Women Beware Women

Antaeus Black Box

Written by: Thomas Middleton, Adapted by John Allee
Directed by: John Allee

Bianca is a young Venetian “from parents great in wealth” who elopes with the poor Leantio, a Florentine. She soon draws the attention of the Duke of Florence, who attempts to woo her with the help of the widow Livia. Meanwhile, Livia’s brother is tormented because he is in love with their niece. In a society where the worst excesses of unbridled desires reign, what will befall them all?

Middleton was a collaborator of Shakespeare’s who wrote in a wide variety of genres and who had his work performed on a greater variety of stages than anyone of the period. Women Beware Women is considered to be one of his masterpieces.

Cast

Julia Fletcher has been a theater professional for more than 35 years, working in new play development, as an adapter of the works of Shakespeare, as a director, an Equity stage manager, and a master teacher. She trained and worked as an actor with the American Conservatory Theatre, and has performed with the Old Globe, the Intiman, San Jose Rep, ACT/Seattle, Antaeus, P.C.P.A., and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, among others. She was also the Founding Artistic Director of the Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Bo has been a proud member of Antaeus for a decade now appearing in productions of Measure for Measure as Lucio/Juliet, Cloud 9 (LADCC and Stage Raw Best Actor Winner), Henry IV, The Liar, The Crucible (Ovation nomination), the title role in Macbeth, The Seagull and The Malcontent. Other LA theater includes Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing with SOC and Arthur Miller’s The Price at I.C.T., Henslowe in Shakespeare in Love at South Coast Rep, King Charles III at Pasadena Playhouse and Building The Wall at the Fountain Theatre. He has also worked at The Skylight Theatre, Ensemble Theater Company, La Mirada, Laguna Playhouse, The Geffen, Disney Hall, LATheatreWorks, Theater @Boston Court, The Hollywood Bowl and A Noise Within where he received two Ovation nominations. He has worked in numerous theaters in NY including a year in the Off-Broadway Way hit As Bee’s in Honey Drown at the Lucile Lortel. He has appeared in regional theatre’s through out the country including The Long Wharf, Yale Rep, The Shakespeare Theatre, Vienna’s English Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, The Old Globe and many others. He has numerous film and television credits including Modern Family, VEEP and the HBO movie All The Way starring Bryan Cranston. He is a graduate of UCLA and received his Masters at Yale School of Drama.
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At ANTAEUS: Hedda Gabler, Macbeth, American Tales, Pera Pelas. Other Theater: Sondheim UnScripted, The Western UnScripted, Chekhov UnScripted, Shakespeare UnScripted (Impro Theatre); The Belle of Belfast (Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA); The Children (The Theatre @ Boston Court); Opus (FountainTheatre – StageSceneLA Award: Best Actor); Major Barbara, An Italian Straw Hat (Garland Award: Best Actor), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, School for Wives, Nostalgia, A Christmas Carol (South Coast Repertory); A Distant Shore (Center Theatre Group). TV/Film credits include: With Honors, Crossing the Bridge, Rockabye, Close to Home (recurring), Charmed, NYPD Blue, Law & Order. Mr. Blinkoff received his MFA from The Yale School of Drama.
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At Antaeus: The Cripple of Inishmaan, King LearPera Palas. Other Theatres: 12 Angry Men (Laguna Playhouse), iWitness (Mark Taper Forum), Mother Courage (Theatre @ Boston Court), Clutter (The Colony Theatre), Boise USA (Matrix Theatre), The Men from the Boys (Fountain Theatre), A Clockwork Orange (Greenway Court Theatre) TV/Film: DC’s TitansCastleThe Rookie, Take TwoMacGyverFar Cry 5Legion, Mad MenArmy WivesGeneral Hospital, Cold Case, Hollywoodland,  Training: BA, Northern Arizona University;  MFA, Carnegie-Mellon University and The Moscow Art Theatre. Member: AEA, The Actors Studio.
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A member since 2000, Mark has been seen on the Antaeus stage in The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Malcontent and Peace In Our Time. Los Angeles area work includes: Grail Project, Big Shot, TRACK 3 & The Treatment (Theatre Movement Bazaar); Little Black Shadows (South Coast Rep); Mirette (MainStreet Theatre). Broadway: The Visit w/Jane Alexander and Harris Yulin, Off-Broadway: Sharon:The Musical, adapted/directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald. A Juilliard School graduate, Mark has studied Shakespeare in Oxford, Chekov in Moscow and musical theatre in Ann Arbor. Proud Equity member since 1992. More delicious tidbits: markdoerr.com
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At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, As You Like It, Macbeth. World Premieres: Kingdom City, A Lonely Boy’s Guide to Survival… (La Jolla Playhouse). Other credits include The Lion in Winter (Laguna Playhouse); Ah! Wilderness (A Noise Within); 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Palos Verdes Performing Arts); Carrie the Musical (La Mirada Theater); Hamlet the Rock Musical (El Portal Theater); Cabaret (Celebration Theater). Ian trained a the University of Southern California and the British American Drama Academy.
