Uncle Vanya

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

Los Angeles theater credits include work at Chalk Rep, South Coast Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, The Old Globe, Rubicon, La Mirada, Laguna Playhouse, Theatre @ Boston Court, Theater of N.O.T.E. Outside of The Southland: 11 seasons with The Chautauqua Theatre Co. (7 as Associate Artistic Director), four seasons with The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, as well as stints at Berkeley Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theatre and others. Andrew has recurred or guest starred on over 30 television series and recently appeared in Straight Outta Compton, Taken 3, and Interstellar. Andrew teaches at USC and UC Irvine and is a graduate of the NYU Graduate Acting Program and Brown University.

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.

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.

Dawn Didawick is a founding member. Her varied career has taken her from New York to Europe in the classics and new works. Broadway: All My Sons (Tony Award Best Revival), Regional credits include Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Long Wharf Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Globe Theater in San Diego, Alabama Shakespeare Theater, ART, Seattle, St Louis, and South Coast Repertory Theaters.  Her roles ranged from Dee Dee in Marsha Norman’s The Laundromat to Juliet, Hermia, Titania, Gonzala in works of Shakespeare to Amy and Clara in The Show Off, both productions with one of her theater mentors, Jean Stapelton. She has appeared with her husband, Harry Groener, in many productions including Caught in the Net at The Coconut Grove and Regrets Only at The Cape Playhouse.  Her participation in the development of new works included stints at New Harmony, The Gathering and The Colony (both in Montana). She serves as an honorary board member of The Alpine Theater Project in Whitefish, Montana, and has served as a long time board member of The Antaeus Company. At ANTAEUS: The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Bear, Pera Palas, Autumn Garden, The Seagull, The Crucible, Uncle Vanya, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (multiple nominations and Stage Raw Award for Supporting Female Performance for “Big Mama” )and Three Days in the Country. Over the years she has participated in many Classic Fest readings and workshops, including her favorite as Amanda in Glass Menagerie. Representative film and T.V. credits: Erin Brockovich, Christmas with the Kranks, The Amateurs, I Am I, Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse, Hart of Dixie and Pretty Little Liars.

Harry Groener is a founding member At ANTAEUS: Pera Palas, Mother Courage, The Bear in Chekhov x Four, and the title role in King Lear (Drama Circle Award), Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Ovation, Drama Critics Circle and Stage Raw Awards), Three Days In The Country and Uncle Vanya. His multiple Broadway and Off Broadway credits include Crazy For You (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations), Cats (Tony Nomination), Oh Brother!, Oklahoma! (Tony Nomination and received Theater World Award), Harrigan and the Hart, Is there Life After High school, Sleight of Hand, Sunday in the Park with George, Imaginary Friends, and Spamalot. Other Nominations and Awards: Ovation Award Equivocation, Geffen Playhouse, Jefferson Award (The Madness of King George, Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Jefferson Award Nominations: Cyrano De Bergerac, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, William Tecumseh Sherman, The March, Steppenwolf Theater. Other recent credits include: Lincoln and LBJ in Appomattox, The Guthrie Theater; The Train Driver, Long Wharf Theater. Film and Television partial: About Schmidt, Patch Adams, and Road to Perdition, Cure For Wellness, Dear John, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI, How I Met Your Mother, Medium, Bones, Las Vegas, Breaking Bad, The West Wing and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager, and Enterprise.

AT ANTAEUS: Eight Nights, Uncle Vanya, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Chekhov X 4. Broadway: Brooklyn Boy (MTC/SCR). Regional: The Great Leap (ACT-SF); Underneath the Lintel (Geffen Playhouse); After the Revolution (Center Stage Baltimore) Above the Fold (Pasadena Playhouse); Parfumerie(The Wallis: Inaugural Production); Coney Island Christmas(Geffen Playhouse); Future Thinking, Circle Mirror Transformation, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Wild Oats, (South Coast Rep); and others including productions for CTG, East/West Players, LATheatreCenter, Grove Shakespeare, El Teatro Campesino, The Odyssey Theatre, Stages Theatre Center (where he served as Managing Artistic Director 2000-2003), and Theatre@Boston Court. He has performed in dozens of plays recorded for LATheatreWorks. 
Arye has taught at the USC School of Dramatic Arts, and was extremely fortunate to have studied acting with Lee Shallat-Chemel, Roy London, Jose Quintero, and James Wilson.
 Arye’s film/TV credits can be found here:
imdb.me/aryegross. AryeGross.com

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.

