing Optional. As well as directed, starred, and edited the webseries Family Valuables and Sidekick & Roommate. Studied acting at Carey Scott’s Rehearsal Room in San Diego, the summer Shakespeare program at RADA, and several Academy classes at Antaeus. A proud member of the Antaeus Company. Website: https://www.pwwolff.com/

At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus. Other Theater: Heavier than... (The Theatre @ Boston Court), Baby Doll (The Fountain Theatre, West Coast Premiere), The Night of the Iguana (Pasadena Playhouse, Tennessee Williams Reading Series), Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night (or What You Will) (The Illyrian Players), The Muny Opera, St. Louis MO. TV: Castle, Criminal Minds, NCIS: Los Angeles, Scream, The Tyler Zone, Emmys Can Kill. Film: The Labyrinth, Dembanger, City of Frames, Here, Hold Grandma. Agents: KMR. Training: BA Theatre, UCLA; Action Theatre in Berlin, Germany; Linklater in Stromboli, Italy

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: As You Like It, The Curse of Oedipus. Recent: King of France, All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within). LA: Chutes&Ladders, Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum), Citizen: An American Lyric (Kirk Douglas Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Ahmanson Theater), Solly Two Kings, Gem of the Ocean (u/s, A Noise Within), Off the Rails (Native Voices), Prometheus Bound (Getty Villa), Citizen: An American Lyric, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Fountain Theatre), Mother Courage (Theatre @ Boston Court). Regional: Ghost/Claudius in Hamlet and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco); Henry V and The Man Who Came to Dinner (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Othello (California Shakespeare Festival); the Denver Theatre Center; Actors Theatre of Louisville; the Long Wharf Theatre; the Shakespeare Theatre (DC); and PlayMakers Rep. New York: Broadway (Electra). Film: Celebrity, The Farm. Recent TV: Call Me Kat, Modern Family, Rake. Awards: Ovation and LADCC for Acting Ensemble: The Ballad of Emmett Till.

At ANTAEUS: The Seagull (LA Weekly Award nom., Best Supporting Actress), The Curse of Oedipus, The Liar, Cloud 9, Peace In Our Time, Macbeth and The Malcontent. Other recent theater: Fallen Angels (North Coast Rep); Reborning (The Fountain); Steel Magnolias, The Pursuit of Happiness, Love Loss and What I Wore (The Laguna Playhouse); Noises Off!  (The Rubicon - Broadway World Award nom., Best Featured Actress); I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Mary’s Wedding (The Colony); Trying (The Indian Wells Theatre); Sherlock's Last Case (Kinetic Theatre in Pittsburgh), as well as shows at The Production Company, The Getty Villa, The Skylight Theatre, The Zephyr, Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Television: Modern Family, Agent Carter, House, The United States of Tara, Medium, Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip, 1000 Ways To Die. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. JoannaStrapp.com

At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time. Other Notable Theater: Dream Catcher (The Fountain), The Graduate (LATW National Tour), Runaway Home (The Fountain), Hamlet (Oxford Shakespeare Festival), Camino Real (Boston Court), Circle Jerk (RedCat CNP), Jack Benny (Padua Playwrights/ Hollywood Fringe). TV: Silicon Valley CAST (recurring), 9-1-1 (recurring), What/If (recurring), I Think You Should Leave, The Orville, Station 19, Castle, Newsroom, Client List, Maron, Body of Proof, Happy Endings, and others. Writer and Producer of Tell Us Why You’re Here (TV series). Acting Instructor at the Michael Laskin Studio, and adjunct professor at LA Mission Community College. Brian loves theater, teaching, his wife Kimberly, and his pug Muttchops :)

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.

Mark began acting professionally in 1966, with the American Conservatory Theatre. He has performed off-Broadway, regionally, and at dozens of SoCal venues, including 34 productions at A Noise Within, and with Antaeus in last season’s The Curse of Oedipus. 2013 Ovation Award nomination (lead actor) in Walking The Tightrope (reprising soon at CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre); Ovation Award (ensemble) for CTG’s Waiting For Godot; multiple L.A. Drama Critics Circle, Garland, LA Weekly and Dramalogue honors; numerous awards for audiobook narrations, including 2013 Audie nomination. Education/Training: Harvard (AB, 1965), UC Berkeley, LAMDA (Fulbright Scholar); American Conservatory Theatre; Classical Theatre Lab; Steve Eastin Studio.  Film/ TV: www.markbramhall.com