|
|
WHO’S WHO:
ANTAEANS
|
|
John
Apicella (J.B. Feller)
last appeared in Antaeus’ The Liar in LA and at the
Chamizal Festival in El Paso. Also recently: Carl Laemmle (The
First Picture Show, A.C.T.), Archibald Grosvenor (Patience,
Antaeus at the Ford). He was Waffles in the Antaeus / Taper production
of The Wood Demon. Also for C.T.G.: West Coast premières
of Vaclav Havel’s Temptation and Largo Desolato.
John is also co-creator and Majordomo of The Bubalaires. Upcoming
films and TV: Indie The Zeros and Disney’s The
Kid; The Seventies for CBS, 18 Wheels of Justice
for TNN and Freaks & Geeks and Friends for
NBC. |
|
|
Dawn
Didawick (Belle) Founding
member Antaeus Project. Broadway: All My Sons (Tony Award,
Best Revival). Off-Broadway: Trudy Blue and The Laundromat.
Regional: Old Globe, San Diego; Seattle Repertory Theatre; Hartford
Stage Company; St. Louis Repertory Theatre; Actors Theatre of
Louisville. Roles ranging from Hermia and Titania in A Midsummer
Night's Dream to the title role in Lu Ann Hampton Laverty
Oberlander. Film & TV: includes Erin Brockovich,
Breakfast of Champions, I Shot Andy Warhol, Caroline
in the City, Murder One. Dawn is married to fellow
Antaean Harry Groener. |
|
|
Terry
Evans (Shory) Terry’s
last appearance with Antaeus was singing in Gilbert & Sullivan’s
Patience. He just closed the West Coast première
of the Road Company hit The Angels of Lemnos. LA theatre
credits include Gratiano in The Merchant of Venice (also
at The Road), neo-Nazi professor Cooper in Denial, young
Tennessee Williams in The Long Goodbye, and Warren in
the west coast premiere of Ira Levin’s Cantorial,
at Actors’ Alley. He has appeared in film and TV and is
an award-winning set designer. Terry is currently working as
a design consultant and project manager and looks forward to
beginning construction on New Place, future home of the Antaeus
Company in the NoHo Arts District. |
|
|
Paul
Gutrecht (David Beeves)
recently received a Panavision New Filmmakers Grant for the short
film, What We Have, which he wrote and directed. While
on a recent tour in Poland of Gumbrowicz's A Feast At Countess
Kotlubay's, Paul managed to locate his grandfather's birth
certificate. He has performed at the La Jolla Playhouse, South
Coast Repertory, and in several productions for the Williamstown
Theatre Festival and LA Theatre Works. Recent film and television
credits include the features Treasure Island (Special
Jury Award—Sundance, 1999) and More Dogs Than Bones,
Chekhov's Gun and Will & Grace. A graduate
of Cornell University, Paul received his MFA in Theatre from
U. C. San Diego. Thanks to the whole family. |
|
|
Dakin
Matthews (Augie Belfast)
is the Managing Director of the Antaeus Company and an Associate
Artist at the Old Globe Theatre. He was Artistic Director of
the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival and the California Actors Theatre,
a founding member of The Acting Company, a Julliard Drama instructor,
and a Professor of English at Cal State Hayward. Recent stage
roles: Tristán (The Liar, Antaeus), Falstaff (Merry
Wives, Old Globe), C. S. Lewis (Shadowlands, South
Coast Rep), Caesar (Julius Caesar, Shakespeare Festival/LA),
Noah (Freedomland, Playwrights Horizons). His thirty films
include Thirteen Days, The Muse, Nuts, And The Band Played
On, and White Mile. He has guested frequently on TV,
with regular or recurring roles in nine different series. |
|
|
Melinda
Peterson (Belle) Regional
Theatres: Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Hesione
in Heartbreak House, Kay Thorndyke in State of the
Union, Ruth in Later Life, Sarah in At the Still
Point, Elizabeth in New England, Fanny Hardgristle
in The Scandalous Adventures of Sir Toby Trollop, Cookie
Cusak in Rumors. Los Angeles: Ladies of the Camellias
(Drama-Logue award), The Illustrated Woman (Ovation
Award Nomination), Fools Die Fast (Drama-Logue award),
Candy and Shelly Go to the Desert (1987 Best of Year Citation).
