Antaeus Theatre Company Presents

By Directed by Casey Stangl

Scenic Designer Costume Designer Nina Caussa A. Jeffrey Schoenberg Lighting Designer Sound Designer Karyn D. Lawrence Jeff Gardner** Props Designer Wigs & Hair Designer Katie Iannitello Jessica Mills Accent Coach Assistant Director/Dramaturg Nike Doukas Rachel Berney Needleman Production Stage Manager Heather Gonzalez

Ensemble Rhonda Aldrich*, Tony Amendola*, John Apicella*, Kristen Ariza*, Ben Atkinson, Erin Barnes, John Bobek*, Kendra Chell*, Shannon Lee Clair*, Eve Gordon*, Jazzlyn K. Luckett, Abigail Marks*, Desirée Mee Jung*, Lynn Milgrim*, Elyse Mirto*, Cindy Nguyen, Krystel Roche , Paul Stanko, Brian Tichnell

*Member, Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule.

** Artistic Directors’ Note

Welcome to the continuation of our 2018/19 season. We’re so glad you’ve joined us!

One of the most exciting things about being a company of actors inspired by the classics is discovering a true hidden gem — a play or a writer that most people aren’t familiar with. Well, we believe we’ve found a real treasure: A play, like many other plays by women of that period, that didn’t receive its due, simply because it was written by a .

Casey Stangl, one of our favorite directors, came across British suffragist Cicely Hamilton’s Diana of Dobson’s several years ago and brought it to us and we immediately included it in one of our ClassicsFest readings. It was very successful and we all felt like it had a timely message. Well, little did we know that the issues the play delves into would become even more urgent in today’s world. As one of Diana’s compatriots in the shop says, “It will all be the same in a hundred years.” We think this is the perfect time to rediscover Hamilton’s wit, her sparkling language, and her sharp insight into a number of social ills.

We believe Diana of Dobson’s is a play everyone should know, and that Cicely Hamilton should come to the fore when we contemplate writers of her age. Unearthing hidden gems — particularly work by women and other underserved voices — helps us as we continue to explore our definition of what makes a “classic.”

We also hope you’ll join us for our next show, Bertolt Brecht’s masterwork, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by Antaeus Company member Stephanie Shroyer.

At Antaeus, we love to run the gamut from masterpieces to hidden gems to new works. We’re so glad you’re on the journey of discovery with us.

Cheers!

Bill Brochtrup & Kitty Swink Co-Artistic Directors

Cast of Characters MISS SMITHERS Kristen Ariza, Desirée Mee Jung KITTY BRANT: Erin Barnes, Cindy Nguyen MISS JAY: Kendra Chell, Krystel Roche DIANA MASSINGBERD Abigail Marks MISS MORTON: Shannon Lee Clair, Jazzlyn K. Luckett MISS PRINGLE/MRS. CANTELUPE: Rhonda Aldrich, Eve Gordon MRS. WHYTE-FRASER/OLD WOMAN: Lynn Milgrim, Elyse Mirto SIR JABEZ GRINLEY: Tony Amendola, John Apicella CAPTAIN THE HON. VICTOR BRETHERTON: John Bobek, Brian Tichnell POLICE CONSTABLE FELLOWES/WAITER: Ben Atkinson, Paul Stanko

SETTING Act 1: A dormitory at Dobson’s Drapery Emporium, London Act 2 and 3: Hotel Engadine, Switzerland Act 4: The Thames Embankment

Time: 1908

Diana of Dobson’s is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

This Antaeus production is partner cast. Please see insert for this performance’s cast.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. For the Production Movement Coordinator Production Manager & Assistant Desirée Mee Jung Technical Director Technical Director Adam Meyer Cuyler Perry

Assistant Stage Manager Jessica Osorio Cicely Hamilton

Cicely Hamilton was born on June 15, 1872. By the age of 19, she had lost both her parents, and was sent out in the world to earn her living. She had been drawn to acting in school, and in 1893, she went to London to become an actress.

Though she found that her “face unfortunately was not of the type that induces theatrical managers to offer engagements on sight,” she was hired by a touring company in 1893 to play mostly character roles in the popular melodramas of the time.

She spent 10 years on tour, where she learned Cicely Hamilton, stagecraft and insight into the lives of the Photograph by Lena Connell people in the areas her companies played. She also saw that that men were generally paid more than women in the companies, and that the roles women were given to play were one-dimensional and unsatisfying.

In 1903, Hamilton returned to London to write. She became heavily involved in the movement for Women’s as a writer and speaker, writing the words to the Anthem,, though her “personal revolt was feminist rather than suffragist.” She worked for women’s enfranchisement primarily as a vehicle for achieving women’s equality in the professional and public spheres and their freedom to make choices for their lives beyond marriage and motherhood. Her Marriage as a Trade, written in 1909, develops the idea that women should be valued for their abilities not their sexual allure and that women must be able to provide for themselves at equal wages rather than rely on men to keep them. Many of her plays, including Diana of Dobson’s (1908), How the Vote was Won (1909) and Pageant of Great Women (1909) also deal with the question of women fighting for their place in the world. Hamilton also cofounded the Women’s Writer Suffrage League and the Actresses’ Franchise League which demanded equality of payment for men and women, an end to women being branded as immoral for going on the stage when men were not, and strong, complex parts for women.

