Top Girls

At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, Diana of Dobson's, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Picnic, Henry IV, Part One, The Curse of Oedipus, Top Girls, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It With You, The Autumn Garden, Tonight at 8:30, Mother Courage and Her Children, Proof of the Promise, Trial by Jury. She has appeared Off-Broadway, regionally at Milwaukee Repertory Theater and Pittsburgh Public Theater, and locally at the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, The Los Angeles Theatre Center and at numerous small theaters. Television: Sequestered, The Middle, Criminal Minds, Without a Trace, StarTrek TNG (recurring).  Movies: K-town Cowboys, Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-animation, Gods of Circumstance, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Bob Roberts, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, the cult classic Jailbird Rock, among others.

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.

Julia Davis earned her BA in Theatre Arts at SFSU and her MFA in Acting at USC.  At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, Top Girls, ClassicsFest readings of Beyond the Horizon, Little Women and Picnic.  Other credits include Robin Hood at South Coast Rep, For the Birds at The Getty Villa, That Beautiful Laugh at Long Beach Playhouse and Everything you Touch at Theatre @ Boston Court (u/s).  She has also toured with a two-person clown show, The Day They Hung the Elephant (she plays the elephant).  Be sure to check her out as a terrible acting student in the new web series, Break A Hip.  Proud member of Four Clowns, the Troubadour Theatre Company, and AEA.

Etta Devine recently directed and starred in the feature Diani and Devine Meet The Apocalypse with fellow member Gabriel Diani. Like their first movie The Selling, Diani And Devine Meet The Apocalypse features many Anteans. Also with Gabriel Diani, she published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn {Robotic Edition} and is half of the comedic duo Diani & Devine. Etta can be heard doing multiple voices for the cartoon Bee and Puppycat. At ANTAEUS Etta played Gret/Angie in Top Girls, Phyllis in Peace In Our Time, and Ismene in the Legend Of Oedipus with the Getty Villa.

At ANTAEUS: Wedding Band, Top Girls, Peace In Our Time and many ClassicsFest readings. A2 productions include: Celebration, The Typists, The Thin Man and The After-Dinner Joke. UK Theatre: The Woman In Black (No.1 UK and Asia Tour), The Gift(London Tour), The Two Noble Kinsman(Latchmere Theatre, Battersea). Film: Diani & Devine Meet The Apocalypse, I Am I, The Selling. Can also be seen on the Web in: The Sanctum, Mary Olson, Pucker and others. Trained at Drama Studio London and SUNY Purchase. Website: karianneflaathen.com

At ANTAEUS: Top Girls, The Crucible, Nina Variations, Celebration, Cousin Bette, Arcadia, The After Dinner Joke, The Women, Camino Real, and other various readings and workshops. Other Theatre: Arcadia (Sierra Madre Playhouse), Uncle Vanya, Rhinoceros, Freud Scenario, Antigone, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Steel Magnolias.  Films include Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse,The Selling, Stik Men, Brain Dead and Fear Ever After. She is currently starring in the gritty period Western web series Red Bird. Proud AEA & SAG-AFTRA member.

At ANTAEUS: Henry IV Part I, Top Girls. ClassicsFest: Henry IV Part I, The London Cuckolds, Beyond the Horizon. Other work includes collaborations with Huntington Theatre Company, The Actors Studio, Manhattan Shakespeare Project, Columbia University, LAMDA and more. TV: Criminal Minds, General Hospital, Conan. When not at Antaeus, Sally might be found hiking, tweaking a recipe to make it healthier or (let’s be real) to incorporate what she currently has in her fridge, or gazing out the window with her cat, King Henry IX. Yes, that’s his name and he lives up to it. She’s also pretty into photography. Sally is a proud Texan, graduate of Boston University’s BFA program.

At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson's, Cloud 9 (Stage Raw Nomination – Best Supporting Actress, 8 LADCC Awards), Top Girls (Ovation nomination – Best Supporting Actress, Backstage and Sage awards – Best Supporting Actress), As You Like It. Other Theater: Sense and Sensibility (South Coast Rep.), Prelude to a Kiss (Craig Lucas, SCR), Losing My Religion (Pasadena Playhouse), Hamlet, Women Beware Women (The Shakespeare Theatre), Three Sisters (Studio Theatre), I Love Lucy: a funny thing happened on the way to the sitcom (L.A. Theatre Works, World Premiere), Eurydice, The Beaux Stratagem, A Christmas Carol, Uncle Vanya, Tartuffe, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Long Day’s Journey into Night (A Noise Within), A Bright Room Called Day (Coeurage), The Visit, The Tempest (Oval), South of Delancey (Fremont Centre), Motherland (Inkwell). Selected FILM/TV: Bordertown (Netflix), Glee (Fox), The Dream (Flying Box – Lulu Wang, Bruce Dern), People at a Party (BBC), commercial campaigns for Barclay’s Bank and “We Card” (Dir. Tony Scott) MFA: The Academy for Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. BA: The George Washington University. abigailmarks.com

