Monday evenings, 7-10p @ Antaeus Theater
A series of workshops focusing on various aspects of theater and the classics, moderated by leading Los Angeles theater professionals.
Please contact deirdre@antaeus.org to reserve your spot.
BRAVE NEW WORLD: devising The Tempest
with writer/director Corey Madden Mondays, 7-10p beginning February 4th
Class fee: $225 for 5 week session (due by Jan 28th) Class size: 12-15 ~ Open to all ages
To enroll, please contact Artistic Associate Deirdre Murphy at deirdre@antaeus.org.
Devising is a process of collaborative creation among actors, director, writer, designers that uncovers and develops rich, authentic, fresh perspectives on subject matter, text, character and design. It can be used as a step in a traditional rehearsal process, or as a means to creating a new work. There are as many kinds of devising as there are artists, but Madden experiences working with Declan Donnellan, Robert Le Page, Anne Bogart, David Gordon have influenced and inspired her approach.
Students are introduced to devising using Shakespeare's The Tempest . Working with images, movement, sound and the text, participants will explore their own interests and approaches to the material over five sessions. The final class will include a culmination with team presentations of devised scenes.
Classes are open to a wide range ofadult students from actors, directors, writers and designers to non-performers with a passion for learning and exploration. |
 John Achorn has been an Antaeus member since 1991. He is a master teacher of commedia dell'Arte, which he studied under the late Carlo Mazzone-Clementi. Antaeus credits include: The Seagull, The Malcontent, Merry Wives of Windsor, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, Penny for a Song, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, Collaborators, The Ugly Duckling, Mercadet, Pedrolino & The Hanky of Doom, The Blind One-Armed Deaf Mute, and The Wood Demon (Mark Taper) along with numerous readings and commedia cycles. LA stage: Synesthesia 2012, The Capulets & The Montagues, The Importance of Being Ernest, The Arsonists (LA Weekly nominee), Fafalo!, Golden State (Dell’Arte), Master Class (Mark Taper), La Bête, Bullshot Crummond, Footlight Frenzy & productions at The Powerhouse, Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, The Magic Theatre (S.F.). Film & TV: Almost Broadway (released late 1012), Born Yesterday, Book of Love, Night of the Comet, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Days of Our Lives, McBride, Lazarus Man, Quantum Leap, and the role of Don Kipper on CBS’ Bailey Kipper’s P.O.V. He has been seen in numerous commercials, and done voice work in many films. John also teaches workshops in commedia dell'Arte with Studio Zanni & The Antaeus Academy, and various classes at Santa Monica Emeritus College and the Virginia Avenue Project. He continues work on a documentary on Carlo Mazzone and the bringing of commedia to the U. S.
Jessica Kubzansky is the Co-Artistic Director of The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena, and an award-winning director working nationally in a wide variety of venues such as South Coast Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, The Geffen Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Silk Road, The Aurora, The Publick, and many others. With Antaeus: Macbeth, the full production, as well as Classicsfest Workshop 2011. At Boston Court: Tennessee Williams' Camino Real, Brecht/Hare's Mother Courage (with Camille Saviola), and many world premieres: Michael Elyanow’s The Children, Jordan Harrison's Futura, Laura Schellhardt’s Courting Vampires, Salamone/McIntyre’s Gulls (a musical adaptation of The Seagull), Mickey Birnbaum’s Bleed Rail, Carlos Murillo’s Unfinished American Highwayscape #9 & 32, Jean-Claude Van Itallie’s Light, and Cody Henderson’s Cold/Tender. Recently elsewhere: The 39 Steps (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts), Julia Cho’s The Language Archive (East/West Players), Jennifer Haley’s Breadcrumbs, Hamlet with Leo Marks, Winter's Tale (Theater 150), Mauritius (Pasadena Playhouse). Other credits include: The Glass Menagerie, Toys in the Attic, Heartbreak House (The Colony Theatre), world premieres of Julie Hébert’s Tree (EST/[Inside the Ford]), Bryan Davidson’s War Music (Geffen Playhouse), Bob Clyman’s Tranced (Laguna Playhouse), Salamone/McIntyre’s Moscow (Playwrights’ Arena/Chekhov Now, NYC), Tom Jacobson’s The Orange Grove (Playwrights’ Arena), plus Sheila Callaghan's Kate Crackernuts (24th Street Theatre), Two Gentleman of Verona (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), and many more. Kubzansky has received many area theatre awards, and is the recipient of the LA Drama Critics Circle's Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre.