In World War I, Hamilton served in the Scottish women’s ambulance unit and was administrator for a military hospital outside . From 1917-1919, she was a member of a repertory company that performed for the troops.

After the war she continued her work for equality, writing as a journalist and advocate, and becoming a director of the feminist journal Time and Tide. She campaigned for rights for children, widows, unmarried mothers, equal pay, birth control and abortion law reform.

She continued to write successful plays and books in multiple genres including a series of travelogues, meditations on totalitarianism, and one of the first science fiction novels written by a woman, inspired by the devastation she saw during World War I. She was awarded a civil-list pension for services to literature from the government in 1938. Hamilton died on December 6, 1952 at the age of 80.

Rachel Berney Needleman Dramaturg Diana’s World

The worth of Edwardian money in today’s dollars: 6 pence = $7.50 1 shilling (“a bob”) = $15 5 guineas = $1600 £13 pounds would be the equivalent of about $11,000 An income of £300 would be about $250,000 An income of £600 would be about $500,000 An income of £3600 would be about $3 million An income of £40,000 would be about $34 million

Prices of Paris fashions in Edwardian money (and today’s dollars): Gown: £20 ($6000) Hat: £10 ($3000) Silk Petticoat: £6 ($1800) Shoes: £2 ($600) Gloves: £1, 12s ($480) Handkerchief: 8s ($120) Total for one outfit: £40 ($12,000)

The typical day for a Shop Assistant in a Suburban London Draper’s (as described in Sweated Industry and the Minimum Wage by Clementina Black, 1907): Shop Assistants worked six days a week, with no work on Sunday. After waking, washing with cold water from a basin, and dressing, the women had 25 minutes for a breakfast of bread and butter and weak tea before starting work. Fourteen hours of physically and psychologically exhausting labor, with 30 minutes for their midday meal and 15 minutes for a 5:00 pm tea break.

A typical menu for the midday meal: Sunday : Pork. Monday : Beef, hot. Tuesday : Beef, cold. Wednesday : Mutton, hot. Thursday : Mutton, cold. Friday : Beef, hot. Saturday : Beef, cold, and resurrection pie.

Cold meat would be yesterday’s meat re-served. Resurrection pie is the week’s leftovers baked into a pie crust. After working until 9:30 p.m. (or, on Saturday nights, sometimes as late as 11:00 p.m.), they would have a Spartan supper and be free until bedtime. Lights out was 11:00 pm (and 12 midnight on Saturday) – anyone having a light on after that time would be discharged.

Some of the over 100 listed rules governing every detail of life and work: -Young ladies with soiled collars or cuffs, or otherwise appearing in business in an untidy manner, fine 3 pence ($3.75) -Gossiping, standing in groups, or lounging about in an unbusinesslike manner, fine 3 pence ($3.75) -Sitting down in business hours, fine 3 pence ($3.75) -Unnecessary talking and noise in bedrooms is strictly prohibited, fine 6 pence ($7.50) -No pictures, photos, etc. allowed to disfigure the walls. Anyone so doing will be charged with the repairs. -For losing copy of rules, fine 2 pence ($2.50)

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Rhonda Aldrich Tony Amendola