A member of Antaeus since 1991, Ms. Peterson writes and performs
radio comedy with her husband Philip Proctor. |
|
|
Phil
Proctor (Pat Beeves) has
won acting awards for his work on and off Broadway. He's done
Ladies of the Camellias at the West End, New England
at SCR, Muzeeka at the Taper, and Patience and
The Liar at Antaeus, where he also directed Marivaux's
Robin, Polished by Love. TV includes Nightcourt, Fresh
Prince, and General Hospital. Films: The Independent
and The Rocky and Bullwinkle Movie. You hear him as Howard
in The Rugrats, the drunk monkey in Dr. Doolittle,
and in Toy Story, Tarzan, and Boom Dot Bust (Rhino
Records) as a member of the twice Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre. |
|
|
Nicholas
Saunders (Andrew Falk)
was also a father in his last Arthur Miller play—he played
Joe Heller in All My Sons with the New York Vietnam Veterans
Ensemble Theatre. With the Antaeus Company he was recently seen
as Don Juan de Luna in Dakin Matthews' translation of Alarcón's
The Liar as well as Godfather Orlovsky in his fellow Antaean
Frank Dwyer's translation of Anton Chekhov's The Wood Demon
at the Mark Taper Forum. His other LA theatre credits, after
a distinguished career in the New York theatre (including 19
Broadway productions) and TV include Grandpa in Dinner At
Grandpa's at the Wooden "O" Theatre, the King in
Ondine at the Powerhouse Theatre, and several leads in
the Gascon Center Theater's The Chekhov Project. |
|
|
Marcelo
Tubert (Gus Eberson) is
a founding member of the Antaeus Company and has appeared on
stage at the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, the Old Globe,
La Mirada Civic Theatre, New Mexico Rep, Grove Shakespeare Festival,
and Taper Too, as well as many of LA's smaller theatres. TV credits
include The Practice, Family Law, Charmed, Roswell, Frasier,
Dharma and Greg, Mad About You, Ellen, and Home Improvement.
Features: many and various. Emily and Sarah, the daughters; Lori,
the very talented wife--thanks for your support. |
|
|
Peter
Van Norden (Dan Dibble)
Recent: Horace Vandergelder in The Matchmaker (San Jose
Rep), and the tile role in Shakespeare's Cymbeline (The
Old Globe Theatre in San Diego). Also Juan Guarneri in The
Magic Fire at the Guthrie in Minneapolis, Berkeley Rep, and
The Old Globe; Henry Kissinger in Nixon's Nixon at San
Jose and Seattle Reps; Sam Zilinsky in Mizlansky/Zilinsky
at San Jose Rep; and dozens of plays on- and off-Broadway
and in LA. Back Stage West Garland Award for Outstanding Performance
as Inspector Truscott in Joe Orton's Loot for LA's The
Blank Theatre Company. Film: The Accused, Police Academy 2,
and the Stephen King mini-series The Stand. TV: recurring
roles on LA Law; Murder. She Wrote; and Life Goes On. |
GUEST ARTISTS
|
|
Elizabeth
Bennett (Dramaturg) is
the Literary Manager at La Jolla Playhouse. She also teaches
undergraduate Theater History at San Diego State and Text Analysis
and Contemporary Drama in the graduate program in Theater at
University of California, San Diego. Prior to moving to California,
Elizabeth was Resident Dramaturg and Literary Manager at Dallas
Theater Center and Literary Assistant at Arena Stage; she has
also worked as a production dramaturg at Yale Repertory Theatre,
Round House Theatre, Hartford Stage, and Yale Cabaret. She has
published articles in American Theater, Theater, Vineyard Gazette,
countless newsletters and programmes, and the anthology Dramaturgy
in American Theatre. |
|
|
Robbin
E. Broad (Sound Designer)
has been designing in and around Los Angeles and Orange County
for the past 3 years. Most recent credits include Universes
at the ’99 Mark Taper New Works Festival, Twelfth Night
with Neurotic Young Urbanites, Adrift Through Tennessee
and Desire with Golden Mean, Bearing Witness at
the Stella Adler and Guignol Freak Show, Private Lies, The
Penal Colony/Red Peter at the Hunger Artists Theatre. Robbin
teaches Technical Design for Estancia High School and the Archer
