The Malcontent

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

Antaeus member since 1991. At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, The Seagull, The Malcontent, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, The Ugly Duckling, Mercadet, Pedrolino & The Hanky of Doom, The Blind One-Armed Deaf Mute, and The Wood Demon.  ClassicFest: Cyrano de Bergerac, Richard III, Lucky Chance, Merry Wives of Windsor, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, Penny For A Song, Collaborators. He is a master teacher of commedia dell’Arte, which he studied under the late Carlo Mazzone-Clementi. LA theater: The Capulets & The Montagues, The Importance of Being Ernest (LAWS); The Arsonists (LA  Weekly  nominee); Fafalo!, Golden  State (Dell’Arte); Master  Class (Mark Taper); La Bête, Bullshot Crummond, Footlight Frenzy and productions at The Powerhouse, Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, The Magic Theatre (S.F.). Film & TV: Almost Broadway, Born Yesterday, Book of Love, Night of the Comet, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Days of Our Lives, McBride, Lazarus Man, Quantum Leap, and the role of Don Kipper on CBS’ Bailey Kipper’s P.O.V. John also teaches workshops in commedia dell’Arte with Studio Zanni & the Antaeus Academy, and various classes at Santa Monica Emeritus College and the University of Redlands.

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: 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

A member since 2000, Mark has been seen on the Antaeus stage in The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Malcontent and Peace In Our Time. Los Angeles area work includes: Grail Project, Big Shot, TRACK 3 & The Treatment (Theatre Movement Bazaar); Little Black Shadows (South Coast Rep); Mirette (MainStreet Theatre). Broadway: The Visit w/Jane Alexander and Harris Yulin, Off-Broadway: Sharon:The Musical, adapted/directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald. A Juilliard School graduate, Mark has studied Shakespeare in Oxford, Chekov in Moscow and musical theatre in Ann Arbor. Proud Equity member since 1992. More delicious tidbits: markdoerr.com

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.

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

At ANTAEUS: Tonight at 8:30, Malcontent, Wedding Band, Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler. Lynn has appeared on Broadway in Otherwise Engaged with Tom Courtenay, directed by Harold Pinter; Bedroom Farce with John Lithgow directed by Peter Hall; Charley’s Aunt and the international tour of Brighton Beach Memoirs. Off-Broadway plays include appearances at Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, WPA and NY Shakespeare Festival. Her extensive regional theatre credits include leading roles at South Coast Repertory, (most recently Trip to Bountiful, Rest, Doll’s House, Part 2), Playhouse-in-the Park (Cincinnati), Charles Playhouse (Boston), Hartford Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven), Arena Stage (D.C.). Recent television appearances include Chicago Med and The Fosters.

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.

At ANTAEUS: The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, Mercadet and Mother Courage. She also has appeared as Madame Arkadina in The Seagull and in several ClassicsFests, most recently as Lady of Larkspur Lotion and as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.  Other stage credits include works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Wilde, Caryle Churchill, A.R. Gurney, Stoppard, Williams, as well as new plays and numerous adaptations produced Off-Broadway, at Arena Stage and the National Theatre in D.C., Pennsylvania Centre Stage, LA Theatre Centre, Laguna Playhouse, La Mirada, Theatre@Boston Court, ICT, The Odyssey and Pacific Resident Theater. She also was featured in The National Tour of Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) and Amadeus. A founding member of the Classical Theatre Company and longtime member of the The Colony Theatre, her work has earned her Ovation, LADCC, LA Weekly, Back Stage Garland and Robby Awards. TV/film credits include Up All Night, Men of a Certain Age, The Unit, 3rd Rock from The Sun, That 70’s Show and the award winning shorts, Mosaic and Creosote.  Laura graduated summa cum laude from UC Santa Barbara and received her Masters from Penn State University. She also studied at Circle In The Square Theatre School and with Milton Katselas’ in his Saturday Master Class.

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.

For Antaeus, The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Spite for Spite, Seven Keys to Baldpate, Orpheus Descending, Robin Polished By Love, Poor Bitos, Arcadia, The Learned Ladies, and co-principal violinist of the late, lamented Antaeus Orchestra. He played the aptly-named “Paul” in the final three seasons of Cheers, and before that was a regular on It’s Garry Shandling’s Show. Paul has guest-starred on many TV series, including Big Bang Theory, The Newsroom,The Mentalist, Frasier, Ally McBeal, X-Files, Star Trek Voyager, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage, recurred most notably on Malcolm in the Middle, The Larry Sanders Show and George & Leo, and appeared in the movies Office Space, The Goodbye Girl, Where the Buffalo Roam and Problem Child 2, as well as many smaller films. Paul is also a longtime member of the gracefully-aging improvisational company Off The Wall.

Buck Zachary is a graduate of Illinois State University, home of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. He comes to Los Angeles from Chicago and is proud to have found an artistic home in The Antaeus Company.

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: The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Seagull, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, The Thin Man. Los Angeles: Twelfth Night, Juliet and Her Romeo (Vanguard Rep); Shakespeare's King Phycus (The Flynnsmen). Regional: The Steward of Christendom (Mark Taper Forum); Ten Chimneys (Artists Repertory Theatre). New York: The Other Other Woman, The Merry Widows of Windsor, The Seduction of Adonis, Cupid and Psyche, The Comedy of Heirors (Turn to Flesh Productions); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Red Monkey Theater Group), Ira (Shrunken Shakespeare Company). TV: Zoey 101, iCarly, Sam & Cat. Proud member of Actors Equity Association and Antaeus.

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

Joe is thrilled to once more tread the boards of Antaeus alongside such skilled, passionate, and professional artists. TV roles include Guest Stars on Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Wife, Franklin and Bash, and Supernatural. LA Theatre includes Macbeth at Antaeus, We Are Proud to Present… at The Matrix, Nine Circles at The Bootleg Theatre, and The Pain and the Itch at The Zephyr. He also wrote, produced, directed, and acted in Noël, which was distributed on ShortsHD. He also produced and acted in Nostradamus, coming soon to a theatre near you. He is grateful for his friends, family, and all of his teachers.

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.