Tiger at the Gates
Written by: Jean Giraudoux
Directed by: Peter Levin
Cast
Paul Eiding*
Abneos/Olpides/Old Man #2
At ANTAEUS: You Can’t Take It With You, Cousin Bette, American Tales, The Man Who Had All The Luck. Other Theater: The Unexpected Man (Geffen Playhouse), Cloud 9 (LA Stage Company), Kalamazoo (Pacific Resident Theatre), Beyond Therapy (L.A. Public Theatre), The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Actor’s Theater of St Paul), Fiddler on the Roof (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre). TV/Film: Grey’s Anatomy, ER, Star Trek: The Next Generation, House of Lies, CSI: Miami, The West Wing, Providence, American Zombie. Web Series: Aliens Anonymous, Empty Space, Riley Parra. Voiceover: Monsters University, WALL·E, Up, A Bug’s Life, Ben 10.
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Daniel Blinkoff*
Paris
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.
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Terry Evans
Busiris/Messenger/ Old Man #1/Ajax
At ANTAEUS: Patience, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Mother Courage and Her Children, Trial By Jury, The Proof of the Promise, Pedrolino, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, and others. A former board member, he’s acted, produced, designed, and production managed for Antaeus. He is a founding member of Andak Stage Company. Los Angeles credits include the west coast premieres of Ira Levin’s Cantorial (University of Judaism) and Denial by Peter Sagal (El Portal.) The Angeles of Lemnos, The Merchant of Venice (The Road Company.) and others. He has appeared in films and television, recorded a series of audio books and worked as a voice-over artist. A project manager and design consultant, he conceived and designed one of the three performance venues at the El Portal Theatre. He served on the North Hollywood Public Art Advisory Committee, and in multiple capacities helping develop the NoHo Arts District.
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Emily Lenkeit*
Polyxene/Laundress
Ian Littleworth*
Troilus/Messenger/Guard
At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, As You Like It, Macbeth. World Premieres: Kingdom City, A Lonely Boy’s Guide to Survival… (La Jolla Playhouse). Other credits include The Lion in Winter (Laguna Playhouse); Ah! Wilderness (A Noise Within); 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Palos Verdes Performing Arts); Carrie the Musical (La Mirada Theater); Hamlet the Rock Musical (El Portal Theater); Cabaret (Celebration Theater). Ian trained a the University of Southern California and the British American Drama Academy.
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Don R. McManus*
Hector
Feature credits include: The Starling, Vice, Under the Silver Lake, Grand Piano, Grandma, The Maze Runner, Lucky Bastard, For A Good Time Call, Magnolia, The Shawshank Redemption, Under the Tuscan Sun, National Treasure, Hannibal, Air Force One. TV credits include: Sorry For Your Loss, Mom, Justified, 24, Northern Exposure, NCIS, Private Practice, Rescue Me, Parks and Recreation, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Dexter, Seinfeld, Frasier, The Closer, CSI, Mad About You. Stage credits include: New York Public Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, San Francisco's ACT, The Old Globe Theater, the Matrix Theater, ANTAEUS. A graduate of Yale University.
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Ned Schmidtke
Priam
Most recently seen at Portland Center Stage and Syracuse Stage as Lyman Wyeth in their joint production of Other Desert Cities. Ned’s most recent Antaeus appearances have included You Can’t Take it With You (Grandpa Vanderhoff), The Curse of Oedipus, Macbeth, and Tonight at 8:30. Other recent stage appearances in the area include Loot (Truscott of the Yard) at Ensemble Theatre Company in Santa Barbara; and Groundswell, The Pleasure of his Company, Sea of Tranquility, A Body of Water, Blue/Orange, and Pericles (Ancient Gower) at San Diego’s Old Glob Theatre. He has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, as well as at the Utah, Illinois, and Stratford (Canada) Shakespeare Festivals. Other regional theatre appearances include The Goodman and Steppenwolf theatres in Chicago, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Washington D.C., The Huntington Theatre, Boston, and the Long Wharf in New Haven. He played on Broadway and in the National Tour of Aren’t We All with Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert and in the National Tour of Six Degrees of Separation (Flan) with Marlo Thomas. Recent films include The Change Up, Accepted, and Wedding Crashers; and he’s made numerous guest star appearances on television. Ned’s been a proud member of Actors Equity Association for over forty years and, for much of that time, served as a member of its National Council.
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Armin Shimerman*
Demokos
(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.
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Kitty Swink*
Cassandra
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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Rebekah Tripp
Andromache
At ANTAEUS: Uncle Vanya, MacBeth, Peace in Our Time. Other Theatre: A Moon for the Misbegotten (Rubicon Theatre), Nice Things (Rogue Machine), Andronicus (Coeurage Theatre Company),Belfry (Malibu Playhouse), The Liar (The Ensemble Theatre), RII (Boston Court). TV/Film: Why Women Kill, Pretty Boy, Can You Take My Picture. Member: AEA. www.rebekahtripp.com.
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Marcelo Tubert*
Mathematician/Topman
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!
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Devon Sorvari
Helen
