Rhonda Aldrich (Choreographer, Lucía) is delighted to be making her second appearance with Antaeus. She has appeared Off-Broadway with the late Vittorio Gassman and with Mabou Mines. Regionally she has appeared at South Coast Rep., Milwaukee Rep., Pittsburgh Public, Alaska Rep., etc. Locally she has appeared at the Mark Taper Forum, Matrix, Odyssey, Interact, Celebration, Court, Hudson, etc.; in numerous plays at L.A.T.C.; and in the West Coast premiere of Balm and Gilead. Film and television include: Crocodile Dundee in L.A., Bob Roberts, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, State of Grace, Walker: Texas Ranger, Married With Children, Wings, Empty Nest, Star Trek: TNG, and many more. She is a member of the Hidden Theatre Company, Matrix Theatre Company, and the Classical Theatre Lab. She had fun reviving her choreographic skills for the opening dance.

Scott Allegrucci (Don Enrique de Vargas) Originally from Kansas, Scott trained at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York before working at The Public Theatre and with a number of artistically significant but commercially negligible avant-garde groups which, of course, no longer exist. He played errant youths in some ABC After School Specials and a libidinous youngster at the heart of the feature film The Feud. Regional work: The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, The Phoenix Theatre in New York, Frontera in Austin, and The Smokebrush Theater in Colorado – where he also directed, adapted, taught and pretended to be Associate Artistic Director. For Antaeus: Minard in Mercadet, Don Juan in a previous workshop of this play, and Eugene in a reading of the musical Goriot. Recently, his short film Mime and Punishment (co-written with Josh Assael) was runner-up in the First Annual Short Film Group/Scenario Short Script Contest. Scott holds a BA in Anthropology from The Colorado College and hopes someday to be a successful organic farmer.

 John Apicella (Tristán) recently returned from playing Scrooge in Dallas Theatre Center’s A Christmas Carol. For Antaeus: Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial By Jury, Balzac's Mercadet, the Antaeus / Finesilver Shows revival of Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All The Luck, Alarcon's The Liar in L.A. and El Paso, Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience, and the Antaeus/Taper production of Chekhov's The Wood Demon. Also for the Taper: West Coast premières of Vaclav Havel’s plays Temptation and Largo Desolato, both directed by Richard Jordan. Other recent productions: Glengarry Glen Ross and the world première of David and Ain Gordon's The First Picture Show at A.C.T. in San Francisco; Molly's Delicious for the Group Theatre at the Strasberg Center in Los Angeles. Upcoming films: Carl Franklin’s High Crimes with Ashley Judd and indie feature The Zeros. John has numerous TV credits and is co-creator and Majordomo of the L.A.-based absurdist comedy troupe The Bubalaires.

Terry Evans (Producer, Technical Director, Chacón) Antaeus credits include The Man Who Had All The Luck, Trial by Jury, Patience and The Ugly Duckling; other Los Angeles theatre credits include The Angels of Lemnos and The Merchant of Venice for The Road Company; Denial, Cantorial, The Long Goodbye, and others for Actors’ Alley and El Portal. He’s appeared in television, film, and stock and regional theatre. He is an award-winning set designer, and was project manager and design consultant for the El Portal Theatre, a position he holds for New Place Theatre Center, future home of The Antaeus Company.

Jennifer Gatti (Blanca) was last seen in the Antaeus productions of Mercadet: Napoleon of Finance (Julie) and Trial by Jury (Plaintiff’s Posse). Originally from New York City, Jennifer’s career began at the age of 12 with several contract roles on soap operas including Guiding Light and Search For Tomorrow. Her East Coast theatre credits include A Circle (Theater for the New City) and N. Richard Nash’s Breaking the Tie (Playwrights Conference @ Princeton). Since moving to Los Angeles, Jennifer’s had series regular roles in several pilots, and numerous t.v. guest spots including E.R., the Star Trek series. and Cosby. Film credits include Blood Money, Millennium Man, Nemesis, and Double Exposure. Jennifer is currently starring in the independent short film The Ten Rules.

Anne McNaughton (Director) most recently directed The Will and Trial By Jury in the Antaeus production Legal Briefs. Also: Twelfth Night for Mount St. Mary’s College, The Liar for Antaeus, and Collected Stories for the Globe Theatres. Award-winning productions include Richard III at Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at California Actors Theatre, and Artichoke at Berkeley Stage. A founding member of the Acting Company, she taught, directed and acted at the American Conservatory Theatre, earned a BFA from Juilliard (Group One) and an MA in Theatre from Stanford.

