The Hothouse

At ANTAEUS: You Can’t Take It With You, Cousin Bette, American Tales, The Man Who Had All The Luck. Other Theater: The Unexpected Man (Geffen Playhouse), Cloud 9 (LA Stage Company), Kalamazoo (Pacific Resident Theatre), Beyond Therapy (L.A. Public Theatre), The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Actor’s Theater of St Paul), Fiddler on the Roof (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre). TV/Film: Grey’s Anatomy, ER, Star Trek: The Next Generation, House of Lies, CSI: Miami, The West Wing, Providence, American Zombie. Web Series: Aliens Anonymous, Empty Space, Riley Parra. Voiceover: Monsters University, WALL·E, Up, A Bug’s Life, Ben 10.

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: 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

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.

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.

Adrian LaTourelle has appeared in numerous television series such as NCIS, Castle, The Legend of Korra, Last Resort, The Closer, House, NCIS:LA, Boston Legal, Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, Numbers, Sons of Anarchy, and Days of Our Lives. His many stage credits include work in some of the best theaters in the country, such as the Mark Taper Forum, the Shakespeare Theater in DC, The Old Globe, the San Jose Rep, the Dallas Theater Center, ANTAEUS, and the Yale Repertory Theater.  Adrian has also worked abroad, performing in theater and film in Russia and the Netherlands.

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: Twelfth Night, The Little Foxes, The Hothouse, The Liar, Macbeth, Peace in Our Time. Other Theater includes: Denver Center for the Performing Arts, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, New World Stages, Boston Court Pasadena, Fountain Theatre, Moving Arts, Rogue Machine Theatre, The Road Theatre Company, Skylight Theatre Company and The Troubadour Theater Company. 

At ANTAEUS: The Little Foxes, The Hothouse, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Changeling, La Ronde. Other Local Theater: LATW (Steel Magnolias, Fathers and Sons, Amadeus); Playwright’s Arena (Red Ink); The Getty Villa (Phaedra); Sacred Fools (Free $$$). TV: The Kominsky Method, Lodge 49, Gilmore Girls. As a filmmaker: I Am I (writer, actor, director) (Newport Beach Film Festival Winner Outstanding Achievement in Directing & Champs Élysées Film Festival Nominee Audience Award Best American Feature), We’ll Never Have Paris (co-director) (Closing night film at Edinburgh Film Festival, SXSW Audience Award Nominee, Newport Beach Film Festival Winner Best Comedy).

Peter Van Norden has appeared in Antaeus productions of Hamlet (Drama Critics Circle, The Hothouse (2019 Ovation Award for Best Actor), Macbeth, The Liar, American Tales, The Man Who Had All The Luck, and The Zip Code Plays. Other recent appearances include: The Tempest, An Interactive Production at Shakespeare Center LA (where he also covered and performed for Tom Hanks as ‘Falstaff’ in Henry IV, Parts I and II); Red Ink at Playwrights Arena (2020 Ovation Award nomination); 1776 and Singin’ in the Rain at La Mirada Theater; and for three years as ‘Ebeneezer Scrooge’ in A Christmas Carol at the Rubicon Theatre Company. In his native NYC he appeared in Little Johnny Jones (with Donny Osmond), Hamlet (with both Kevin Kline and Sam Waterston), Jungle of Cities (with Al Pacino), Henry V (with Meryl Streep), and Saint Joan (with Lynn Redgrave). His many regional theater appearances include the lead roles in both George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (at San Jose Rep) and Misalliance (at Center Stage, Baltimore). Peter was the first American actor to appear in the title role of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III at Arizona Theatre Company (where he also appeared in Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys). Film and TV roles include leads in The Accused (opposite Oscar winner, Jodie Foster), Police Academy (as Steve Guttenberg’s inept partner), The Naked Gun 2 ½, and the Stephen King mini-series, The Stand. Petervannorden.com

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.

At ANTAEUS: American Tales. Other LA Theater includes: Of Good Stock, Elemeno Pea, Misalliance, Collected Stories (South Coast Repertory); Boeing Boeing, Dinner With Friends (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts); The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder (The Theatre @ Boston Court); Taking Steps (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble); Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre); The Seagull, Orlando (The Actors Gang) and many others. Film/TV: I Am I, Callers, Noise, The United States of Leland, Self Storage, Sons of Anarchy, Castle, Numb3rs, Gilmore Girls. melanielora.com. Twitter: @missmelanielora.

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: Cloud 9, The Liar, Peace in Our Time. New York Theater: The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet (Theatre for a New Audience), Two Noble Kinsmen (The Public Theater). Regional Theater: One of the Nice Ones (Echo Theater Company), Tender Napalm (SIX01 Studio), Venus in Fur, Becky Shaw, Saturn Returns, Hamlet (South Coast Repertory), The Gronholm Method (The Falcon), The Illusion (A Noise Within), Romeo and Juliet, All's Well That Ends Well, Titus Andronicus, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antony and Cleopatra, Vincent in Brixton (The Old Globe), Third (The Huntington), Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (Folger Theatre; Helen Hayes Award), The Man Who Had All the Luck (L.A. Theatre Works), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Disney Concert Hall). TV: Graphic Anthology, NCIS, Code Black, Rizzoli & Isles, Grey's Anatomy, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Touch, NCIS: Los Angeles, Ugly Betty, Big Love, Cold Case, Lincoln Heights, Guiding Light. Film: Deadly Exposé, The Men, Sisters of the Groom, Company Town. Training: The Juilliard School.

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.