John Apicella Kristen Ariza

Ben Atkinson Erin Barnes

John Bobek Kendra Chell

Shannon Lee Clair Eve Gordon COMPANY - DIANA OF DOBSON’S

Jazzlyn K. Luckett Abigail Marks

Desirée Mee Jung Lynn Milgrim

Elyse Mirto Cindy Nguyen

Krystel Roche Paul Stanko

Brian Tichnell director at Berkeley Rep from 1980- ENSEMBLE: 1990. Directing Credits: Savages, Filumena, The Night of the Iguana RHONDA ALDRICH (MISS (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The PRINGLE/MRS. CANTELUPE): At Tempest, The Merchant of Venice ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan; (California Shakespeare Theater), Picnic; Henry IV, Part One; The All’s Well That Ends Well (Oregon Curse of Oedipus; Top Girls; The Shakespeare Festival). Film: Blow, Crucible; You Can’t Take It With Mask of Zorro, Annabelle, Meddler, You; The Autumn Garden; Tonight John Sayles’ Lonestar, and soon to be at 8:30; Mother Courage; Proof of released La Llorona. Television: I’m the Promise; Trial by Jury. She has Dying Up Here, Dexter (recurring), appeared Off-Broadway, regionally Shooter (recurring), NCIS, The at Milwaukee Repertory Theater Mentalist, Stargate SG-1 (Bra-Tac), and Pittsburgh Public Theater, and Continuum (Kagame series regular), locally at the Mark Taper Forum, Once Upon a Time (recurring as South Coast Repertory, The Los Gepetto), Castlevania. VO & MoCap: Angeles Theatre Center and at Walden Pond, World of Warcraft, numerous small theaters. Television: Fallout, Black Ops. Sequestered, The Middle, , Without a Trace, Star Trek: The JOHN APICELLA (SIR JABEZ Next Generation (recurring). Movies: GRINLEY): At ANTAEUS: The K-town Cowboys; Night of the Living Hothouse, The Curse of Oedipus, Dead 3D: Re-Animation; The Gods of You Can’t Take It With You, Mother Circumstance; Crocodile Dundee in Courage, Trial By Jury, Patience, Los Angeles; Bob Roberts; Welcome The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Home, Roxy Carmichael; the cult Wood Demon. A founding member classic Jailbird Rock, among others. and early co-artistic director. Other Stages: Hillary and Bill (Victory TONY AMENDOLA (SIR JABEZ Gardens Theater), The Imaginary GRINLEY) : At ANTAEUS: (Founding Invalid, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Member) Hedda Gabler (Stage Raw First Picture Show, (American Award), As You Like It (Ovation Conservatory Theater), 36 Views Award nomination), Mrs. Warren’s (Laguna Playhouse), Archy and Profession (Ovation Award Mehitabel: A Back Alley Opera (The nomination), The Curse of Oedipus Yard, Chilmark), Temptation, The and others. Theater: Most recently Wood Demon (Mark Taper Forum), as Hercule Poirot in Murder on Sex Parasite, Largo Desolato (Taper, the Orient Express at La Mirada Too), The History Boys (Ahmanson Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Theatre), Durango (East West American Conservatory Theater, Players), A Christmas Carol ( South Coast Repertory, The Old Theater Center). Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Matrix Theatre, La Mirada, Williamstown KRISTEN ARIZA (MISS SMITHERS): Theatre Festival, Center Stage, At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theaters: Milwaukee Rep and the California, Good People, Seven Guitars, A Oregon, and Utah Shakespeare Christmas Carol, Sojourner Truth (The Festivals (Fallstaff Nomination 2015, Alliance Theatre); Henry IV, Part One, title role in King Lear at USF). Tony Macbeth, Shrew! The Holiday Musical was an associate artist, actor, and (Georgia Shakespeare Festival); Good JOHN BOBEK (CAPTAIN People (Geffen Playhouse, U/S), Five BRETHERTON): At ANTAEUS: Women Wearing the Same Dress The Cripple of Inishmaan, Three (The Willie Agee Playhouse), It’s Just Days In The Country, As You Like Sex (Two Roads Theatre). New York It, The Hothouse, ClassicsFest - credits include: Measure for Measure Ah! Wilderness and The Inland (American Globe Theatre). Film/ Sea. Other Theater: Skullduggery: TV: Confirmation (HBO), recurring The Musical Prequel to Hamlet, roles on Bosch, The Fosters, StartUp, DISASTEROID! (Sacred Fools and guest starring roles on American Theater Company); Stupid F**king Horror Story, Parks & Recreation, Bird (Boston Court Pasadena, U/S); NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Grey’s Mental: The Musical (Edgemar Anatomy, Castle, Bones, among Center for the Arts). Television: others. Training: B.A., Theatre FSU. A Series of Unfortunate Events, kristenariza.com American Crime, Longmire, Battle Creek, The West Wing, Rizzoli & BEN