School. Robbin is currently a Media Designer for Walt Disney
Imagineering working on the Sound Design for Disney's new park,
California Adventure. |
|
|
Dean
Cameron (Costume Designer)
is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, and has
worked as an artist, costumer, and set designer for twenty-five
years. He recently designed a Hamlet—based on the
paintings of Magritte—for the Nevada Shakespeare Festival
and a production of Tina Howe's The Museum at the Globe
Theatre in Los Angeles. Dean is also designing the "Gallery
of Angels" mural for the Antaeus Company's new theatre and
designed the set and costumes for its recent production of Alarcón’s
The Liar. |
|
|
Mitch
Carter (Shory) Starting
as a contract player at Universal in the early '70's, Mitch has
appeared in numerous films and TV shows. Most recently: Chicago
Hope, The Wayans Brothers, and Two of a Kind. LA theatergoers
have seen him in James Leo Herlihy's Terrible Jim Fitch,
Stephen Davis Parks' The Idol Makers, David Freeman's
Jesse and the Bandit Queen, Steven J. Rivelle's The
Wes and James Show and Del Shore's Daddy's Dying, Who's
Got The Will? and Sordid Lives. A busy voice actor,
Mitch is a founding member of the ADR group LA Mad Dogs. |
|
|
Sarah
Cathcart (Production Stage
Manager) is more often an actress than a stage manager. She
recently graduated from Stanford with the university arts award
for outstanding dramatic achievement, and has also trained and
performed at Shakespeare and Co. and Williamstown, among others.
Most recently Sarah was a resident artist at Lee Breuer's Mabou
Mines Co. in New York. Sarah is new to the Antaeus Company, and
is delighted to be a part of this production team. |
|
|
John
Combs (J.B. Feller) was
most recently in Los Angeles in the Circle-X production of Paul
Mullen’s new play Louis Slotin Sonata. In New York
he was an Artistic Associate with the Present Theatre Company
for over 4 years and worked for 2 seasons with the Threshold
Theatre Company. John has twice co-starred on NBC’s Law
& Order, has done many commercials and independent films,
the most recent called ’Til Death Does Us Part, directed
by Roko Markolovic. John is very happy to be working with Antaeus. |
|
|
Mark
Doerr (Amos Beeves) is
a founding member of the acclaimed Oasis Theatre Company where
he has performed in Measure for Measure, The Name of
the Bar is Heaven, and On The Verge. He is also a
director and has co-produced Framework—The Anne Bogart
Workshops, Oasis' ongoing training seminars, for the past
two years. Recently Mark was seen in Powder Keg at the
Odyssey Theatre and Desire at the Gascon Center Theatre.
He has appeared on both the small screen and silver screen, studied
at Oxford and the Moscow Arts Theatre, and is a graduate of the
Juilliard School. |
|
|
Paul
Eiding (Pat Beeves) appeared
as Dante in the record-breaking Tamara. He won the LA
Critics' Circle Award for his work in Cloud Nine. Representative
roles include Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Bob in Beyond
Therapy, and Ruffing in Ravenscroft. Paul starred
in Irving, an award-winning short film. Other features
and telefilms include Nightbreaker, Runaway Car, and Madhouse.
Paul was a series regular on The Charmings and recurred
for two years on Picket Fences. He has guest-starred on
The Practice, ER, The Pretender, Chicago Hope, and The
Drew Carey Show, among others. Paul's voice can be heard
on animated series, in films, and in numerous voice-over commercials. |
|
|
Katherine
Ferwerda (Scenic Designer)
has won two Garland Awards for her work with the Actors’
Gang, in 1998 for Salome, and 1999 for Ugly's First
World. She has won an LA Weekly Award for the Wilton Project's
Terese Raquin and three Dramalogue Awards for The Powerhouse's
production of In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe. Just
after finishing her MFA at UCSD, she was selected to be a representative
at the prestigious Prague Quadrennial International Design Competition.
Recently, she has been designing large events, most notably the
Project ALS Fundraiser and the toy fair show for Universal Picture's
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. |
|
|
Dan
Fields (Director/Producer)
was Resident Director of Disney’s Broadway production of
The Lion King, where he assisted director Julie Taymor
from its inception. In Seattle, as Resident Director at Annex
Theatre, he directed the world premières of A Little
Heap of Beckett, The 20th Century, This End Up, and Betty
in Bondage. He assistant directed the original productions
of Conversations with my Father (Seattle Repertory Theater,
directed by Dan Sullivan), Randy Newman’s Faust (La
Jolla Playhouse and the Goodman Theater, directed by Michael
Greif), as well as other productions at Intiman Theater and The
Empty Space Theater. At Williamstown Theater Festival he was
Assistant Director for a production of Chekhov’s The
Seagull featuring Christopher Walken, Gwyneth Paltrow, and
Blythe Danner. Fields has been a member of the Lincoln Center
Theater Directors Lab since 1996. He is the founding Artistic
Director of Finesilver Shows, a New York-based theatrical production
company. He adapted and directed Finesilver Shows’ inaugural
production of Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected,
four short stories by Roald Dahl. |
|
|
L.L.
Ginter (Augie Belfast)
was a member of NYC's Circle Repertory Company, where he performed
in Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July and Talley and Son
on and off-Broadway. Also for Circle Rep: Hamlet and Mary
Stuart. He's been seen on TV's XFiles and NYPD
Blue, and in the films Beverly Hills Cop 3 and Mercury
Rising. He is also a member of the Circle West Group here
in Los Angeles. |
|
|
Tamara
Krinsky (Hester) A native
Jersey girl, Tamara trained at Northwestern University and RADA.
Favorite stage credits include the Chicago hit Schoolhouse
Rock Live, Ready for the River, Othello, and Three
Sisters. Television and film credits include Charmed,
Seventh Heaven, 100 Girls, and Star Trek: First Contact.
She is a founding member of the theatre/film ensemble Theatre
Tribe. |
|
 |
Adam
LeBow (Assistant Director)
is an actor and former director. His previous projects with Dan
Fields include Yeb-Yang-Ah, Tiny Dimes, and Mystery
Train, all in Seattle, Washington. Adam's acting and directing
résumés include theatre and film projects in Los
Angeles, New York, Seattle, Michigan, San Francisco, and Japan.
This is his first association with the Antaeus Company. |
|
|
Christopher
Lore (Producer) was at
the Mark Taper Forum from 1990-1999, associate producing the
annual New Work Festival (including Flaw In The Ointment
and The Wood Demon with Antaeus). He has produced extensively
around LA at the Actors’ Gang Theatre, Garry Marshal’s
Falcon Theatre, the Buffalo Nights Theatre Co., the Cornerstone
Theatre Co., the Los Angeles Theatre Center as well as the ASK
Common Ground Festival. Chris is currently in post on a 35mm
short entitled Shoot!, and a DV feature entitled Black.
His short film Clowns starring Dan Butler and John Fleck
was seen at the 1999 Slamdance and Cannes Film Festivals. |
|
|
Bill
Mendieta (Dave, Amos)
is pleased to be in his first production with Antaeus. LA theatre:
originated the role of Randy, the good-hearted womanizer in Budz
(Group Repertory Theatre); Hamlet (Nevada Shakespeare); Caliban
in The Tempest (Will & Co.), Dracula in Tainted
Blood (Road Theatre). Originally from the Bay Area he has
worked with such companies as The Berkeley Repertory Theatre,
San Jose Repertory, California and San Francisco Shakespeare
Festivals, El Teatro Campesino, and the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
Films include Reality Check; The Garden; and The Wicked
Do Prosper, currently filming. TV credits include the pilot
Mirkenstock. |
|
|
Arthur
Miller (Playwright) is
critically considered one of the most brilliant playwrights of
our time, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony Awards
and New York Drama Critics Circle awards. His canon of plays
includes Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, The Ride Down Mt.
Morgan, A View From the Bridge, The Crucible, After the Fall,
Incident at Vichy, The Price, The Creation of the World and Other
Business, The Archbishop’s Ceiling, Up From Paradise, The
American Clock, Danger: Memory!, The Last Yankee and Broken
Glass, among others. The Man Who Had All The Luck
(originally an unpublished novel) was his first Broadway show. |
|
|
Matthew
O’Donnell (Lighting Designer) ) is currently nominated for an LA Weekly award
for his work on Anthony Clarvoe’s The Living at the
Colony Studio Theatre. In 1998, he received a Garland Award for
his lighting of the Circle X Theatre Co.’s The Texarkana
Waltz. He was honored in 1997 with both an Ovation Award nomination
and a Dramalogue Award for his lighting of the Colony’s
production of Our Country’s Good. Matthew also designs
for the Getty Center’s performance and concert series, lighting
such artists as Eric Idle, Lalo Guerrero, and Winifred Harris’s
Between Lines. He has toured extensively with musical artists
such as Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Isaac Hayes. |
|
 |
Julie
Segovia Rowland (Production
Supervisor) works as a stage manager, production supervisor
and producer for various noted Los Angeles theatre companies
including The Actors' Gang, Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum,
Cornerstone Theatre Company, LA Theatre Works, Playwright’s
Arena, and Fabulous Monsters. Recent shows include Luis Alfaro’s
Straight as a Line at The Actors’ Gang and Tagteam
Lovefest 2000. She recently toured the East Coast with Danny
Hoch’s Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop which included
performances at Yale Repertory Theatre and Tampa Bay Performing
Arts Center. |
|
|
Geoffrey
Wade (Dan Dibble) Geoffrey’s
Broadway credits include Translations and An American
Daughter. He did the national tour of Crazy for You
and the New England tour of Dancing at Lughnasa. Regional
work includes several seasons at the Cincinnati Playhouse in
the Park, as well as appearances at Pennsylvania Stage, Center
Stage, GeVa, Caldwell, Guthrie, St. Louis Rep, and Pioneer theatres
among others. Recent summers have been spent performing leading
roles at Vermont's Weston Playhouse. TV: Law & Order,
Ally McBeal, Judging Amy, Profiler, The City, and various
other soaps. Film: City Hall. He trained at Central where
he met and married actress/poet
Amelia White. |
|
|
Chris
Ward (Composer) is a multi-platinum
producer on Grammy award winning projects such as Tarzan
and The Lion King. He has contributed to Backdraft,
Radio Flyer, A League of Their Own, Toys, Crimson Tide, The Rock,
and True Romance, while working with such talented artists
as Hans Zimmer, Mark Mancina, Carol King, Tori Amos, Steve Stevens,
and Phil Collins. He has written additional music for Speed,
Con Air, Bad Boys, Return to Paradise, Moll Flanders, Assassins,
Tae-Bo, and John John In The Sky. He is currently
scoring Paramount's Solid Oak. |
|
|
Kellie
Waymire (Hester Falk)
Kellie’s recent theatre credits include Sylvia at
the Old Globe and Marines Memorial; On the Jump, South
Coast Rep., Present Laughter, Pasadena Playhouse, and
she will be working with Lynn Redgrave on the new play The
Mandrake Root at the Intiman Theatre this summer. Film and
television credits include Playing By Heart, Buddy Boy, Seinfeld,
Ally McBeal, The Practice, Stark Raving Mad, Snoops, Then Came
You, and Star Trek. She received her BFA from Southern
Methodist University and her MFA from U.C. San Diego. |
|
|
Tegan
West (Gus Eberson) A native
of Los Angeles, Tegan's theatre credits include numerous productions
at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Vikings at San Diego's
Old Globe, and War Babies and As You Like It (directed
by Des McAnuff) at the La Jolla Playhouse. He has starred and
guest-starred in dozens of TV movies and episodes, including
Hill Street Blues, Cheers, Frasier, Law & Order, Chicago
Hope, The XFiles, and ER. His film credits include
Hamburger Hill, Sleep With Me, Bad Company, Grace of My Heart,
and the soon-to-be-released Ghost of a Chance. |
|
|
Joanne
Wolfe (Stage Manager)
most recently served as sound operator for the Playwrights' Arena
production Straight as a Line by Luis Alfaro at The Actor's
Gang. Other credits include Assistant Stage Manager and Sound
Operator for an original Venice Playhouse production of Phiamma's
Dream. She spent many years as the Theatre Director of seven
Arrows Enrichment Program, directing and narrating multicultural
original plays for children. In addition, she acted in the MGM
motion picture Kingpin directed by the Farrelly Brothers.
This fall you can see Joanne in a 20th Century Fox film called
Say It Isn't So. She's very excited about working with
Julie Rowland again and is honored to be working with Dan Fields,
Chris Lore, and the Antaeus gang. |
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
and 