Elizabeth Swain has taught at NYU, Hunter, CCNY, Barnard College and is Professor Emeritus at Marymount Manhattan College. She has taught at the Shakespeare Sedona Institute and returns regularly to teach Shakespeare at the Michael Howard Studio in Manhattan. In Los Angeles she has taught for A Noise Within, the Huntington’s Teacher education program and the Antaeus Academy She was a participant in the National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute, Shakespeare’s Staging :Inside and Out at the Blackfriars Theatre in  Virginia and at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Recent directing credits include Marston’s The Malcontent for the Antaeus Company, Master Harold and the Boys for Cape May Stage, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Cal State, Long Beach, Medea for Classicsfest 2008 and Macbeth for NY State Theatre Institute. Other credits include Pam Gems’ Camille, Stoppard’s Arcadia, The Winter’s Tale, an all-female Hamlet, two plays by Aphra Behn: The Rover and The Lucky Chance, Susanna Centlivre’s The Wonder, Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good and The Love of the Nightingale, Mishima’s Hanjo and the NY premiere of Wendy Kesselman’s The Executioner’s Daughter. She also directed Hamlet and Biyi Bandele’s adaptation of Aphra Behn’s novel Oroonoko for TWAS Theatre at the National Black Theatre in Harlem. Broadway acting credits include Charley’s Aunt, Crown Matrimonial and Sherlock Holmes (the RSC production). Ms. Swain has also worked Off and Off Off Broadway, in Regional Theatres across the country (NJ Shakespeare, Theatre Co. of Boston, ACT, Seattle, Olney Theatre MD, et al) and in a variety of tours. In LA she was in Antaeus’ Macbeth. Television credits include five years on Guiding Light and stints on As the World Turns, One Life to Live and Dark Shadows. Ms Swain has recorded over fifty books for the blind and has an active voice-over career. She is one of the featured actors in 2 CDs of poetry recently released by Highbridge: Voices of Love and Voices of Marriage. She holds a doctorate from the City University of NY.
Corey Madden is a writer/director in theatre and film and founder of L’Atelier Arts, which creates multi-disciplinary performances for theatres, museums and public art festivals. Prior to 2007 Madden was the Associate Artistic Director of the Mark Taper Forum for fifteen years, working with artists such as Robert Le Page, David Gordon, Peter Sellars, George C. Wolfe, Dec lan Donnellan, Tony Kushner, Anna Deavere Smith, Bill Cain among many. Madden has directed across the country at venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Public Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Madden has also created innovative programming for the Getty Museum, LACMA and MOCA, as well as Santa Monica’s GLOW and Transatlantyk Film and MusicFestival in Poland. Madden has received support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the NEA, Irvine, Wallace, Dana and Ford Foundations and has been a Lucas artist in residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts. Recent projects include Rain After Ash commissioned and presented at the Pacific Asia Museum as part of The A x S Festival (2011), Suzanne Lacy’s Three Weeks in January for the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, Day for Night premiered at GLOW on Santa Monica Beach (2010) and screened at the Transatlantyk Festival in Poland (2011), The Ecologies of Poetry as part of the NEA Big Read at Occidental College (2009), Surf Orpheus (2008) at the Getty Villa and UCSD and the Rockefeller award winning Rock, Paper, Scissors at Childsplay in Tempe, Arizona subsequently produced by Speeltheatre in Holland (2010) which won Best Play and Music of 2009.
Louis Fantasia is the Director of "Shakespeare at the Huntington", the teacher training institute of the Huntington Library in San Marino. Deeply involved with the rebuilding of the Shakespeare Globe theatre in London from 1988 to 2002, he served on the Globe's US Board of Directors and was the first American to direct on the reconstructed Globe stage in 1997. He is the author of Instant Shakespeare, and recently finished his second book, Tragedy in the Age of Oprah. In 2003, the Council of Europe named the theatre collection in its library at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in honor of Louis Fantasia, who holds both U.S. and European Union passports. In 2007, Louis served as President of Deep Springs College, and is currently Chair of the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at New York Film Academy/Universal Studios campus.
