Tonight at 8:30

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

At ANTAEUS: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Diana of Dobson's, The Hothouse, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Mother Courage and her Children, Trial By Jury, Patience, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Wood Demon. A founding member and early co-artistic director. Other Stages: Hillary and Bill (Victory Gardens Theater), The Imaginary Invalid, Glengarry Glen Ross, The First Picture Show (American Conservatory Theater), 36 Views (Laguna Playhouse), Archy and Mehitabel: A Back Alley Opera (The Yard, Chilmark), Temptation, The Wood Demon (Mark Taper Forum), Sex Parasite, Largo Desolato (Taper, Too), The History Boys (Ahmanson Theatre), Durango (East West Players), A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center).

At ANTAEUS: Glass Menagerie, Native Son, Cloud 9, Picnic, The Liar, The Seagull, Tonight at 8:30, Mother Courage, Pera Palas, Trial By Jury; and directed The Importance of Being Earnest and You Can’t Take It With You. OTHER STAGE:  Pasadena Playhouse, Old Globe, Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Mirada, ETC Santa Barbara, Rubicon, MainStreet, Skylight, Blank, Odyssey, Boston Court, Playwrights’ Arena, and New York’s Public Theatre. FILM:  Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Amsterdam, Alex and Emma, etc. TV: Recurring on NCIS: Origins, Platonic, Loot, Chicago Fire, Clipped; guest appearances include: Hacks, The Last Thing He Told Me, 9-1-1 Lone Star, Terminal List, S.W.A.T., American Horror Story, Jane the Virgin, etc.  2013 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Leading Actress for portrayal of Maria Callas in Master Class at International City Long Beach; and L.A. Drama Critics Circle Natalie Schafer Award and an Ovation for Solo Performance for her solo comedy Non-Vital Organs. Gigi coaches actors and is a career mentor. gigibermingham.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

At ANTAEUS: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Autumn Garden and Mother Courage (LA Weekly Award). Other recent credits include: Good People at La Mirada, Three Views of the Same Object and Four Places (LADCC Award) at Rogue Machine Theater, The Savanna Disputation at the Colony Theatre and Kate in All My Sons (LADCC Award) at the Matrix Theater, Breadcrumbs at Theater 150 in Ojai, I Never Sang For My Father with The New American Theater Company.  She has also appeared in L.A. at the Mark Taper Forum, the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse, L.A. Theater Works, the Odyssey, and the Andak Stage Co.   Regionally, she has worked at South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe,San Diego Rep, Seattle Rep, La Jolla Rep, ACT, San Francisco Rep, The American Shakespeare Festival , Connecticut Rep, the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the McCarter, Princeton Rep to name a few.   She recently appeared on TV in Murder in the First and in the motion picture Wild.

Emily Chase recently directed Eight Nights at Antaeus (LA Times Critics Choice, Ovation Recommended). Her other directing credits include Dakin Matthews’s Divorce Court Hell  (Antaeus); productions at Sierra Madre Playhouse, The Road Theatre, Theater 40, and numerous developmental workshops at Antaeus, The Road Theatre, Playwrights Union, Moving Arts, Met Theater, and Classical Theater Lab. Her past classes at the Antaeus Academy include: It’s Alive! The Nuts and Bolts of Acting in New Plays; Modern Classics; and Ringing the Rafters: Voice for the Classical Actor. She has taught acting and directed productions at UCLA, the University of Southern California, U.C. Riverside, AMDA, and A Noise Within. She is the Director of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. As an actress, she has performed at Antaeus in As You Like It, Tonight at 8:30, Cousin Bette, Peace In Our Time, Patience, Trial By Jury, The Liar. Additional acting credits include South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, The Matrix Theatre, The El Portal Theatre, Getty Center, Ford Theater, and in TV, film, and web series. She recently starred in the film Ready, which was selected by the Cannes Short Film Corner. Emily earned her M.F.A. from UCLA.

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.

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.

A proud member of the Antaeus Company since 1991, Melinda has appeared in Company productions of Peace in Our Time, Pera Palas, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Patience, The Long Christmas Dinner, Trial By Jury, Tonight at 8:30, The Plot To Overthrow Christmas among others as well as countless readings, workshops and presentations. In the Southern California theater community she has appeared on a number of stages and received an Ovation nomination for her work in The Illustrated Woman and won Dramalogue awards for Fools Die Fast and for her portrayal as Eleonora Duse in Lillian Groag’s The Ladies of the Camellias.  She has worked at regional theaters across the country (most recently as Agatha Christie in Agatha Christie & the BBC Murders), has made numerous guest appearances on television, has lent her talents to several independent films and writes and performs radio comedy with her darling husband, Philip Proctor.

