The Inland Sea

Written by: Naomi Wallace

Directed by: Amanda McRaven

Cast

Aaron Lyons*

Asquith Brown
At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, Les Liaisons DangereusesThe CrucibleCousin Bette. Other Theater: Devil And Billy Markham (award winning one man show, Zenith Ensemble); Pulp Shakespeare (Asylum Theatre); Delusion (Haunted Play); Hamlet (ASC); A Midsummer’s Night Dream (ASC). TV/Film: Bell CanyonThe Wasteland (Historian)UnfriendedTo The BeatTo The Beat 2Saint GeorgeWeeds. Training: B.A., University of Massachusetts @ Amherst, Antaeus Theatre Company , Lecoq Mask Intensive, Studio 24/7, To Play Not Work Studio.
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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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Bill Brochtrup*

Lancelot/Capability Brown
At ANTAEUS: Cloud 9, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Seagull, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, Pera Palas. Other Theater: Primary Stages, South Coast Repertory, Ensemble Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre, Black Dahlia, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, L.A. Theatre Works, Pasadena Playhouse, Rogue Machine Theatre. Film: Hypnotized, Life As We Know It, He’s Just Not That Into You, Ravenous. Television: recurring on Major Crimes, Shameless, Kendra; series regular on Public Morals, Total Security, NYPD Blue. Spoken Word: Sit ‘n Spin, Rant & Rave, Spark Off Rose, as well as numerous other storytelling venues. Billbrochtrup.com
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James Ferrero

Scarth/Villager #4
AT ANTAEUS: Various readings including: Fallibility, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Sinner from Toledo. Other Theater: The Woman Who Went to Space As A Man (Son of Semele), Romeo & Juliet (Tim Venable), Come Back, Little Sheba (A Noise Within), Much Ado About Nothing (Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum), A Bright Room Called Day (Coeurage Theatre). He is a co-founder of CoLaboratory, acting in and producing Narcissus & Echo, Wolf,  & Sand Moon. He is also the creator/producer of Shakes on the Rocks, a Shakespearean cabaret. He is a proud AEA member. He received his B.A. in Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz. You can follow him @thereeljferrero. www.james-ferrero.com
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Dylan Jones

Hesp Turner
Dylan Jones is a native Angelina, proud Antaeus A2 & Elephant Theater Company member.  Theatrical highlights include Theatre Movement Bazaar’s Track 3, the Elephant’s Block Nine and 7 Redneck Cheerleaders, her one-woman show Pink Champagne and Zoo District’s The Master and Margarita. She can be seen in various television shows and films and is known as the Blueshammer girl in the cult classic Ghost World.  Find her any night singing and dancing with her band FREAKSTAR or any morning with Gwendolyn & the Good Time Gang.  She enjoys long walks at sunset and lepidoptery.
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Michael McShane*

Ash Pidduck (Leafeater)
Mike McShane was one of the regular cast members of Whose Line is it Anyway and has performed and taught improvisation for Pixar, Savannah College of Art and Design, and many workshops in the United Kingdom. He is a semi-regular with The Comedy Store Players in London, and has performed on Broadway and the West End in London in La Cage Aux FollesLittle Shop of HorrorsThe Pocket Dream and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, the world premiere of The Tailor Made Man and, most recently, the hit production of Assassins on the West End. He was a company member of The American Conservatory Theatre and The California Shakespeare Festival, and The Antaeus Company, where he has been in their acclaimed productions of Cousin Bette and the The Seagull. He has been seen on television in Seinfeld, ER, Malcolm in the Middle and The Drew Carey Show, as well as many other sitcoms and episodics in the U.S. In the U.K. He has guest starred as the evil Julius Grayle in Doctor Who and was a guest star in the pilot of Bluestone 4-2, and will be seen in FX TV’s Wayward Pines. In film, he portrayed Friar Tuck in Robin Hood; as Professor Keenbean in Richie Rich ; as Harold Vilmes in Drop Dead Gorgeous; Office Space, and many other films. You can hear Mikes’ voice in A Bug’s LifeVampire Hunter DSpawn- The TV seriesKing of the Hill and many other animated films. He is also a member of Impro Theatre, where he devised Shakov, using a single suggestion with Shakespeare and Chekov as a starting point.
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Janellen is well-known to Los Angeles theater audiences. She most recently appeared in Native Gardens at Coachella Valley Rep. Other credits: Maria Vasilyevna Voynitskaya in Uncle Vanya at New American Theatre. And she appeared in the original cast of its precursor, The Wood Demon, at The Mark Taper Forum, where she also appeared in A Flaw in the Ointment at Taper Too. Janellen has also performed at The Old Globe. In L.A. at: L.A. Theatreworks, East/West Players, the Getty Villa, The Odyssey, The Fountain Theatre, Sacred Fools,The Evidence Room, 24th Street Theatre, and in several productions with The Antaeus Company of which she is a founding member. She has appeared on TV in shows such as Sleeper Cell, Roseanne, Strong Medicine and in independent films. She has also appeared at regional theaters from Ohio, to New York, to Key West. Janellen is also a jazz vocalist and as a voice over actor, she can be heard in numerous video games, animation, radio and T.V commercials, and dubs English into international television films and series. She helped develop and lead Antaeus’ Education Outreach program and has taught for Antaeus Academy.
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KAREN MALINA WHITE : Antaeus: You Can’t Take It With You, The Liar, The Wedding Band, As You Like It and Eight Nights;  The Fountain Theatre: The Ballad of Emmett Till (LA Drama Critics Circle Award, LA Ovation Award), Citizen and Runaway Home;  LATW: The Mountaintop (Tour), Hedda Gabler, Little Foxes, Behind The Sheet and PipelineInternational City Theatre: The Old Settler  (NAACP nomination); Rogue Machine: the world premiere of In the Valley of the Shadow;  South Coast Rep: originated the role of Ernestine in the West Coast premiere of Crumbs From the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage  (NAACP Image Award);  Mixed Blood Theatre:  Permanent Collection, Salt Fish N’ Bakes, and Distracted; Television:  Netflix's DAHMER, Hallmark's Tis' The Season to be Merry, and Love For Real, BRUH, Mom, Cherish The Day, Lodge 49, Raven’s Home, Kidding, Shameless, Snowfall, Animal Kingdom, How to Get Away with Murder, Veep, Mike and Molly, The Mentalist, A Different World, Malcom n Eddie, The Cosby Show,  AND Her highly recognizable voice is featured on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder on Disney Plus as the character of Dijonay. 
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At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theaters: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Jane Bingley) at Ensemble Theatre Company, The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll (Lorina) at Theatre at Boston Court, By the Bog of Cats (Caroline) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Cecily) at Theatre Banshee, the Chicago Company of Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding (Sister Terry), and several seasons with the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival. TV/Film: Switched at Birth, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life, Shameless, Scorpion, Transparent, S.W.A.T., commercials for Wendy’s, Merck, etc. Training: CWRU. Representation: Smith & Hervey/Grimes Talent Agency. Love: JB.
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Kendra Chell

Simone Faulks
At ANTAEUS: Peace in Our Time, multiple ClassicsFests and readings. Theatre credits include: UK, China, Russia and Southern California tours of Track 3 (Theatre Movement Bazaar, LA Weekly Award Nominee), The Illusion (Open Fist Theatre, LA Weekly Award Nominee), As You Like It (Kingsmen Shakespeare), The Dead (Open Fist), Arcadia (Sierra Madre Playhouse). Film/TV: I Am I, DDMTA, The Selling, Transparent, 9-1-1 and Pearson. Love to D & H.
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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.
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Production Team

Calvin Robbins

Stage Directions
*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