Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black & White

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

Belen began working with Antaeus in 2011, playing Gladys in their award-winning production of Noel Coward’s Peace In Our Time. Also at ANTAEUS: Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, The Curse of Oedipus, Shakespeare’s King Phycus, The Thin Man and many ClassicsFests. In 2013, Antaeus took the reading of Allan Miller’s The Fox to the Annenberg in Palm Springs with Coyote Stageworks – Belen received a Desert Star Award nomination for Best Lead Actress for her performance. In Los Angeles, Belen has performed at The Odyssey, The Hollywood Fringe Festival (Shakepeare’s King Phycus – Best Comedy Nominee and Winner, Best of Fringe Extension 2013) and with Improvatorium’s Sunday Brunch Company. Originally from the Bay Area, Belen has performed in many theaters, including the historic Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Favorite roles include Ilse in Spring Awakening, Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest and Bananas in House of Blue Leaves. She holds a B.A. in French Studies and Theater from Mills College. Additionally, Belen studied Dramatic Literature at University of Paris X (Nanterre) and trained at L’École Nationale du Cirque Annie Fratellini in Paris, France.  Television credits include Space: Above & Beyond, The Net and Nash Bridges. She is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

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.

Previously with Antaeus, Leo has appeared in The Hothouse, Three Days of Rain, and Wedding Band. Other credits include: If I Forget at the Fountain, This Wonderful Life at Rogue Machine (playing every resident of Bedford Falls), Everything That Never Happened and The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll at Boston Court Pasadena, Mysterious Circumstances at the Geffen Playhouse, How to Write a New Book for the Bible at Berkeley Rep and Seattle Rep, A Perfect Wedding at the Kirk Douglas, Hamlet in Jessica Kubzansky’s acclaimed production, and performances at South Coast Rep, The Old Globe, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Actors Theater of Louisville, Pasadena Playhouse, Ahmanson Theatre, The Intiman, PICT, Playwright’s Arena, ACT’s The Strand, Alley Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons. Founding member, New York’s Elevator Repair Service. Awards include an Obie (Heather Woodbury’s Tale of 2Cities), and Stage Raw, LA Ovations, Ticketholder, Bay Area Critics, and LA Drama Critics Circle nominations and awards. He shares the 2023 LADCC Gordon Davidson Award and the Stage Raw “Queen of the Angels” awards for co-leadership of the SB1116 Coalition. TV/Film includes the lead in the award-winning indie feature film The Maestro, now streaming on Amazon Prime.

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.

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.

KAREN MALINA WHITE : Antaeus: You Can’t Take It With You, The Liar, The Wedding Band, As You Like It and Eight Nights;  The Fountain Theatre: The Ballad of Emmett Till (LA Drama Critics Circle Award, LA Ovation Award), Citizen and Runaway Home;  LATW: The Mountaintop (Tour), Hedda Gabler, Little Foxes, Behind The Sheet and Pipeline;  International City Theatre: The Old Settler  (NAACP nomination); Rogue Machine: the world premiere of In the Valley of the Shadow;  South Coast Rep: originated the role of Ernestine in the West Coast premiere of Crumbs From the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage  (NAACP Image Award);  Mixed Blood Theatre:  Permanent Collection, Salt Fish N’ Bakes, and Distracted; Television:  Netflix's DAHMER, Hallmark's Tis' The Season to be Merry, and Love For Real, BRUH, Mom, Cherish The Day, Lodge 49, Raven’s Home, Kidding, Shameless, Snowfall, Animal Kingdom, How to Get Away with Murder, Veep, Mike and Molly, The Mentalist, A Different World, Malcom n Eddie, The Cosby Show,  AND Her highly recognizable voice is featured on The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder on Disney Plus as the character of Dijonay. 

Buck Zachary is a graduate of Illinois State University, home of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. He comes to Los Angeles from Chicago and is proud to have found an artistic home in The Antaeus Company.

