Three Days in the Country

At ANTAEUS: Hedda Gabler, Macbeth, American Tales, Pera Pelas. Other Theater: Sondheim UnScripted, The Western UnScripted, Chekhov UnScripted, Shakespeare UnScripted (Impro Theatre); The Belle of Belfast (Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA); The Children (The Theatre @ Boston Court); Opus (FountainTheatre – StageSceneLA Award: Best Actor); Major Barbara, An Italian Straw Hat (Garland Award: Best Actor), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, School for Wives, Nostalgia, A Christmas Carol (South Coast Repertory); A Distant Shore (Center Theatre Group). TV/Film credits include: With Honors, Crossing the Bridge, Rockabye, Close to Home (recurring), Charmed, NYPD Blue, Law & Order. Mr. Blinkoff received his MFA from The Yale School of Drama.

Dawn Didawick is a founding member. Her varied career has taken her from New York to Europe in the classics and new works. Broadway: All My Sons (Tony Award Best Revival), Regional credits include Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Long Wharf Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Globe Theater in San Diego, Alabama Shakespeare Theater, ART, Seattle, St Louis, and South Coast Repertory Theaters.  Her roles ranged from Dee Dee in Marsha Norman’s The Laundromat to Juliet, Hermia, Titania, Gonzala in works of Shakespeare to Amy and Clara in The Show Off, both productions with one of her theater mentors, Jean Stapelton. She has appeared with her husband, Harry Groener, in many productions including Caught in the Net at The Coconut Grove and Regrets Only at The Cape Playhouse.  Her participation in the development of new works included stints at New Harmony, The Gathering and The Colony (both in Montana). She serves as an honorary board member of The Alpine Theater Project in Whitefish, Montana, and has served as a long time board member of The Antaeus Company. At ANTAEUS: The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Bear, Pera Palas, Autumn Garden, The Seagull, The Crucible, Uncle Vanya, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (multiple nominations and Stage Raw Award for Supporting Female Performance for “Big Mama” )and Three Days in the Country. Over the years she has participated in many Classic Fest readings and workshops, including her favorite as Amanda in Glass Menagerie. Representative film and T.V. credits: Erin Brockovich, Christmas with the Kranks, The Amateurs, I Am I, Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse, Hart of Dixie and Pretty Little Liars.

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.

Harry Groener is a founding member At ANTAEUS: Pera Palas, Mother Courage, The Bear in Chekhov x Four, and the title role in King Lear (Drama Circle Award), Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Ovation, Drama Critics Circle and Stage Raw Awards), Three Days In The Country and Uncle Vanya. His multiple Broadway and Off Broadway credits include Crazy For You (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations), Cats (Tony Nomination), Oh Brother!, Oklahoma! (Tony Nomination and received Theater World Award), Harrigan and the Hart, Is there Life After High school, Sleight of Hand, Sunday in the Park with George, Imaginary Friends, and Spamalot. Other Nominations and Awards: Ovation Award Equivocation, Geffen Playhouse, Jefferson Award (The Madness of King George, Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Jefferson Award Nominations: Cyrano De Bergerac, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, William Tecumseh Sherman, The March, Steppenwolf Theater. Other recent credits include: Lincoln and LBJ in Appomattox, The Guthrie Theater; The Train Driver, Long Wharf Theater. Film and Television partial: About Schmidt, Patch Adams, and Road to Perdition, Cure For Wellness, Dear John, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI, How I Met Your Mother, Medium, Bones, Las Vegas, Breaking Bad, The West Wing and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager, and Enterprise.

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.

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.

Lily Knight has appeared in feature films (among them, the upcoming Sky, The Artist, Touch, Changeling, The Secretary, Dahmer, AI), on over 50 television shows (most recently, a recurring role on American Crime, Grey’s Anatomy, Castle, American Horror Story, True Blood, Rizzoli & Isles, and Medium, to name a few) and on Broadway (Agnes of God, As Is, The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940) and off Broadway (The Holy Terror, The Early Girl, The Fiery Furnace, among many others) and regionally, at Arena Stage, ATL, Boston Shakespeare Company, Baltimore’s Center Stage, Berkshire and Williamstown Theatre Festivals, and more. Most recently, she performed onstage in A Delicate Balance at the Odyssey, as well as The Crucible, Peace in Our Time, and The Autumn Garden at Antaeus, where she is a company member. Lily tours with Ensemble Galilei in First Person: Seeing America, Universe of Dreams, and Anna’s Garden and is currently cocreating EG’s next show: Galileo and the Lost Marbles. Her next play is Adam Boch’s A Small Fire at the Echo Theatre. Next film, The Role Model.

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.

