Three Sisters

Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center

Written by: Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Sarah Ruhl

Directed by: Nike Doukas

Transplanted from their beloved Moscow to a provincial Russian town, three sisters yearn for the city of their childhood - where they imagine their lives will be transformed and fulfilled.

Cast

Bo has been a proud member of Antaeus for a decade now appearing in productions of Measure for Measure as Lucio/Juliet, Cloud 9 (LADCC and Stage Raw Best Actor Winner), Henry IV, The Liar, The Crucible (Ovation nomination), the title role in Macbeth, The Seagull and The Malcontent. Other LA theater includes Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing with SOC and Arthur Miller’s The Price at I.C.T., Henslowe in Shakespeare in Love at South Coast Rep, King Charles III at Pasadena Playhouse and Building The Wall at the Fountain Theatre. He has also worked at The Skylight Theatre, Ensemble Theater Company, La Mirada, Laguna Playhouse, The Geffen, Disney Hall, LATheatreWorks, Theater @Boston Court, The Hollywood Bowl and A Noise Within where he received two Ovation nominations. He has worked in numerous theaters in NY including a year in the Off-Broadway Way hit As Bee’s in Honey Drown at the Lucile Lortel. He has appeared in regional theatre’s through out the country including The Long Wharf, Yale Rep, The Shakespeare Theatre, Vienna’s English Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, The Old Globe and many others. He has numerous film and television credits including Modern Family, VEEP and the HBO movie All The Way starring Bryan Cranston. He is a graduate of UCLA and received his Masters at Yale School of Drama.
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At ANTAEUS: Eight Nights, Macbeth, ClassicsFests: Heartbreak House, The Matchmaker, Hay Fever, Blithe Spirit.  She has worked extensively Off-Broadway and Regionally. Her favorite classical roles include Lady Utterword in Heartbreak House (Hartford Stage); Margery Pinchwife in The Country Wife and Lydia Languish in The Rivals (The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C); Viola in Twelfth Night (Utah Shakespearean); and Myra in Hay Fever (Westport).  She has created and premiered many new roles including Neil LaBute’s How To Fight Loneliness,  Lucy Thurber’s Killers and Other Family, Annie Weisman’s Hold Please, Rajiv Joseph’s Mr. Wolf, Richard Greenberg’s Everett Beekin, Dael Orlandersmith’s  Bones,  as well as Trainspotting (Player’s Theatre.) The Roommate, Mr. Wolf, Absurd Person Singular, Becky Shaw, Crimes of the Heart, Lobby Hero,  among many others (South Coast Repertory).  Her voice is heard regularly on commercials, video games, podcasts, and audiobooks. TV credits include The Affair, Modern Family, I’m Dying Up HereShameless, Law & Order(s), ER, Boston Legal. She is also a coach, teacher, and mother. tessaauberjonois.com
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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.
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Leo Marks*

VERSHININ
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.
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At ANTAEUS: Henry IV, Part One, The Crucible, Macbeth, The Seagull, The Autumn Garden, and ClassicsFest projects A Delicate Balance and Wrecks. The Old Globe: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Best Actor Award), Lincolnesque (Best Featured Actor Award), The Price, The Savannah Disputation. La Jolla: Glengarry Glen Ross (Nominated Best Featured Actor Award). Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Conversations with My Father, The Changing Room, Hamlet. Off Broadway: Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Regional Theater: Other Desert Cities, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, The Price, A Perfect Wedding, A Man for All Seasons, Antony & Cleopatra, A Christmas Carol. Film/TV: IMDB will tell all.
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Kitty Swink*

STAGE DIRECTIONS
At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Picnic, Macbeth, The Curse of Oedipus, Tonight at 8:30 & former Co-Artistic Director. Other theatre: Ah! Wilderness (A Noise Within), Dangerous Corner (Matrix Theatre), Juno & the Paycock (Odyssey Theatre), Ladyhouse Blues (Andak), Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (Tiffany Theatre), The Cavalcaders (Florida Stage), The Beat Generation (Merrimack Rep). TV/Film: South of Nowhere, Star Trek:Deep Space Nine, For the People, The Riches, The Fosters, Leverage, Monk, Judging Amy, Law & Order LA, Patty Hearst, In the Mood, The Longshadow, Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse, I Am I.
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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/
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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. TV/Film credits include: House M. D., The Practice, The Drew Carey Show, Side Order of Life, George Lopez. Upcoming Films: A Patient Man and Dominique’s Baby. Other Theater credits include: Crane Mississippi, Wayside (The Elephant), The Fantasticks (The Morgan-Wixson), The Comedy of Errors (Pacific Shakespeare Co.), Little Mary Sunshine (Richard Basehart Theatre). After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, Judy took her time looking for her theatrical home here in Los Angeles and found ANTAEUS.
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At ANTAEUS: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Other Theaters: Three Musketeers (Palos Verdes Performing Arts), Twelfth Night (Four Clowns), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (After Hours Theater), Les Blancs (Rogue Machine Theatre), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatricum Botanicum), Kaidan (Rogue Artists Ensemble), The Hairy Ape (Odyssey Theatre). TV/Film: Ultraman Cosmos, Superior. Streaming: Severus Snape and the Marauders (YouTube), Dick Hopper Private Eye (Amazon). Training: Antaeus Academy, ComedySportz, BA Theater Studies/Acting, USC. stankoforever.com
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At ANTAEUS: Three Days in the Country, Top GirlsThe 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 AnatomyThe Mentalist, Brothers & Sisters and Buddymoon.
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Production Team

Nike Doukas

Director
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.
*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