ATKINSON (FELLOWES/ Isles, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your WAITER): At ANTAEUS: As You Like Mother, Happy Endings, Castle. Film: It. Other Theaters: Resolving Hedda When a Stranger Calls, Stomping (The Victory Theatre), Macbeth Ground, Freshwater, Recoil. Original (Fearless Imp), A Midsummer Night’s music available under John Bobek on Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, Spotify, Troilus and Cressida (Trashcan BandCamp. B.A. Theatre Arts, Shakespeare), An Actor’s Carol (Hi- Marquette University. Represented Desert Playhouse), and Noises Off by The Glick Agency. johnbobek.com (Live Arts). Ben is a proud member of or imdb.me/johnbobek the Antaeus Academy. KENDRA CHELL (MISS JAY) ERIN BARNES (KITTY BRANT): At At ANTAEUS: Peace in Our Time, ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theaters: multiple ClassicsFest readings. Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley Theater credits include: UK, China, (Jane Bingley) at Ensemble Theatre Russia, and Southern California Company, The Missing Pages of tours of Track 3 (Theatre Movement Lewis Carroll (Lorina) at Boston Bazaar, LA Weekly Award Nominee), Court Pasadena, By the Bog of Cats The Illusion (Open Fist Theatre, LA (Caroline) and The Importance of Weekly Award Nominee), As You Like Being Earnest (Cecily) at Theatre It (Kingsmen Shakespeare), The Dead Banshee, the Chicago Company (Open Fist), Arcadia (Sierra Madre of Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding (Sister Playhouse). Film/TV: I Am I, DDMTA, Terry), and several seasons with the The Selling, Transparent, recurring on Cleveland Shakespeare Festival. 9-1-1 and Pearson. Love to D & H. Film/TV: Switched at Birth, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life, SHANNON LEE CLAIR (MISS Shameless, Scorpion, Transparent, MORTON): At ANTAEUS: Uncle S.W.A.T., commercials for Wendy’s, Vanya, Top Girls, The Crucible. Merck, etc. Training: CWRU. LA Theater: Kindertransport (LA Representation: Smith & Hervey/ Theatre Works), Under Milk Wood, Grimes Talent Agency. Love: JB. Watch on the Rhine (Will Geer Theatricum), The Secret Garden (Lewis Family Playhouse), Romeo and her self-produced, written, and Juliet (Looseleaf Theatre). Film: The directed one woman show Signed Unknown (Siege Films), The Dangle Iola. LA premieres: The Tragic (Best Short, CA Ind. Film Fest). Ecstasy of Girlhood (Third Culture Shannon has been a Quarterfinalist Theatre, Palms Up Academy, and for the Nicholl Screenwriting HBO). Jazzlyn holds a BA from the Fellowship at the Academy of Motion University of Illinois at Chicago and Picture Arts and Sciences, holds a has trained at Art of Acting Studio Merchant Mariner License from the (LA), Royal Academy of Dramatic U.S. Coast Guard, and, last fall, she Art (UK), and the Antaeus Academy. backpacked the 211-mile John Muir Representation: BBA Models. Trail in 12 days! Woohoo! She is a jazzlynkluckett.com graduate of LAMDA and Princeton University. ABIGAIL MARKS (DIANA MASSINGBERD): At ANTAEUS: EVE GORDON (MISS PRINGLE/ Cloud 9 (Stage Raw Nomination MRS. CANTELUPE): At ANTAEUS: - Best Supporting Actress, 8 As You Like It, Peace In Our Time, LADCC Awards), Top Girls (Ovation The Autumn Garden, You Can’t Take nomination - Best Supporting Actress, it With You, The Curse of Oedipus, Backstage and Sage awards - Best Picnic. LA Theater: Open House Supporting Actress), As You Like It. (Skylight Theatre Company), The Ugly Other Theater: Sense and Sensibility One (EST/LA), The End of the Day (South Coast Rep.); Prelude to a (Coast Playhouse). Regional favorites: Kiss (Craig Lucas, SCR); Losing My Measure for Measure at Yale Rep, Religion (Pasadena Playhouse); directed by John Madden; Africanis Hamlet, Women Beware Women Instructus by Richard Foreman at (The Shakespeare Theatre); Three the Pompidou Centre in Paris; The Sisters (Studio Theatre); I Love Lucy: Vinegar Tree at Seattle Rep, directed a funny thing happened on the way by Daniel Sullivan; Hang On to Me to the sitcom (L.A. Theatre Works, at the Guthrie Theater, directed by World Premiere); Eurydice, The ; Cunegonde in Candide Beaux Stratagem, A Christmas Carol, at the Goodman Theatre, directed Uncle Vanya, Tartuffe, The Doctor’s by Munson Hicks. Eve made her Film Dilemma, Long Day’s Journey into debut in The World According to Night (A Noise Within); A Bright Garp and appears in the upcoming Room Called Day (Coeurage); The season of Big Little Lies. In between, Visit, The Tempest (Oval); South