At ANTAEUS: Wedding Band. Other Theater: Sunset Baby (NAACP Best Lead Actress Nomination), Desire Under The Elms (Odyssey Theatre, NAACP Theatre award Best Supporting Female nomination), Three Sisters After Chekhov (Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble). TV: Alex, Inc, Key and Peele, Castle, Criminal Minds, Dexter, 1600 Penn, Happy Endings, Mr. Sunshine, The Mentalist, Make It or Break It, The Unit, Silver Lake. Film: Out Of Time, Undercover Bridesmaid, Raven's Touch, The Last Letter, The Brothers, Runt. Creator of the Series Bougie Dilemma on Amazon. Lifetime member of The Actors Studio.

At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, The Seagull, Macbeth, The Wedding Band. Theater: Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum), Tarzan, The Musical (3DTheatricals), Superior Donuts (Geffen Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre), The Odd Couple (Laguna Playhouse), Metamorphoses (Ensemble Theatre Company), Bars and Measures (The Theatre @ Boston Court), Bengal Tiger At The Baghdad Zoo (Ion Theater Company, San Diego Critic’s Circle Best Featured Actor). TV: Brooklyn Nine Nine, Good Fortune, Drake and Josh, Victorious, The Shield, As The World Turns. Brian is on the acting faculty at AMDA, College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts and has a BFA in acting from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Ms. McClain has worked in all aspects of the theater discipline, recurred and guest starred on TV and numerous films.  Two-time Ovation Award, LA Drama Critics Award, and NAACP Theatre Award nominee for Wedding Band and Raisin in the Sun. Has worked at such notable theaters as The Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Alliance Theatre, Alley Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Two River Theatre, Musical Theatre West, Syracuse Stage, McCarter Theatre, A.R.T., Spoleto Festival, New York Shakespeare Theatre, 2nd Stage, N.E.C., New Federal Theatre, Classic Theatre Company, Hudson Guild, Billie Holiday Theatre, Coconut Grove, A Noise Within.  Directorial credits include: The Play that Goes Wrong, Cabaret, Spring Awakening, Ain’t Misbehavin,’  Breath and Imagination, Flyin’ West, Spunk, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, The Colored Museum, For Colored Girls, Dancing Lessons, Intimate Apparel, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Fantasticks, and In the Continuum.

Theatre: Wedding Band (Nelson), Abbamemnon (Menalaus), Fleetwood Macbeth (MacDuff), Letters From Zora (Richard Wright voice). Television: The Young and The Restless (recurring), Criminal Minds, Scandal, Days of Our Lives. Jason earned his MFA in acting from the University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Arts. www.turnertwins.com

Gregg T. Daniel most recently directed, “End of the Line” by Peppur Chambers (Antaeus, Zip Code Plays, Season 2), The Road Theatre Co’s. season premiere of Harrison Davis Rivers,”This Bitter Earth”(recorded on multiple cameras). Other credits include August Wilson’s, “Gem of the Ocean” A Noise Within (2020 Ovation Nominee-Best Production of a Play), Lanie Robertson’s, “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” & Katori Hall’s, “The Mountaintop” Garry Marshall Theatre. West Coast premieres of Mfoniso Udofia’s, “Her Portmanteau” Boston Court Theatre & Tearrance Arvelle Chisolm’s,”Br’er Cotton” Lower Depth Theatre. With Rogue Machine, Lorraine Hansberry’s,”Les Blancs” (Ovation-nominated, Best Director), the L.A. premiere of Greg Kalleres’, “Honky” (nominated Best Director, Comedy), Lorraine Hansberry’s, ”A Raisin in the Sun” at A Noise Within (Ovation nominated, Best Director) & a revival of Alice Childress', “Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White” Antaeus Company (Winner Stage Raw Award–Best Revival, Best Ensemble). Gregg is the Artistic Director/Founding member of Lower Depth Theatre (Lower-Depth.com). He is married to actress, Veralyn Jones.