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.

Jeffrey has been acting professionally for over 25 years.  He received his MFA in Acting at Southern Methodist University and began his career on the stage both in New York and regional theatres. He was seen in Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out at The Geffen as well as the premiere of Robert Schenkkan’s Lewis And Clark Reach The Euphrates at the Mark Taper Forum.  His other regional credits include The Old Globe, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and many others.  His New York credits include Shakespeare In The Park, The Public Theatre and CSC.  He has been a member of The Antaeus Company since the beginning and has participated in many productions and projects. Jeffrey’s film and television work has spanned his entire career including seasons on 24, Desperate Housewives, Body Of Proof, Rake, Killer Women and the films Tron, Home Of The Brave, Surfer Dude, Flicka and Flight 93 for A&E. Other work: HBO’s And The Band Played On and Citizen Cohn, as well as Arrow, Malibu Country, Cloud 9, Once And Again, Ask Me Again, Providence, Apollo 11, Quiz Show, Ruby, Working Girl, Holy Matrimony, Mighty Ducks 3, and many others.

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).

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.

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.

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.

At ANTAEUS: Uncle Vanya, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Paul Baird is an actor, writer, dancer, and musician. Though born in Santa Cruz, he  has spent much of his life performing while living abroad in Ivory Coast, Egypt, and El Salvador. His favorite productions include Cabaret (Emcee), Becoming Julia Morgan (BACC Best Ensemble), Odysseus (Greek Tour), his award-winning co-written play Ni Una Más (Voice 6), El Grande Circus De Coca-Cola (Ovation Award Best Variety Show) and his two autobiographical solo shows My Brother’s Keeper and The White Knuckle Driver. Award-winning films include EBX 3000, Jesus Blues, and Undocumented.  ThePaulBaird.com.

Mimi Cozzens is delighted to be making her debut at Antaeus. She was last seen at the Sierra Madre Playhouse in 4000 Miles and the Theatre@Boston Court in The Dinosaur Within. A recipient of Dramalogue, LA Weekly and ADA Awards for local performances, Ms Cozzens is a veteran of Broadway: (Children of a Lesser God and I Ought To Be In Pictures); National Tours: (Prisoner of Second Avenue, Same Time Next Year, Morning's At Seven andTribute); Regional Theatres: (Philadelphia Drama Guild, Mark Taper Forum, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Long Beach Theatre Center, Pasadena Playhouse, The L.A. Shakespeare Festival and the Laguna Playhouse). Recent TV appearances include The Mindy Project, Chasing Life, Greek and in the feature films: The Master and the soon to be released The Last Tour. And let’s not forget that 60 second art form known as the TV commercial.  www.mimicozzens.com

Clay has been an actor on stage and screen for the last 35 years. He also works around town as a carpenter and musician. He is thrilled to be working with Antaeus for the first time in a play he’s loved for years. Some credits include: Justified, Deadwood, all three CSI shows, Lions for Lambs and even Twin Peaks.

Morlan returns to the stage after a three year absence to concentrate on his music. He plays, sings and is the principal songwriter for the Celtic band Staggering Jack. He previously appeared with Antaeus as Kent in King Lear. He worked at the Fountain Theatre many times in the Athol Fugard plays Exits and Entrances, Blue Iris, Victory and The Train Driver. Also at the Fountain: After the Fall and Boys in the Band. He can currently be seen online in the web series Lucky Jay and the indie feature Inverse. He has worked on many different LA stages and has won multiple Ovation, LADCC and LA Weekly awards. Happy to be back “guesting” for Antaeus.