among nearly 100 Film/TV roles of Delancey (Fremont Centre); created by , Norman Motherland (Inkwell). Selected TV/ Lear, JJ Abrams and Todd Waring (her Film: Bordertown (Netflix), Glee husband). (Fox), The Dream (Flying Box - Lulu Wang, Bruce Dern), People at a Party JAZZLYN K. LUCKETT (MISS (BBC), commercial campaigns for MORTON): At ANTAEUS: Mayor Barclay’s Bank and “We Card” (Dir. of the 85th Floor (LAB RESULTS); Tony Scott). M.F.A.: The Academy for The Trojan Women and Henry VI, Classical Acting at the Shakespeare Part I (Classic Sundays). Jazzlyn Theatre Company. B.A.: The George has appeared at the Hollywood Washington University. abigailmarks. Fringe Festival in Shakespeare&Chill com (Bag O’ Bones Collective) and in DESIRÉE MEE JUNG (MISS Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, SMITHERS): At ANTAEUS: Celia in Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven), As You Like It; Lady Percy in Henry Arena Stage (D.C.). Recent Television IV, Part One; The Curse of Oedipus. appearances include Chicago Med Recent credits include: Margaret and The Fosters. in Sense & Sensibility (South Coast Repertory), Princess of France in ELYSE MIRTO (MRS. WHYTE- Love’s Labour’s Lost and Countess FRASER/OLD WOMAN): At of Salisbury in Edward III (Colorado ANTAEUS: Marquise de Merteuil in Shakespeare Festival), Portia in The Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Audrey Merchant of Venice (Local Theatre in As You Like It. Other LA Theaters: Company LAB), Gloria and The Most recently Queen Elizabeth I in Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide Shakespeare in Love and Mother (Curious Theatre Company), Rose in Little Black Shadows (South and the Rime (Sacred Fools Theater Coast Repertory); Collective Rage: Company), Supper (Theatre of A Play in 5 Boops (Boston Court NOTE), Colony Collapse (Boston Pasadena); Barbecue (The Geffen Court Pasadena), 99 Histories (Artists Playhouse); A Flea in Her Ear, The at Play), and reasons to be pretty Guardsman, Figaro (A Noise Within, (Paragon Theatre Ensemble). She LA Drama Critics Circle nomination); has trained with Shakespeare & Conviction (The Rubicon Theatre, Company, Queensland Shakespeare Ovation nomination); Forever House Ensemble, and Oz Frank Theatre. (Skylight Theatre Company); Steel She holds degrees in Theatre and Magnolias (Laguna Playhouse); Business from the University of Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Romeo and Northern Colorado. DesireeMeeJung. Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing (The com Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival). New York Theater: White’s Lies (Off- LYNN MILGRIM (MRS. WHYTE- Broadway), Any Day Now (New York FRASER/OLD WOMAN): At Innovative Theatre Award), Next ANTAEUS: Tonight at 8:30, The Year in Jerusalem (NYIT nomination), Malcontent, Wedding Band, Uncle Catch the Fish, The Eternal Husband. Vanya, Hedda Gabler. Lynn has Chicago Theater: The Goodman and appeared on Broadway in Otherwise Chicago Shakespeare Theater. TV: Engaged with Tom Courtenay, Criminal Minds, Grey’s Anatomy, directed by Harold Pinter; Bedroom Scandal, NCIS, Cold Case, Law & Farce with John Lithgow directed Order: SVU, Malibu Gothic, and a by Peter Hall; Charley’s Aunt and recurring role on The Last Ship. Elyse the international tour of Brighton has also been seen in numerous Beach Memoirs. Off-Broadway plays independent films and national include appearances at Manhattan television commercials. B.F.A. from Theatre Club, Second Stage, WPA Western Michigan University. Royal and NY Shakespeare Festival. Her National Theatre of Great Britain. extensive regional theater credits include leading roles at South Coast CINDY NGUYEN (KITTY BRANT): Repertory, (most recently Trip to At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theaters: Bountiful; Rest; Doll’s House, Part Hamlet (The New American Theatre); 2), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cymbeline, King John, Pericles (The Charles Playhouse (Boston), Hartford Porters of Hellsgate); That Pretty Pretty, or the Rape Play, Love & Lab). TV/Film: Silicon Valley, What/ Information, If You Can Get to Buffalo If, Station 19, Castle, The Newsroom, (Son of Semele Ensemble). TV/ Maron, , Hopeless Film: ABC’s For the People, Netflix’s Romantic, Happy Endings, Client List, Dear White People, A Cinderella Fetching, and others. Training: M.F.A., Christmas. Training: B.F.A., Chapman CalArts. Brian is represented by Main University. Title Entertainment.

