The Liar (2013)

At ANTAEUS: Glass Menagerie, Native Son, Cloud 9, Picnic, The Liar, The Seagull, Tonight at 8:30, Mother Courage, Pera Palas, Trial By Jury; and directed The Importance of Being Earnest and You Can’t Take It With You. OTHER STAGE:  Pasadena Playhouse, Old Globe, Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Mirada, ETC Santa Barbara, Rubicon, MainStreet, Skylight, Blank, Odyssey, Boston Court, Playwrights’ Arena, and New York’s Public Theatre. FILM:  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Amsterdam, Alex and Emma, etc. TV: Recurring on NCIS: Origins, Platonic, Loot, Chicago Fire, Clipped; guest appearances include: Hacks, The Last Thing He Told Me, 9-1-1 Lone Star, Terminal List, S.W.A.T., American Horror Story, Jane the Virgin, etc.  2013 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Leading Actress for portrayal of Maria Callas in Master Class at International City Long Beach; and L.A. Drama Critics Circle Natalie Schafer Award and an Ovation for Solo Performance for her solo comedy Non-Vital Organs. Gigi coaches actors and is a career mentor. gigibermingham.com

Antaeus Theatre: The Liar, You Can’t Take It With You; Kirk Douglas Theatre: Quack (world premiere). 

At ANTAEUS: King  Lear, Macbeth, The Liar, ClassicsFest 2010-11; The Tempest (A Noise Within); Hamlet (The Globe Playhouse); Little Women (Kennedy Center, National Tour); Skylight (The Studio Theatre); Becket (Olney Theatre Center; Henry V with Harry Hamlin , Henry VI (parts I-III)  and Measure for Measure with Kelly McGillis (The Shakespeare Theatre);  The Seagull with Gwyneth Paltrow and Christopher Walken, Our Town with Calista Flockhart and James Whitmore (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: J. Edgar, Lifeform, Fall Time, The Hollywood Sign, and Species 2. He has also toured Fringe Festivals with his award winning one-man show, Kill Your Television. Jeff has sound designed numerous productions at Antaeus including Wedding Band and is the resident foley artist at L.A. Theatre Works.

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.

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. 

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.

A year hardly goes by where Robert does not appear in a play locally or somewhere around the country. Most recently he played in Richmond, VA in Ted Lange’s Lady Patriot, which is the fourth play he has done with Ted. His theatrical home is with the Antaeus Theatre Company where he has most recently played Geronte in David Ives wonderful adaptation of Corneille’s 1648 play, The Liar. His other shows with Antaeus include Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8:30, Cousin Bette and King Lear. Robert has been acting for 51 years and has a robust list of film and TV credits which can be found on imbd.com. Has been married for 48 years to Gwynne who is a psycho-therapist. And they are the proud parents of Katie, also a psycho-therapist and Chris, a fine actor in his own right.

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

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 Pipeline;  International 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. 

At ANTAEUS: The Liar, The Seagull, The Malcontent. Theater: Macbeth, Pericles, Eurydice, The Doctor’s Dilemma at A Noise Within; Hippolytos at the Getty Villa; Gruesome Playground Injuries at Rogue Machine; Othello, Fashion, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum; Stages at the Hudson Theatre; The Beaux Stratagem, Charles Mee’s Summertime, Butterfly Kiss, The Tempest, and Hamlet. Jules is also a member of the Pacific Resident Theatre where she has appeared in Becky’s New Car, Rachel Ray, Time of Your Life, Macbeth, Stanton’s Garage and The Contest which was followed by the critically acclaimed international premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. TV: Friends With Better Lives, Teen Wolf, 10,000 Days, CSI. Film: Styria, You’re Still Here, Snake and Mongoose. Education: MFA from University of California, Los Angeles.

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: 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