Lawrence Pressman has appeared on Broadway in Woody Allen’s Play It Again, Sam; both in London and on Broadway in Man in the Glass Booth directed by Harold Pinter; and in Show People at New York’s Second Stage. His regional credits include No Man’s Land at the Odyssey Theatre; Of Equal Measure at CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre; the premiere of The Paris Letter; Wood Demon, Richard III, A Month in the Country, and a leading role in the final workshop of Perestroika at the Mark Taper Forum; Chekhov X 4 and Tonight at 8:30 at Antaeus; and performances at La Jolla Playhouse and the Ahmanson Theatre. Other favorite credits include Betrayal, The Birthday Party (Matrix), Long Day’s Journey into Night, and King Lear. Lawrence’s nominations and awards include Ovation, Drama-Logue, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Garland, Maddy, LA Weekly, GLAAD, and Broadway’s Theatre World Award. He has more than 150 television and film credits, including Transparent, Doogie Howser, M.D.; and Hart of Dixie.

Phil Proctor is a 15-year member of Antaeus and a 50-year member of the thrice-Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre, recognized as one of the “Thirty Greatest Acts of All Time” with a recording in the Library of Congress. He’s appeared on-and-off Broadway, on street corners in the USSR with the Yale Russian Chorus, in many local and regional theatres, on radio, and in scores of films, video games and TV shows. He’s won Theatre World, LA Weekly, LA Free Press and Drama Critics’ awards, and his voice credits include Toy Story, Spirited Away, Monsters, Inc., Seahorse Bob in Finding Nemo, the Drunken French Monkey in Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Vidic in Assassin’s Creed, and Howard DeVille in the Emmy-winning Rugrats, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is currently featured in the independent films Window of Opportunity, Charity and The Love Addict and tours in a one-man reading of Don Quixote with the L.A. Guitar Quartet.

Regional theatre credits include: Arena Stage (Galileo, Our Town, and The Matchmaker), Guthrie Theater (Candida), Mark Taper II (Sahara-new works fest.), Pasadena Playhouse (Camping with Henry and Tom), The Geffen (Warmusic), The Walnut St Theater (The Price), and The Lucille Lortel and Playwright’s Horizon (Once Upon a Time There Was a Family) in New York and most recently at Sierra Madre Playhouse (A Walk in the Woods). At ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30 and The Wedding Band. On TV he has re-occurring roles on such shows as True Blood, The Closer, Touch, Medium, The Practice, and guest starred on such shows as Fringe, Criminal Minds, Revenge, Mentalist, and Major Crimes (full list on IMDB.com). He has done 45 films including such movies as The Devil Inside, The Hulk, Nutty Professor, Bowfinger and Straight Outta Compton (full list on IMDB.com). John has taught in the juvenile prison system of Los Angeles county for the past 12 years and is head of education outreach of Antaeus where he is one of the creators and the lead teacher of The Odyssey Artist’s Workshop, a Shakespeare and dramatic writing program for the incarcerated and underserved young people of Los Angeles.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

Amelia White is a proud member of Antaeus.  She has appeared on the Antaeus stage in You Can’t Take it With You, Tonight at 8:30 and Penny for a Song. She works in theatre all over the US. Most recently in Blithe Spirit at Northern Stage in VT and in Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike at the Denver Centre, CO.  She  appeared in Silent Sky and Misalliance at So.Coast Rep. (Costa Mesa, CA). Broadway credits include award winning shows Crazy For You in which she created the role of Patricia Fodor, and The Heiress. She won the Theatre World Award for The Accrington Pals (Hudson Guild Theatre, NY) She Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London and is married to Antaean Geoffrey Wade. AEA member.

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 Hothouse, Picnic, Peace in Our Time, The Curse of Oedipus, The Autumn Garden, Tonight at 8:30. Other Theater: Broadway credits include Execution of Justice, Alice in Wonderland, The Man Who Came To Dinner. Other New York credits include Three US premiers at the Manhattan Theater Club, including The Rear Column by Simon Gray, Molly (Hudson Guild), The Browning Version (Roundabout), The Old Glory (American Place). Featured Actor Ovation nomination for The Savannah Disputation (The Colony Theatre Company). TV/Film: Mr. Clark had a supporting role in the Disney film McFarland, USA, recently completed filming a leading role on the indie film The Wanting Mare and has appeared in many television shows, most recently The Last Ship, Westworld (recurring), How To Get Away With Murder, Murder In The First (recurring), True Detective 2, Scorpion, Gang Related, Aquarius, Justified, Hawaii 5-0, Shameless, Scandal.