(Co-Director of Measure for Measure, The Crucible, and Shakespeare teacher at Antaeus). He is a highly regarded actor and is best known to television audiences as Quark, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He portrayed Leo Tolstoy in Discord for both the Noho Arts Theater and the Geffen Theater. Broadway: Threepenny Opera; St. Joan; I Remember Mama, and Broadway.  Selected Regional Theater: King Lear (Fool), Road to Mecca (Marius),The Seafarer (Blind Irishman -San Diego Critics Circle Award for Best Actor: San Diego Repertory); Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Merry Wives of Windsor (The Old Globe); Henry V (American Shakespeare Festival); Hoagy, Bix, Wolfgang Beethoven Bunkhouse (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Threepenny Opera, Camille, Wild Oats (Guthrie Theatre).  Selected LA Theater – Birthday Party (LA Drama Critics Circle nomination – Lead Performance: The Matrix Theatre); Hamlet, As You Like It (Theatricum Botanicum); Misalliance, Juno and the Paycock (with his wife, Kitty Swink), Standup Shakespeare (Odyssey Theatre); Richard II (Mark Taper Forum).  At ANTAEUS:  The Seagull, Macbeth, and many Classic Fests.  TV: 80 different Guest Star roles, including Antaeus the Nox on Stargate, Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Judge Hooper on Boston Legal, and recently on CSI, Castle, and Franklin and Bash. As a voice-over artist, he was the long running voice of General Skarr on three different animated shows. In the field of video games, he has participated in over two dozen, acclaimed for his voicing of Dr. Nefarious in the Ratchet and Clank franchise as well as Andrew Ryan in the Bioshock series.

Marcelo, a founding member of ANTAEUS in 1991, performed in Three Days In The Country, Henry IV Part I, You Can't Take It With You, The Wood Demon, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Trial by Jury, Patience, Of Mice and Men, to name a few. Other Theater: Mark Taper Forum, Yale Rep, Milwaukee Rep, The Old Globe, The Colony Theatre, New Mexico Rep, Taper Too, and Ojai Playwright’s Festival. He received an Ovation award for San Fran Scapin, adapted from Moliere’s Scapin.  Marcelo’s many TV, Film and Voiceover credits can be viewed at Marcelo Tubert IMDB or his website marcelotubert.com. Argentinian born, Marcelo and his multi-talented wife Lori are the proud parents of two amazing daughters, Emily, and Sarah. His philosophy: Live Simply, Remain Grateful!

At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, The Seagull, Peace in our Time, You Can’t Take It With You. Other Theatre Credits: O Rejane (Bootleg Theater); A Christmas Carol (North Coast Rep); Julius Caesar (New Village Arts); The Passion Play (Odyssey Theater); The Lion in Winter (Broadway Theatre, Vista, CA); King Phycus (Hollywood Fringe Festival “Best of Fringe”). TV credits include: The Last Ship, The Ex List, Life on Mars, recurring on Rizzoli & Isles. Has appeared in over a dozen national commercials and several webseries’ including Combustion and Clothing Optional. As well as directed, starred, and edited the webseries Family Valuables and Sidekick & Roommate. Studied acting at Carey Scott’s Rehearsal Room in San Diego, the summer Shakespeare program at RADA, and several Academy classes at Antaeus. A proud member of the Antaeus Company. Website: https://www.pwwolff.com/

As a member of Antaeus Theatre Company, Ellis most recently recorded 90303: Inglewood - The Vig, an episode of “The Zip Code Plays."  Other Antaeus credits include Native Son, Three Days in the Country, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Ellis can be also seen and heard in many L.A. Theatre Works audio theatre productions including The Thanksgiving Play, Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die, The Goodbye Girl, Jefferson’s Garden and the National Tour of LATW’s Seven. In early 2023 she’ll play Lucille Ball in the LATW National Tour of “Lucy Loves Desi: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom.” Other L.A. theatre credits include Native Son at Center Theatre Group’s “Block Party,” The Matchmaker at Actor’s Co-op, and workshops and staged readings at Pasadena Playhouse, Independent Shakespeare Co. and others.  Regional theatre credits include Desdemona, a play about a handkerchief at Opera House Arts, The Many Women of Troy with Pallas Theatre Collective and The Diary of Anne Frank with Oklahoma Children’s Theatre. She received a BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California.

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Other Theater: Romeo and Juliet (Arizona Theatre Company), Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Boops (The Theatre @ Boston Court). TV/Film: Scandal, Longmire, The Last Ship, Secrets and Lies, Castle, The Flash. Training: BFA, Boston University, Acting; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Classical Certificate.

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Macbeth. Other Theater: Oedipus the King, Richard III, Antigone (A Noise Within), The Seagull (Matrix Theatre), The Women (San Diego Repertory). TV: Grey’s Anatomy, Bones, CSI, Weeds, Nip/Tuck, NYPD Blue, Star Trek: Voyager, Boston Legal, ER, The Young and the Restless. Film: Freeway, Rushlights, Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell. Her audiobook narrations have received numerous Earphones Awards and Audie Award nominations.

At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theater: Shaheed (Off Broadway at The Lynn Redgrave Theater, Ovation Award Lead Actress), Stuff Happens (Mark Taper Forum, Ovation Nomination), Palace of the End (Noho Arts Center, LA Weekly Award/Ovation Nomination), No Word in Guyanese for Me (GLAAD Award), Falling (Rogue Machine Theatre), Around the World in 80 Days (The Cleveland Playhouse), My Name Is Asher Lev (The Fountain Theatre, Ovation Nomination), Free Outgoing (East West Players). TV/Film: Recurs on Madam Secretary (CBS), S.W.A.T. (CBS), The Good Place (NBC), Shooter (USA), For The People (ABC), Quantico (ABC), Silicon Valley (HBO).