KRYSTEL ROCHE (MISS JAY)At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theaters: Showpony (The Victory Theatre). She has been recently seen in The Passage on TBS. She speaks French and Creole fluently and is a working voice actor as well. She recently voiced a character in the video game Crackdown 3. Special Awards: Won Best Supporting Actress at The Open World Toronto Film Festival.

PAUL STANKO (FELLOWES/ WAITER): At ANTAEUS: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Other Theaters: Three Musketeers (Palos Verdes Performing Arts), Twelfth Night (Four Clowns), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (After Hours Theater), Les Blancs (Rogue Machine Theatre), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatricum Botanicum), Kaidan (Rogue Artists Ensemble), The Hairy Ape (Odyssey Theatre). TV/ Film: Ultraman Cosmos, Superior. Streaming: Severus Snape and the Marauders (YouTube), Dick Hopper Private Eye (Amazon). Training: Antaeus Academy, ComedySportz, B.A. Theater Studies/Acting, USC. stankoforever.com

BRIAN TICHNELL (CAPTAIN BRETHERTON): At ANTAEUS: Peace In Our Time, Macbeth, The Curse of Oedipus. Other LA Theater credits: The Graduate (LA Theatre Works, National Tour); Dreamcatcher, Runaway Home (The Fountain); Circle Jerk (RedCat CNP); Clearwater, Mr. Job, Jack Benny (Padua Playwrights Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre, PRODUCTION Black Dahlia, Odyssey Theatre CASEY STANGL (DIRECTOR): Ensemble, L.A. Theatre Works, Casey Stangl is thrilled to return Pasadena Playhouse, Rogue Machine to Antaeus Theatre Company Theatre. Film: Hypnotized, Life As after directing the award-winning We Know It, He’s Just Not That Into productions of Cloud 9, Peace in You, Ravenous. Television: recurring our Time, The Curse of Oedipus, and on Major Crimes, Shameless, Kendra; The Liar. Recent projects include series regular on Public Morals, Total The Children at the Jungle Theater, Security, NYPD Blue. Spoken Word: The Cake at La Jolla Playhouse, Sit ‘n Spin, Rant & Rave, Spark Off Sense and Sensibility at South Coast Rose, as well as numerous other Repertory, Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s storytelling venues. billbrochtrup.com End at Arizona Theatre Company, KITTY SWINK (CO-ARTISTIC and Ah! Wilderness at American DIRECTOR): At ANTAEUS: appeared Conservatory Theater in San in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Picnic, Francisco. Recent awards include The Macbeth, Tonight at 8:30 and The Revolutionists at Everyman Theater, Curse of Oedipus. LA Theater: Matrix named 2017 “Best Play in Baltimore” Theatre Company, A Noise Within, by The Baltimore Sun and Cloud The Tiffany, Odyssey Theatre, Andak 9 at Antaeus, which won 8 awards Stage, and been nominated for from the Los Angeles Drama Critics many local theatre awards. She has Circle including Best Director and also worked in the regional theater. Best Production. Casey serves on Television: recurred on South of the Executive Board of SDC, the Nowhere, For the People, Nikki & national union for stage directors and Nora and guested on The Fosters, choreographers, and is a member of Monk, Leverage, Harry’s Law, The the Ovations Rules Committee at Los Riches, Crossing Jordan, multiple Angeles Stage Alliance. Nationally, episodes of Star Trek DS9 and Casey’s work has been seen at the Judging Amy, among others. Feature Humana Festival/ Actors Theatre of films include the soon to be released Louisville, Guthrie Theater, Denver The Long Shadow. Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Portland Stage Company, HERE Arts ANA ROSE O’HALLORAN Center, Minnesota Opera, Portland (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): Ana Rose Opera and many others. She was the is in her fifth season as Executive founding artistic director of Eye of Director of ANTAEUS. From 2012- the Storm Theatre in Minneapolis—a 2015, she served as the director company devoted to new work—for of development and then senior which she was named Minnesota director at The Pablove Foundation. Artist of the Year. From 2008- 2012, she worked in various roles in the development BILL BROCHTRUP (CO-ARTISTIC department at Center Theatre DIRECTOR): At ANTAEUS: Cloud 9, Group. She received her M.F.A. in Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Seagull, Theatre Management from California Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, State University, Long Beach and a Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, Pera B.F.A. in Theatre Management and Palas. Other Theater: Primary Stages, a B.F.A. in Performance from Ohio South Coast Repertory, Ensemble University. NINA CAUSSA (SCENIC KARYN D. LAWRENCE (LIGHTING DESIGNER): Originally from DESIGNER): At ANTAEUS: Debut. Barcelona, Nina works in theater, Other Theaters: Center Theatre film and experiential design on Group, South Coast Repertory, both sides of the Atlantic. Her most East West Players, Boston Court recent work in theater includes Our Pasadena, Ebony Repertory Theatre, Country (Edinburgh Fringe, Under the Rogue Artists Ensemble, International Radar), The Life and Death of Mary City Theatre, Arizona Broadway Jo Kopechne (Odyssey Theatre), Kiss Theatre, The Garry Marshall (Odyssey Theatre), The Day Shall Theatre, A Noise Within, and The Declare It (Los Angeles Arts District), New Swan Shakespeare Festival. In Go Back to Where You Are (Odyssey addition to theater, she is Radiance Theatre), American Falls (Echo Lightworks’ lead lighting designer Theater Company), Sorry Atlantis for Universal Studios’ Halloween (Machine