At ANTAEUS: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Uncle Vanya, Top Girls, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Ovation Nomination), Peace in Our Time, King Lear, Cousin Bette and Pera Palas. With South Coast Repertory: Going to A Place Where You Already Are (World Premiere), Five Mile Lake (World Premiere), 4000 Miles, The Parisian Woman (World Premiere), In the Next Room or the vibrator play, A Wrinkle in Time, Emilie (World Premiere) The Heiress and Doubt, a parable. Her other theater credits include Cock at Rogue Machine Theatre (Ovation Award); We Are Proud to Present... at The Matrix Theatre; The Savannah Disputation, Educating Rita and Trying at The Colony Theatre Company; The Cherry Orchard at Center Theatre Group. Film and Television credits include: You Bury Your Own, Zerophilia, Headless Horseman, The Waterhole, Cold Case, Medium, Modern Family, Break a Hip and Kittens in a Cage. She has also narrated several audiobooks including The Vampire Diaries series as well as Sara B. Larson’s DEFY series. She will be featured alongside 8 other LA-based theater actors in the documentary LOVE 99, narrated by Helen Mirren. Mozo earned her BFA from Rutgers University and studied at The Globe Theatre in London.

Linda Park has been a series regular on Star Trek Enterprise (CBS), Raines (NBC), Women's Murder Club (ABC) and Crash (Starz). She recurs on Bosch (Amazon), For All Mankind (Apple TV) and Fairfax (Amazon). Her favorite guest star appearances have been The Mentalist (CBS), Castle (ABC), The Affair (Showtime), Claws (TNT) and Amazing Stories (Apple TV).

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.

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: The Little Foxes, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Picnic, Top Girls. Other theatres: It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street (Pasadena Playhouse); The City of Conversation (Ensemble Theatre Company); Bled for the Household Truth, The Super Variety Match Bonus Round, Cock (Rogue Machine); All My Sons (Matrix Theatre); Trying, On Golden Pond Grace & Glorie (The Colony Theatre); I Never Sang for My Father (New American Theatre); I Capture the Castle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). www.cameron-watson.com

Caryl Lesley Churchill is a British playwright whose work has been associated with surrealist and postmodern theatre. She was born in London on September 3, 1938. Her family moved to Montreal after World War II, where Churchill matriculated at the Trafalgar School for Girls. In 1957, Churchill moved back to England to attend Oxford University, where she earned a B.A. in English Literature in 1960. During her time at Oxford, Churchill wrote four plays – Downstairs, You’ve No Need to be Frightened, Having a Wonderful Time, and Easy Death – all of which were performed by Oxford student theater groups. In 1961, Churchill married David Harrister, with whom she has three sons. Churchill started her post-college career writing radio and television dramas for the BBC. Her notable works from this era include The Ants (1962), Lovesick (1967) and Abortive(1971). In 1972, Churchill wrote her first stage play, Owners, which premiered at London’s Royal Court Theater. She became the resident dramatist there from 1974-1975. During the 1970s and 1980s, Churchill worked with numerous theater companies, including Joint Stock and Monstrous Regiment. She has won three Obie Awards for her plays Cloud Nine (1979), Top Girls (1982), and Serious Money (1987), and two Susan Smith Blackburn prizes for Fen (1984) and Serious Money. During the 1990s and 2000s, she continued to write plays and more experimental works such as Hotel (1997), a collaborative sung ballet set in a hotel room, and Love and Information (2012), an experimental collage of 100 characters performing over 50 short, fragmentary episodes. Churchill’s drama is widely recognized for abandoning realist approaches to theater in favor of surrealist experimentation, postmodern exploration of language, and an emphasis on the sexual politics and legacies of feminism. She draws upon Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud's experimental approaches to theater which consider plays to be a political art form with the power to transform false senses of reality. Churchill is associated with Socialist Theater and left wing critical responses to the policies of Margaret Thatcher. Churchill wrote Top Girls during Thatcher’s rule, and it explores the complicated relationship between capitalism and feminism. Churchill has translated and published a version of Seneca’s Thyestes, and an adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play.