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Ann Noble is a Chicago Native with over twenty-five years of professional experience in the theatre as an actor, playwright, director and educator.  In addition to teaching at Antaeus, she currently teaches at Berg Studios (Technique I & II) as well as at the Hyperion Arts Center/Studio A Dance (Scene Study).  As a director, her recent credits include Smoke with LifeChild Productions and Moonshine Mamas with Two Heads Are Better Productions.  With Antaeus, she recently directed two of the Classic Sunday Readings of Shaw’s St. Joan and Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, which she is slated to co-direct in its full production this winter with Armin Shimerman.  As an actor, her credits with Antaeus are Hedda Gabler, The Crucible, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time, The Liar and The Malcontent.  Her other theatre acting credits include: BLISS, or Emily Post is Dead  with Moving Arts; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, and Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story of Barack Obama’s Mother all with LA’s LGBT Center; Other Desert Cities with ICT of Long Beach; American Dead with Rogue Machine; Orange Flower Water with the Victory; Belfry with Malibu Playhouse; An Ideal Husband with Sierra Madre Playhouse; The Fall To Earth, Bedroom Farce and London’s Scars with the Odyssey; Betrayal with ETC of Santa Barbara; Sidhe, And Neither Have I Wings To Fly, The Friendly Hour, Big Death & Little Death, Shove and Bunbury all with the Road; and over six productions with South Coast Rep.  She also teaches acting and writing to incarcerated/at risk youth at several schools/institutions around LA including Homeboy Industries, and also works as a theatre director/instructor for youth at LA’s LGBT Center and LA’s Museum of the Holocaust.  She is the current Casting Associate for Antaeus, and, also, will be directing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar for Warriors For Peace this fall.
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At ANTAEUS: Hamlet, Cloud 9, As You Like It, Henry IV, Part One, The Curse of Oedipus. Other Theater: Pasadena Playhouse, CTG - The Kirk Douglas and Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, International City Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Disney Concert Hall, 6th Act, Chalk Rep, The Blank, EST/LA, Boston Court, Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Road, Chautauqua Theater Company (NY), Center for New Performance/Huntington Gardens, numerous Off- and Off-Off-B’way. Film: Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon I & II, Taken 3, Bloody Bridget, Zombie Strippers, Deceit. TV: The Good Doctor, Jane the Virgin (recurring), Orville, Scandal, Castle, 90210, Medium, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Victorious, Chemistry, As the World Turns (recurring), among others. Emmy Award Winner for When Things Get Small. VO work in video games, TV/online narration, ads, audio drama podcasts, dubbing, and educational programming. Faculty member at CalArts School of Theater. M.F.A.: UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse, B.A.: Duke (Magna cum laude).
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At ANTAEUS: Debut. Theater credits include: Kiss (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble), Lear’s Daughters (Third Culture Theatre at 2nd Stage), Rocket to the Moon (Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater), Our Country’s Good (Art of Acting), and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Art of Acting).
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Peter Mendoza was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He studied theater, stage combat, and dance at East Los Angeles College. At ANTAEUS: Belyaev in Three Days In The Country. Other Theater: Oscar in Sweat (Mark Taper Forum), Elliot in Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Oedipus in Oedipus El Rey (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Digital Stage), Henry Reyna in Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum, U/S); Hason in Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (The Rep. Theatre of St. Louis); Rafael in La Piedra Oscura; Don Carlos in Los Empeños de una Casa, Paco in Salon Mexico, Don Juan Tenorio in El Burlador de Sevilla (Bilingual Foundation of the Arts). TV: Perry Mason (HBO), From Scratch (Netflix), Shooter (USA), NCIS (CBS), Snowfall (FX), Casual (HULU), On My Block (Netflix). Film: Dead Bullet, Nathan's Kingdom, Parasites, Tecato, Hello to Never, Ana Maria in Novella Land.
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Sam Peurach

Servants, Gentlemen, Hymen

Production Team

John Allee

Adapted by
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

Thomas Middleton

Writer
*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