Project). Film/Other media: Horror Nights. She currently teaches Telling Lies (Annapurna Interactive), lighting design at California State The Chain (La Panda) and Money University, Los Angeles. Her work (Create Entertainment). ninacaussa. has also been seen in Italy, Poland, com the Czech Republic, and Romania. kdlightingdesign.com A. JEFFREY SCHOENBERG (COSTUME DESIGNER): Jeffrey JEFF GARDNER (SOUND Schoenberg has been designing DESIGNER): At ANTAEUS: The costumes for L.A. area theaters Cripple of Inishmaan, The Little for more than 35 years. He has Foxes, Native Son, The Hothouse, Cat designed more than a dozen shows On A Hot Tin Roof, Picnic, Wedding for Antaeus, most recently Three Band. Other Theater: Geffen Days in the Country, Wedding Band, Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre, The Malcontent, King Lear and the The Wallis Annenberg Center for award winning Cloud 9. Other recent Performing Arts, A Noise Within, designs include: Candide for CSULB; Boston Court Pasadena, Circle X The Winter’s Tale for Shakespeare Theatre Co., Echo Theater Company, by the Sea; Resolving Hedda for The Rogue Machine Theatre, Skylight Victory Theatre; Elmina’s Kitchen for Theatre Company, IAMA Theatre Lower Depth Theatre; Juno and the Company, Colony Theatre, The Paycock and Bach at Leipzig for the Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, Odyssey Theatre; The Dead, The Time The John F. Kennedy Center for the of Your Life and Threepenny Opera Performing Arts, and Williamstown for the Open Fist Theatre Company; Theatre Festival. An Ovation award- and the NoHo Arts Center’s Elizabeth winning sound designer, Jeff can be Rex (Ovation winner). For the Colony seen at L.A. Theatre Works, where Theatre Company, he designed over he regularly performs live sound 35 productions, including Dames at effects, and as the resident sound Sea, Side Show (Ovation winner), designer for the Westridge School in The Ladies of the Camellias and The Pasadena. jeffthomasgardner.net Laramie Project. Jeffrey is the owner and designer for AJS Costumes, KATIE IANNITELLO (PROPS Renaissance Dancewear and Mr. Alan DESIGNER): Katie is thrilled to Jeffries Fine Gentlemen’s Apparel. have the opportunity to work with Antaeus in the hunt for props for this American Conservatory Theater production. Her past design credits (San Francisco), LA Shakespeare include properties design for Reefer Festival, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Madness, Little Shop of Horrors, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival. Rocky Horror Picture Show (Ray of As a director: The Hothouse, and Light Theatre), and costume design readings of Heartbreak House, Three for Spelling Bee (Bay Area Musicals), Sisters, Blithe Spirit and Flare Path Oliver and Miss Saigon (Maui (ANTAEUS), The Proposal (PICT), The Academy of Performing Arts). When Theory of Nothing (Mach 3 Cal Tech she’s not designing, you can find her Play Readings), and most recently, tap dancing and performing with her The Winter’s Tale (Art of Acting band! Studio, Hollywood). M.F.A. in acting, The American Conservatory Theatre. JESSICA MILLS (HAIR AND WIGS DESIGNER): At ANTAEUS: The RACHEL BERNEY NEEDLEMAN Malcontent, Cloud 9, Les Liaisons (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/ Dangereuses, The Little Foxes. Other DRAMATURG): At ANTAEUS: As design work includes: Zoot Suit You Like It; Cloud 9; Henry IV, Part (Mark Taper Forum), Merrily We Roll One; The Curse of Oedipus; Wedding Along (Wallis Annenberg Center Band; The Liar. Other Theaters: for the Performing Arts), Stoneface Directed Five Second Chances by (Pasadena Playhouse). She has also Mattie Brickman (Pacific Resident worked on various productions Theatre), Cowgirls by Mildred Lewis for Musical Theater West, Los (EST/LA One-Act Festival), and Angeles Opera, Nashville Opera, Gigi Bermingham in Cabaret Noel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (ANTAEUS and Skylight Theatre). at the Hollywood Bowl. When not In 2017, Rachel co-created and co- working in theater, film or television, directed The Space Between as a Jessica teaches classes or works on fellow for JWT NEXT @The Braid individual wig commissions at her Arts Council. She regularly directs studio. workshops and readings of new plays for theaters including EST/ NIKE DOUKAS (ACCENT COACH) LA, The Blank, Skylight Theatre As accent coach: Top Girls and and Theatricum Botanicum. She Patience at ANTAEUS, plus A has assistant directed at many area Noise Within, Boston Court theaters including South Coast Pasadena, Pasadena Playhouse, LA Repertory and IAMA. Theatreworks and many others. As an actor at ANTAEUS: Three Days in HEATHER GONZALEZ the Country, Hedda Gabler, Cousin (PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER) Bette, Tonight at 8:30, Patience, At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other The Liar, The Wood Demon, and Theatres: What Goes Around (Kaiser countless readings. Other regional Permanente Educational Theatre), theater credits include: South Coast Wicked Lit (Unbound Productions), Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo The Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, and Juliet (East LA Classic Theatre The Jewel Theatre, PICT and National Tour), BoomerMania (El Kinetic Theatre (in Pittsburgh), ACT Portal Theatre), I Capture the Castle Theatre (Seattle), Berkeley Rep and (El Portal Theatre), Sylvie (The Odyssey Theatre), Three Penny Opera (The Odyssey Theatre) Resident Production Stage Manager: American Music and Drama Academy, Young Actors Workshop.