At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theater: Broadway credits include Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (U/S) and the first national tour of Cabaret. He has performed at regional theaters around the country including The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, South Coast Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Chalk Repertory Theatre and Young Jean Lee’s Theatre Company. TV/Film: Chicago P.D., You're the Worst, Scorpion, The Walking Dead, Perception, CSI: Miami and HBO’s The Normal Heart. BFA Otterbein College, MFA UC San Diego. coreybrill.com

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country, Top Girls, The Autumn Garden. Regional: King Charles III (Arizona Theatre Company), The Nether (Kirk Douglas Theatre), The Tall Girls (La Jolla Playhouse, DNA Series), The Jacksonian (Geffen Playhouse, U/S). Additional theater credits include: the one woman show All American Girl (InterACT Theatre Company), Jane Eyre (L.A. Theatre Works), The House Of Yes (Zephyr Theatre), Sidhe (The Road Theatre). TV/Film: Grey’s Anatomy, The Mentalist, Brothers & Sisters and Buddymoon.

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country, As You Like It. Other Theater: Equus, Three Sisters, Twelfth Night, Accomplice, Pacific Overtures, Mother Tongue, Rashomon (East West Players); Bloodletting (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Playwrights Arena); Blood Wedding (Odyssey Theatre); Dogeaters (La Jolla Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre); Fish Head Soup (Berkeley Repertory Theatre/A Contemporary Theatre); The Wash (Studio Theatre, D.C.); Made in Bangkok (Mark Taper Forum); The Importance of Being Earnest (A Noise Within); Romeo and Juliet (Lodestone Theatre Ensemble); The White Death (Catch A Star Theatrical (CAST, Catch A Star Theatrical Players). TV/Film: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Assassination of Gianni Versace, Get Shorty, The West Wing, Beyond the Next Mountain, Melrose Place, Coach, Family Law and The Defenders.

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country; Ah, Samolo; Autumn Garden; The Seagull; The Crucible; The Curse of Oedipus. She appeared as a child in featured roles in television, stage and film: Mrs. McThing (opposite Billie Burke), Mother Was a Bachelor, Summer and Smoke, The Innocents (Pasadena Playhouse), Lux Video Theatre, Matinee Theatre, Lassie, Father Knows Best, One Step Beyond, Wagon Train, Sugarfoot, Donna Reed Show, Perry Mason, Rawhide, Frank Sinatra Show, Escort West, Dr. Kildare, among many others.

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.

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country. Selected regional and local credits include: Three Days in the Country, King Charles III, Abundance, The Whipping Man, Prometheus Bound, The Nether, The Great Divide, The Government Inspector, Cymbeline, The Importance of Being Ernest, Dark Plays or Stories for Boys. Adam has won or been nominated for Ovation, LA Drama Critics, LA Weekly and Broadway World awards. Adam can also been seen on the Disney Channel’s Bizaardvark. He is a founding member of Poor Dog Group, a Los Angeles-based contemporary performance group. He’s eternally grateful to Cookie. poordoggroup.com

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country. Other theater includes: Billy Elliot the Musical, Children of Eden, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Little Mermaid, Damn Yankees, Oklahoma! and Evita. He has been in short films, choreography videos and done voice work for music albums. TV: A Christmas Story Live (FOX).

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country. Other Theater: He has been in several plays and musicals at Ovation School for the Performing Arts *(where he receives training in drama, voice and dance), including You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. TV/Film/New Media: The Tortoise and His Tail, Paper Children, Wheelz, Homeschoolerz. EJ is also a student of Filipino Martial Arts (Kali/Arnis) and cultural folk dances (Hawaiian and Filipino).

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country. LA Theater includes: El Grande Circus de Coca Cola (Skylight Theatre/ The Colony Theatre); Our Town, Da (Sierra Madre Playhouse); El Grande de Coca-Cola (Ruskin Group Theatre). New York Theater includes: All Over (Atlantic Theatre Company - collaboration with Edward Albee), Named (Rising Phoenix Rep) and Young (Ars Nova Building) - both Lucy Thurber World Premieres, as well as six seasons at Acadia Repertory Theatre in Maine. TV/Film: Extant (CBS), Lethal Admirer (Lifetime), Stormageddon and LA Apocalypse (both SyFy), Destruction: LA (Starz). Training: LAMDA, Atlantic Acting School. BA: Columbia University. Lila is also a producer and writer. liladupree.com

At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country. Other Theater: Henry IV, Part One (Show Me State), The Madwoman of Chaillot (A Noise Within), The Tempest (Shakespeare Orange County), Vieux Carre (Coeurage Theatre Company). TV/Film: Angie Tribeca (TBS), Colony (USA), Bully (Lazy Racer prod.). Other recent projects: CBS Diversity Showcase (2018 cast), The Filth (web series), Giggle Break (a sketch comedy channel). Training/Awards: B.A., USC; John Blankenchip / William C. White Award.