Run Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one 10 minute intermission.
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Sunday, February 16 at 2:00pm - After Words: A casual post-show discussion with Artistic Director Nike Doukas, exploring how the show resonated, raising new questions, and continuing the conversation.
Monday, March 3 at 8:00pm - Meet the Artists: A post-show conversation with the actors, where they share insights, behind-the-scenes stories, and answer your questions.
Separated from her twin brother in a shipwreck, Viola is forced to make her own way in the kingdom of Illyria — where, disguised as a man, she discovers unrequited passion, double-crossings, hilarity, and yellow stockings.
Directed by Antaeus Company member Armin Shimerman (The Crucible, Measure For Measure) William Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece dissects Love in all its many forms. Play on!
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John Allee is an Ovation Award nominee and ensemble member of Antaeus, where he has appeared in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Cloud 9, Uncle Vanya, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It with You, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, and more. Other Stage Highlights: The Mystery of Irma Vep, A Man for All Seasons, The Man Who Came to Dinner, 33 Variations (Actors Co-op); Much Ado About Nothing (Kingsmen Shakespeare Co); Little Shop of Horrors (Arizona Theatre Company); Assassins (Los Angeles Theatre Center); Alone Together (Pasadena Playhouse); A Midsummer Night's Dream (LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera); One Thousand Cranes (Mark Taper Forum); and Chaplin (Pre-Broadway). On TV, he played Pasha on the Starz series Flesh and Bone. Podcast audiences can hear him on Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene. John is also an award-winning singer-songwriter and recording artist. His latest album is Past Imperfect. Johnallee.com
AT ANTAEUS: Cloud 9. Other theaters: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep, Kansas City Rep, Theatreworks, A Noise Within, Theatricum Botanicum. Film includes: Windows On The World, Cheerleader Murders, Love On The Vines. TV includes: Animal Kingdom, The Rookie, SEAL Team, NCIS: New Orleans, The Good Doctor, The Red Road and others. Instagram: @iamdaviddesantos
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: Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, You Can't Take It With You; Classicsfests Readings: Metamorphoses, The Trojan Women, The Rover, Along the River, Almost Winter, The Life of Galileo, Caesar and Cleopatra, The African Women. Other Theater: A Noise Within Resident Artist: Gem of the Ocean (Ant Ester), Argonautika (Hera), Mad Woman of Chaillot (Mme. Josephine/Dr. Jardin). Regional: Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Denver Center, The Old Globe, Kirk Douglas. Local: Theatre @ Boston Court, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, LA Women's Shakespeare Company, Lower Depth Theatre. International: The Father (Stockholm, Sweden). Some TV/Film: Nana, S.W.A.T., The Unit, Parenthood, ER, Home Invasion, Southland, Threat Matrix, Brooklyn South, City of Angeles, The Young and the Restless. Artistic Associate Producer at Lower Depth Theatre.
At ANTAEUS : As You Like It. Theater credits include: A Streetcar Named Desire (Boston Court) Handball (Urban Theatre Movement & NYC Summer Stage), Romeo and Juliet (African American Shakespeare Company). Recent TV/Film: Archenemy, Shameless, Animal Kingdom, Ripper. Luis is a member of Urban Theatre Movement and Ensemble Studio Theatre and is also a member of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. Follow @authenticLKD
At ANTAEUS: Twelfth Night, The Little Foxes, The Hothouse, The Liar, Macbeth, Peace in Our Time. Other Theater includes: Denver Center for the Performing Arts, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, New World Stages, Boston Court Pasadena, Fountain Theatre, Moving Arts, Rogue Machine Theatre, The Road Theatre Company, Skylight Theatre Company and The Troubadour Theater Company.
Film credits include: The Wolf and the Lamb, Alien Vacation, Sisters, Paper Marriage, Blonde, The 11th Green, Bad Samaritan, Fishing Naked, New Year’s Eve and The Soloist. TV includes: Good American Family, Suits LA, Good Trouble, NCIS: Los Angeles, Batwoman, Mom, Dynasty, Little Fires Everywhere, Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Mad Men, Eli Stone, Everwood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson’s Creek. Education: Northwestern University. Spouse: Heather Allyn. Pug: Houston. robnagle.com @nagdoggie
Liza’s recent stage work includes Lady Macbeth at Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Yolanda/Jody in the New York and Los Angeles Premieres of Pulp Shakespeare (Cherry Lane, SoHo Playhouse, and Theatre Asylum), Lisa in Collected Stories at The Group Rep, Janetta in the World Premiere of The Boomerang Effect at the Odyssey, Lusia in A Shayna Maidel at ICT, and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at Kentucky Shakespeare. She has been seen on television in recurring roles on The Following and Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures, as well as Grey’s Anatomy, Lie to Me, Monk, Big Love, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and Alias. Her film work includes Night Eyes, Salvation Road, and Paul Verhoeven’s Zwartboek (Black Book), which was filmed in her native country, The Netherlands. She is the co-star/producer of the Bard tribute series, This Week in Shakespeare.
At ANTAEUS: Henry IV, several ClassicsFests, many Workshops and Readings. In Los Angeles theatre: Antony, Antony and Cleopatra, (Theatricum Botanicum); Estragon, Waiting for Godot; Scrooge, A Christmas Carol; Malvolio, Twelfth Night; Vershinin, The Three Sisters; Arnolphe, The School For Wives; title roles in Cymbeline, Tartuffe, Merchant of Venice, among many others, at A Noise Within. Loads of NYC and regional theatre roles including leads in The Normal Heart, Talley’s Folly, and The Sound of Teeth. Directed The Cherry Orchard, As You Like It, Miss Witherspoon, The Learned Ladies, among bunches of other plays. Has recurred and guest starred on tons of TV shows, like Charmed, Burn Notice, and Alias, had leading roles in many films and TV movies (Alice in Wonderland, The Lord of Illusions), and been heard in reams of animated projects, such as The Lorax, and scads of commercials.
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.
(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.
Christopher Scott Murillo
Scenic Designer
Kate Bergh
Costume Designer
Vickie J. Scott
Lighting Designer
Carter Dean
Sound Designer
John McElveney
Properties Designer
John Allee
Composer/Music Director
John Allee is an Ovation Award nominee and ensemble member of Antaeus, where he has appeared in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Cloud 9, Uncle Vanya, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It with You, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, and more. Other Stage Highlights: The Mystery of Irma Vep, A Man for All Seasons, The Man Who Came to Dinner, 33 Variations (Actors Co-op); Much Ado About Nothing (Kingsmen Shakespeare Co); Little Shop of Horrors (Arizona Theatre Company); Assassins (Los Angeles Theatre Center); Alone Together (Pasadena Playhouse); A Midsummer Night's Dream (LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera); One Thousand Cranes (Mark Taper Forum); and Chaplin (Pre-Broadway). On TV, he played Pasha on the Starz series Flesh and Bone. Podcast audiences can hear him on Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene. John is also an award-winning singer-songwriter and recording artist. His latest album is Past Imperfect. Johnallee.com
Jen Albert
Intimacy Director
Carter Vickers
Scenic Assistant
Jessaica Shields
Production Stage Manager
Kaite Brandt
Production Dramaturg/Assistant Director
Kaite is pleased to be working with Antaeus for the first time. As an actor: Warriors for Peace Theatre, Chase What Flies, the Unlikely Shakespeare Company, GreenRoom Theater, Downtown Repertory Theater and the Sierra Madre Shakespeare Festival. Additionally, Kaite holds a degree in directing and teaches Shakespeare and the Theatrical Arts.
Jessica Osorio
Assistant Stage Manager
Frank Ishman
Artwork
*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