 Dakin Matthews is a founding member of The Antaeus Company and served as its first Artistic Director. He is a busy actor in film and television as well as on stage, and for the past 47 years has specialized in Shakespeare, recently playing King Lear in Antaeus’ partner-cast production (2010 Garland Award). His book Shakespeare Spoken Here is in its sixth edition and is used in universities and training programs around the country. He has given master-classes in Shakespearean acting around the world, and recently won a Drama Desk Award for his Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, a 2011 Falstaff Award for his portrayal of Lafew in Shakespeare in the Park’s All’s Well, and the 2010 Lear Award for his Lifetime Achievement in Shakespeare. He has recently returned from a seven-month run of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man on Broadway with James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury. He is also an Emeritus Professor of English from CSUEB and an award-winning translator of Spanish Golden Age plays (2011 LADCC Award for The Capulets and the Montagues.)
Robert Goldsby has worked in theatre for over sixty years as actor, director, professor, administrator, producer, translator, master teacher, scholar and author. For 30 ye ars (from 1957), he taught acting, dramatic literature and directing in the Dramatic Art Department at the University of California at Berkeley. In the late 1960s, Goldsby was an actor, resident stage director and conservatory director from the beginnings of San Francisco’s celebrated American Conservatory Theater. Additionally, Goldsby was a founding director of the legendary Berkeley Stage Company (1974-1984), introducing many important new plays and playwrights to America. Since relocating to Los Angeles, he has worked as actor and director at the major university and professional theatres of the region. Goldsby’s directing credits include work in New York, Paris, Marseille, San Francisco, Berkeley, and points in-between, for a total of 153 productions, including 46 plays from the classical cannon. As both director and scholar, Goldsby has been particularly devoted to Molière, and he has directed 15 productions of 11 of Molière works, some in his own translations. Goldsby has recently published his first book, Molière On Stage: What’s So Funny? (Anthem Press: London). He holds a B.A. in French and Comparative Literature from Columbia and an M.F.A. in Acting from Yale.
 Alan Mandell is a Founding Member of the famed San Francisco Actor’s Workshop in 1954, Mr. Mandell, a Beckett scholar, has had a distinguished 75-year acting career and is an accomplished voice-over actor. Broadway: Impossible Marriage. Off-Broadway: The Beard of Avon. National: Twelve Angry Men. Regional: Waiting for Godot (Center Theatre Group); No Man's Land - Ovation Award (Odyssey Theatre); Restoration (La Jolla Playhouse, New York Theater Workshop); The Cherry Orchard (Center Theater Group); Trying - Ovation Award(Colony Theatre Company). Film: The Marrying Man; Endgame; Midnight Witness; John Cameron Mitchell - Hedwig And The Angry Inch and Shortbus; The Coen Bros - A Serious Man. Television: ABC - Grey's Anatomy. National Public Radio: Broadway Bound; Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet.
Ron Orbach: Broadway: Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Starred in the Chicago premiere, on the national tour, and at ACT, Seattle, where he also directed); Chicago (1st National Tour,1997 Jeff Award). Off-Broadway: The God Committee (also directed the West Coast premiere); Hotel Suite (Roundabout). Other Regional: Played Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream @Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Tevye @Sacramento Music Circus; Pseudolus @The Denver Center; David O. Selznick @The Goodman; Also appeared @The Alley, La Jolla Playhouse and the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Numerous TV guest star appearances. Most memorable screen moment: The DMV Tester in Clueless. Mr. Orbach is also an acting coach, a director and a voice over artist, who lives in LA w/his beloved wife of ten years, Antaeus’s managing director, Kathleen Eads.
 Brenda Varda is a writer, songwriter, performer and educator: as a musical director and composer she has worked with a large number of new works in Los Angeles, at Bootleg, Sacred Fools, the Met, and more. Her own theatre works include Fables Du Theatre, Liquid, A Play In a Restaurant With a Pian o and A Bar, and Things That Fall From the Sky. She teaches at UCR and Art Center College of Design.
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