Dakin Matthews (Translator, Don Illán), the Artistic Director of the Antaeus Company, has appeared in its productions of The Wood Demon, Of Mice and Men, The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Liar (which he also translated), and Mercadet. He is an Associate Artist of the Globe Theatres of San Diego and an Emeritus Professor of English from Cal State Hayward. He was Artistic Director of the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival and the California Actors Theatre, a founding member of John Houseman's Acting Company, and a Juilliard Drama instructor. He is also a playwright, director, dramaturge, and Shakespeare scholar. He has appeared frequently in major roles in the Southland, most recently as Arnolphe in The School for Wives and C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands at South Coast Rep, Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Toby Belch in Twelfth Night at the Globe theatres, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Taper and Capulet in Romeo and Juliet at the Ahmanson. He has published three verse translations of 17th century Spanish plays, two of which had world premieres in 2000. He has appeared in over forty films and appears frequently on TV, this season recurring on The King of Queens and Gilmore Girls.

Bill Mendieta (Don Juan de Ribera) first came to Antaeus in The Man Who Had All The Luck, and then appeared in the Mercadet / Legal Briefs spring repertory.  Other recent theatre work includes Tom in Appearances to the Contrary at the Gascon Theatre Center, Tainted Blood and David and Goliath in America at the Road Theatre, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and as the title role in Hamlet with the Nevada Shakespeare Festival, and A Midsummer Night¹s Dream and as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing with Will & Company.  Originally from the Bay Area, Bill has worked with such theatre companies as the Berkeley and San Jose Repertory Companies, California and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, El Teatro Campesino, SF Mime Troupe, Thick Description, and the Phoenix Theatre.  Film Credits include:  Santa¹s Letters, The Wicked Do Prosper, Reality Check, Killer Instinct, and the animated Star Cars.

Bert Rosario (Don Illán) has been the Co-Artistic Director of the East L.A. Classic Theatre, and a former member of both the Minnesota Theatre Company at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre and the Group Repertory Theatre, where he also served as Associate Artistic Director. His feature films include S.O.B, A Million to Juan, and Shattered. He has guest-starred on countless television shows, recurring on several: B.J. & the Bear, Bob Newhart, Remington Steele, Knott's Landing, Major Dad, and Chicago Hope. He was a regular on Sword of Justice (NBC), 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage (NBC), and a.k.a. Pablo (ABC). He has a BA in Theatre Arts from Cal State Northridge, and did his graduate work under the Bush Fellowship Program at the University of Minnesota. He was Don Beltrán in the Antaeus production of Alarcon’s The Liar.

 Carl Smith (Composer, Musician) most recently composed and performed music for the world premiere of Dakin Matthews' Uncommon Players at San Diego's Globe Theatres, and for the Antaeus production of The Liar. He performed in, and composed incidental music for, Karen Black's one-woman show, A View of the Heart. He received DramaLogue awards for music composed for Love's Labor’s Lost and Richard III (both at Berkeley Shakespeare Festival), and was honored by Boston's Religious Arts Guild for Christmas music composed for Much Ado About Nothing. An active environmentalist, he has testified in Congressional hearings and published broadly on issues relating to hazardous chemical trade.

Karen Stone (Blanca) While in New York, among her favorite stage roles were Amy in Boca at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Laurette in Scenes From A Movie at the Harold Clurman Theatre. Other New York and regional theatre credits include: Blue Window (Emily), Come Back to the 5 & 10 Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Mona), Hamlet (Gertrude), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania), Camelot (Guenevere), The Music Man (Marian), and Me & My Girl (Sally). In LA: Trial By Jury (The Counsel), The Liar (Isabel), Patience (swing: Patience, Saphir, Ella, Maiden), Chamber Music (Pearl White), Raised in Captivity (Hillary), and The Emerald Society (Lieutenant's Wife). Television appearances include the pilot Blind Men, The X-Files, Beverly Hills 90210, General Hospital (recurring), The General Hospital Anniversary Special, All Right Already, and Port Charles (recurring). Karen is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NY and studied abroad through Yale University at Oxford England.

Amy Tolsky (Lucía) LA Theatre: Divorce Court Hell and Trial by Jury in the Antaeus production Legal Briefs, Nicholas Nickleby, The Sunshine Boys, Scream Queens, Man of Mode, and Harvey with Robert Morse. U.K./ Europe: The Misanthrope, Torch Song Trilogy, The Pistols, and Hair. TV & Film: Strong Medicine (recurring), Caroline in the City, The Nanny, The Amanda Show, Jeeves & Wooster, Intimate With a Stranger, and Million Dollar Hotel. Numerous radio, commercial and voiceover gigs from the BBC World Service to Bell Computer. Amy keeps busy with the Classical Theatre Lab, Theatre 40 and The Second City.