DESIRÉE MEE JUNG (MOVEMENT COORDINATOR): See Cast Bio.

ADAM MEYER (PRODUCTION MANAGER & TECHNICAL DIRECTOR): Adam has been hanging around the ANTAEUS buildings since 2004. He took over as Production Manager in 2011 and has overseen every production since then. Adam is also a company member and has acted in numerous plays and readings with ANTAEUS. He credits all of his success to this warm and loving theater company, as well as his wife Rebecca and son Leo.

JESSICA OSORIO (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER): At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Hothouse, Native Son, Three Days In The Country, The Little Foxes, The Cripple of Inishmaan. Other Theater: If All The Sky Were Paper (Kirk Douglas Theatre). Education: B.F.A. from AMDA LA. Cheers to everyone involved with bringing this story to life. Enjoy the magic!

ENSEMBLE MEMBERS John Achorn, Rhonda Aldrich, John Allee, Heather Allyn, Tony Amendola, John Apicella, Tessa Auberjonois, Sola Bamis, Erin Barnes, Noah Bean, Fran Bennett, Gigi Bermingham, Daniel Bess, Daniel Blinkoff, John Bobek, Andrew Borba, Chad Borden, Christopher Breyer, Bill Brochtrup, Anne Gee Byrd, Stephen Caffrey, Jane Carr, Emily Chase, Shannon Clair, Josh Clark, Avery Clyde, Barry Creyton, JD Cullum, Paul Culos, Nicholas D’Agosto, Gregg Daniel, Julia Davis, Ramón de Ocampo, Jen Dede, Joe Delafield, Jason Delane, John DeMita, David DeSantos, Seamus Dever, Etta Devine, Gabriel Diani, Dawn Didawick, Francia DiMase, Mark Doerr, Daniel Dorr, Nike Doukas, Sarah Drew, Mitchell Edmonds, Paul Eiding, Nicole Erb, Terry Evans, James Ferrero, Martin Ferrero, Karianne Flaathen, Julia Fletcher, Bo Foxworth, Jeff Thomas Gardner, Matthew Goldsby, Robert Goldsby, Alexandra Goodman, Eve Gordon, Belen Greene, Harry Groener, Matthew Grondin, Arye Gross, Graham Hamilton, Simon Helberg, Steve Hofvendahl, Shannon Holt, Sally Hughes, Kate Maher Hyland, Gregory Itzin, Antonio Jaramillo, Dylan Jones, Veralyn Jones, Desirée Mee Jung, Michael Kirby, Lily Knight, Alexander Knox, Tamara Krinsky, Adrian LaTourelle, Paul Lazarus, Emily Lenkeit, Ian Littleworth, Melanie Lora, Henri Lubatti, Aaron Lyons, Jill Maglione, Abigail Marks, Leo Marks, Kwana Martinez, Anna Mathias, Kellie Matteson, Dakin Matthews, Don R. McManus, Anne McNaughton, Mike McShane, Bill Mendieta, Adam Meyer, Lynn Milgrim, Allan Miller, Richard Miro, Elyse Mirto, Rosalyn Mitchell, Lisa Valerie Morgan, Rebecca Mozo, Rob Nagle, Claudette Nevins, Ann Noble, Jeffrey Nordling, Linda Park, Melinda Peterson, Robert Pine, Lawrence Pressman, Philip Proctor, John Prosky, Deborah Puette, Anna Quirino-Miranda, Carolyn Ratteray, Spencer Rowe, Jeanne Sakata, Mikael Salazar, Raphael Sbarge, Ned Schmidtke, A. Jeffrey Schoenberg, Liza Seneca, Armin Shimerman, Stephanie Shroyer, John Sloan, Adam J. Smith, Kurtwood Smith, Devon Sorvari, Janellen Steininger, Joanna Strapp, Susan Sullivan, James Sutorius, Elizabeth Swain, Joel Swetow, Kitty Swink, Jeanne Syquia, R. Scott Thompson, Danielle Thorpe, Jocelyn Towne, Rebekah Tripp, Marcelo Tubert, Peter Van Norden, Geoffrey Wade, Todd Waring, Patrick Wenk-Wolff, Laura Wernette, Karen Malina White, Amelia White, Abby Wilde, Jules Willcox, Paul Willson, Alicia Wollerton, Kelvin Yu, Buck Zachary PLAYWRIGHTS LAB MEMBERS Sean Abley, Nayna Agrawal, Alex Alpharaoh, Terence Anthony, Steve Apostolina, Barbara Nell Beery, Jennifer Berry, Jami Brandli, Paula Cizmar, Jihan Crowther, Angela J. Davis, Kevin Delin, Matt Doherty, Vincent Terrell Durham, Jeanette Farr, Ruth Fowler, Cyndy Fujikawa, Alex Goldberg, Mel Green, Jason Grote, Deb Hiett, Christina Hjelm, Karen Huie, Julie Jigour, Jonathan Josephson, Luis Kelly-Duarte, Lisa Kenner Grissom, Carolyn Kras, Jennifer Maisel, Anna Mathias, Dakin Matthews, Robert Menna, Ed Napier, Ann Noble, Devon O’Brien, Tira Palmquist, Chandler Patton, Jennifer Rowland, Eric Rudnick, Steve Serpas, Kimberly Shelby-Szyszko, Lori Tubert, Sarah Tuft, Scott Walker, Stephanie Walker, Khari Wyatt, Marlow Wyatt

Antaeus Staff

Co-Artistic Directors ANTAEUS BOARD Bill Brochtrup, Kitty Swink OF DIRECTORS Executive Director David Gindler, Chair Ana Rose O’Halloran Rhonda Aldrich Jamie Anderson Production Manager & Technical Director Sonja Berggren Adam Meyer Stuart Berton Academy Manager Charlie Bohlen Payden Ackerman Bill Brochtrup Executive Assistant Bob Craft Nicole Samsel Evie DiCiaccio Assistant Technical Director Dawn Didawick Cuyler Perry Ruth Eliel Karen Frederiksen Bookkeeper Harry Groener Amy Michner Mary Lambert Artwork & Graphic Design Melinda Eades LeMoine Mila Sterling Kwana Martinez Publicist Claudette Nevins Lucy Pollak Ana Rose O’Halloran Ara Oshagan Antaeus Founders Linda Park Dakin Matthews, Lillian Groag Laura Seigle Arts Ed Teaching Artists Kitty Swink John Apicella, Elizabeth Berman, Reba Thomas Curtis Byrd, David DeSantos, Debra Thompson Adrian LaTourelle, Abigail Marks, Jocelyn Towne Eternal Mind, Ann Noble, Peter Van Norden Ramón de Ocampo, R. Ernie Silva, Arlene Vidor Jasmine St. Clair, Joanna Strapp, Jack Walker Elizabeth Swain, Karen Malina White April Webster