The Rover

At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, readings of The Rover; Mayor of the 85th Floor. Frequent participant of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. Other Theater: My Children, My Africa! (Marin Theatre Company); A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater); Exonerated (Lynx Performance Theatre); Good Breeding (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts); Hamlet Machine (Ion Theatre). TV/Film: 40; Easy Made Hard; The Institute. Training: B.A., San Diego State University; M.F.A., American Conservatory Theater. Member: AEA, SAG.

At ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Top Girls, Uncle Vanya, Diana of Dobsons, The Winter’s Tale. Other theatres (select): La Mirada Theatre, L.A.T.W., EST/LA, New Canon Theatre Company (Monterey), Book-It Rep (Seattle), Harlequin Productions (Olympia), MainStreet Theatre, Will Geer Theatricum, and the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, where Shannon recently performed in the American premiere of the new musical Bluebeard’s Castle. Film credits include The Dangle (Best Short at the CA International Film Festival), The Unknown, and the upcoming shorts Seasons and When You Sleep. As a writer, Shannon has made the Top 50 List in the Nicholl Screenwriting Competition and been a finalist for fellowships from Stowe Story Labs, among others. Thanks to years spent living an alternate life at sea, Shannon holds a Merchant Marine license from the U.S. Coast Guard. Education: LAMDA and Princeton University.

At ANTAEUS: The Seagull, ClassicsFest in 2011 and other workshops, Oedipus The King, The Rover, Camino Real (Antaeus A2). West Coast Premiere of Our Lady Of 121st Street (The Matrix), understudy for Take Me Out (The Geffen), Bambino (Carlsbad Playhouse). Other shows Streetcar Name Desired, Golden Boy, Six Tarantulas On An Angel Foodcake. Film/Tv: CSI Cyber, Dallas, The Mentalist, Gang Related, CSI, Burn Notice, Arrested Development, CSI Miami, Outlaw, Meet the Browns, Days of our Lives And Many Others. Oliver Stone’s Savages, The Line, The Davinci Treasure. Special thanks to Richard Seyd, Jeanie Hackett and Jack Stehlin for their support and guidance.

At ANTAEUS: Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, You Can't Take It With You; Classicsfests Readings: Metamorphoses, The Trojan Women, The Rover, Along the River, Almost Winter, The Life of Galileo, Caesar and Cleopatra, The African Women. Other Theater: A Noise Within Resident Artist: Gem of the Ocean (Ant Ester), Argonautika (Hera), Mad Woman of Chaillot (Mme. Josephine/Dr. Jardin). Regional: Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Denver Center, The Old Globe, Kirk Douglas. Local: Theatre @ Boston Court, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, LA Women's Shakespeare Company, Lower Depth Theatre. International: The Father (Stockholm, Sweden). Some TV/Film: Nana, S.W.A.T., The Unit, Parenthood, ER, Home Invasion, Southland, Threat Matrix, Brooklyn South, City of Angeles, The Young and the Restless. Artistic Associate Producer at Lower Depth Theatre.

Originally from Union N.J. Spencer has studied theatre in New York City at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Michael Howard Studios and The Barrow Group. Spencer has performed in several regional productions as well as National and European tours of West Side Story, A Chorus Line and Saturday Night Fever. Regional credits include To Kill A Mocking Bird at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Camila at The Walnut Street Theatre. Hardy in Mixtape at the Horton Grand Theatre and performed the role of Eddie in Lost In Yonkers at both The Old Globe and The Arizona Theatre. In Los Angles Spencer was most recently seen as Billis in MTW’s production of South Pacific. Film and commercial credits include After School Special starring Sarah Paulson and Wes Bentley, The Devil’s Advocate starring Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves, Two Hundred Thousand Dirty starring rap/pop artist Coolio.

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).

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.

Peter Mendoza was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He studied theater, stage combat, and dance at East Los Angeles College. At ANTAEUS: Belyaev in Three Days In The Country. Other Theater: Oscar in Sweat (Mark Taper Forum), Elliot in Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Oedipus in Oedipus El Rey (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Digital Stage), Henry Reyna in Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum, U/S); Hason in Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (The Rep. Theatre of St. Louis); Rafael in La Piedra Oscura; Don Carlos in Los Empeños de una Casa, Paco in Salon Mexico, Don Juan Tenorio in El Burlador de Sevilla (Bilingual Foundation of the Arts). TV: Perry Mason (HBO), From Scratch (Netflix), Shooter (USA), NCIS (CBS), Snowfall (FX), Casual (HULU), On My Block (Netflix). Film: Dead Bullet, Nathan's Kingdom, Parasites, Tecato, Hello to Never, Ana Maria in Novella Land.

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.