90403: Santa Monica Plucker

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.

Marcelo, a founding member of ANTAEUS in 1991, performed in Three Days In The Country, Henry IV Part I, You Can't Take It With You, The Wood Demon, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Trial by Jury, Patience, Of Mice and Men, to name a few. Other Theater: Mark Taper Forum, Yale Rep, Milwaukee Rep, The Old Globe, The Colony Theatre, New Mexico Rep, Taper Too, and Ojai Playwright’s Festival. He received an Ovation award for San Fran Scapin, adapted from Moliere’s Scapin.  Marcelo’s many TV, Film and Voiceover credits can be viewed at Marcelo Tubert IMDB or his website marcelotubert.com. Argentinian born, Marcelo and his multi-talented wife Lori are the proud parents of two amazing daughters, Emily, and Sarah. His philosophy: Live Simply, Remain Grateful!

Kavi is excited to join Antaeus for The Zip Code Plays as Mina in Plucker. She has been keeping busy over Zoom during this quarantine in Anna Mathias’s play Get Me to the Zoom On Time (Skylight Theatre Live); Michelle Kholos Brooks’s Privilege (Rogue Machine Theatre’s Around The Clock); and starred in Aarti Mann’s two-person short film Augury with her daughter Leela, currently in post-production. Kavi also starred in the short No Man's Land which just premiered at the Dances With Film Festival in August 2020. In Spring 2019, Kavi starred Off-Broadway in the World Premiere of Rehana Lew-Mirza’s two-hander Hatefck at the WP Theatre with Sendhil Ramamurthy, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt. In Fall 2019, Kavi was part of Bekah Brunstetter’s Miss Lily Gets Boned (West Coast Premiere, Rogue Machine Theatre, Scenie Award: Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy-Drama). TV: Recurring roles on Just Add Magic: Mystery City (Amazon); Heroes (NBC); General Hospital (ABC); Mira; Royal Detective (VO); Criminal Minds; CSI:NY. Theater: Pentecost (Yale Rep); FreeOutgoing (EastWest Players); The Suppliant Women (Getty Viila/RM); A Midsummer Night's Dream & Henry V (Kingsmen Shakespeare). Film: Boris and the Bomb (feature, producer/lead, available on TUBI, Amazon Prime); Karma Calling; The Indian National Award-winning film Janani; LBEM (feature, starring, with Constance Wu, in post), and is shopping her TV pilot Hindju. Most important role to date… mother to Leela. Member of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. B.F.A., NYU. #ConversationsWithKavi KaviLadnier.com

Featured in Variety's "100 Writers to Watch" (2015), Nayna is a former NYC analyst, a former DC policy writer, a former SF international aid director, and a former touring dancer. Her plays have been staged and produced in numerous cities including: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Chicago. She is the recipient of an East West playwright scholarship and a Moving Arts Theater playwright fellowship. In 2017, Nayna was a semi-finalist or finalist with the O'Neill Conference, PlayPenn, Screenwriters Colony and Harold Clurman playwright-in-residence program. In 2018, Nayna was a semi-finalist with the WB TV Writers’ Program, a Sesame Street Writers Room fellow, a Notable Writer with the New York Television Festival and a Kenyon Conference full-scholarship recipient. She recently penned her first TV episode for an upcoming Netflix animated series, a Disney Jr. animated series, and has been awarded a development deal with Sesame Street. Currently, she is a staff writer on ABC’s new show The Baker and The Beauty. Born in Florida, raised in Virginia, and originally from India, Nayna has studied five languages, visited 22 countries, and worked in four industries. She received her B.S. in Economics and English at the University of Virginia, and her M.F.A. at Northwestern University. She suffers from Asian Girl Guilt Syndrome, Law&Order SVU rerun marathon binges (from which she has developed restless leg syndrome), and a tendency to misspell the word "syndrome."

Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx is an Ovation Award-nominated director and is Director of Cultural Programming at A Noise Within. He has served on the Latinx Theatre Commons National Advisory Committee, the LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Rules Committee, and as a nominator for The Kilroy List. Muñoz-Proulx has also worked as Associate Producer of Skylight Theatre, Vice Chair of Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and Artistic Assistant at East West Players. He has adjudicated on grant panels for the California Arts Council and the LA County Department of Arts and Culture. Muñoz-Proulx has also served as faculty to the USC MFA Acting program.