Mercy and her estranged daughter Bernice have their first visit in a very long time. Trauma, disappointments, and pain need to be confronted, and the profound importance of names must be understood before they can begin to move on in this sensitive and humorous portrait of a family at a crossroads.
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CREATIVE TEAM:
Series Host – Ramón de Ocampo
Audio Producer, Sound Designer, and Foley Artist – Jeff Gardner
At ANTAEUS: The Zip Code Plays Season 3, Hedda Gabler, The Curse of Oedipus; staged readings of Ghost Bicycle, Metamorphoses, Once in A Lifetime, The Lark, The Subject, and many more. California highlights include: South Coast Repertory (Our Town, Mr. Wolf, & many Pacific Playwright Festivals and NewSCRipts), Geffen Playhouse (Beheading Columbus, The Writers’ Room) The Old Globe (Compleat Female Stage Beauty), Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara (Crime and Punishment), San Jose Repertory (Sonia Flew), North Coast Repertory (String of Pearls), and work at Laguna Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, and Pasadena Playhouse. Elsewhere: Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Merry Wives of Windsor), Commonwealth Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest), La MaMa, New York Theatre Workshop in collaboration with Mabou Mines, American Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Ashland New Plays Festival, and more. In addition to commercial and TV work, nominated Best Actress for the short, Bonito Secrets; M.F.A. Harvard, B.A. Vassar. kwanamartinez.com
At ANTAEUS: The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Other Theaters: Talking Blues: Family Tradition (LGBTQ Davidson/ValentiniTheatre), A Force to Be Reckoned With (Casa 0101). TV/Film: Hawaii Five-0, Kominsky Method. Training: B.A., University of Hawaii; M.F.A., University of Southern California and A.R.T. at Harvard with The Moscow Art Theatre. Member: SAG/AFTRA. IG: @claudiaelmore www.claudiaelmore.com
Ann Noble is a Chicago Native with over twenty-five years of professional experience in the theatre as an actor, playwright, director and educator. In addition to teaching at Antaeus, she currently teaches at Berg Studios (Technique I & II) as well as at the Hyperion Arts Center/Studio A Dance (Scene Study). As a director, her recent credits include Smoke with LifeChild Productions and Moonshine Mamas with Two Heads Are Better Productions. With Antaeus, she recently directed two of the Classic Sunday Readings of Shaw’s St. Joan and Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, which she is slated to co-direct in its full production this winter with Armin Shimerman. As an actor, her credits with Antaeus are Hedda Gabler, The Crucible, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time, The Liar and The Malcontent. Her other theatre acting credits include: BLISS, or Emily Post is Dead with Moving Arts; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, and Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story of Barack Obama’s Mother all with LA’s LGBT Center; Other Desert Cities with ICT of Long Beach; American Dead with Rogue Machine; Orange Flower Water with the Victory; Belfry with Malibu Playhouse; An Ideal Husband with Sierra Madre Playhouse; The Fall To Earth, Bedroom Farce and London’s Scars with the Odyssey; Betrayal with ETC of Santa Barbara; Sidhe, And Neither Have I Wings To Fly, The Friendly Hour, Big Death & Little Death, Shove and Bunbury all with the Road; and over six productions with South Coast Rep. She also teaches acting and writing to incarcerated/at risk youth at several schools/institutions around LA including Homeboy Industries, and also works as a theatre director/instructor for youth at LA’s LGBT Center and LA’s Museum of the Holocaust. She is the current Casting Associate for Antaeus, and, also, will be directing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar for Warriors For Peace this fall.
Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx
Director
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.
*member, Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule
