American Portraits

John Allee is an Ovation Award nominee and ensemble member of Antaeus, where he has appeared in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Cloud 9, Uncle Vanya, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It with You, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, and more. Other Stage Highlights: The Mystery of Irma Vep, A Man for All Seasons, The Man Who Came to Dinner, 33 Variations (Actors Co-op); Much Ado About Nothing (Kingsmen Shakespeare Co); Little Shop of Horrors (Arizona Theatre Company); Assassins (Los Angeles Theatre Center); Alone Together (Pasadena Playhouse); A Midsummer Night's Dream (LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera); One Thousand Cranes (Mark Taper Forum); and Chaplin (Pre-Broadway). On TV, he played Pasha on the Starz series Flesh and Bone. Podcast audiences can hear him on Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene. John is also an award-winning singer-songwriter and recording artist. His latest album is Past Imperfect. Johnallee.com

Theater: Off Broadway: True History (Vineyard Theater), Michael Mayer, Dir; Hologram Theory (Blue Light Theater); Modern Apocalypse (NYS&F), Michael Grief, Dir. Los Angeles productions: Misalliance (SCR), Hedda Gabler (PRT), Margo Veil, Ivanov, Passion Play (Evidence Room), We Are Proud to Present (The Matrix), multiple productions with Antaeus Theatre Company including: Cousin Bette, King Lear, Pera Palas (Boston Court), Peace in Our Time, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and many more. Television credits: Firefly, Scandal, SVU, Medium, Grays Anatomy, CSI, The Crazy Ones, Last Resort and many more including  season one of 24. Film: Munich, Constellation, Not Another Teen Movie. Daniel is also a signed singer/songwriter with multiple TV/film placements. Available on iTunes. Much love and aloha to family, friends, dog and Linda.

At ANTAEUS: Uncle Vanya, Top Girls, The Crucible. LA Theater: Kindertransport (LA Theatre Works), Under Milk Wood, Watch on the Rhine (Will Geer Theatricum), The Secret Garden (Lewis Family Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (Looseleaf Theatre). Film: The Unknown (Siege Films), The Dangle (Best Short, CA Ind. Film Fest). Shannon has been a Quarterfinalist for the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, holds a Merchant Mariner License from the U.S. Coast Guard, and, last fall, she backpacked the 211-mile John Muir Trail in 12 days! Woohoo! She is a graduate of LAMDA and Princeton University.

AT ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Classicsfest. Other Theatre: Hole in the Sky (Circle X); Completeness (VS Theatre); Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, The Velveteen Rabbit (South Coast Repertory); Two Gentlemen of Verona (PA Shakespeare); Romeo and Juliet (Lantern Theatre); The Edge of Our Bodies (Theatre Exile); Thrones! The Musical (Baby Wants Candy at Edinburgh Fringe Festival). TV/Film: Scandal, V/H/S, Serious Music, The UCB Show, Big Time Rush, Ghost Story Club, College Humor. The Groundlings Training Program and Upright Citizens Brigade Maude Alum. Training: B.A., Temple University; M.F.A., University of California, Irvine. Nicole has written for: Comedy Central, UCB, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. www.nicoleerb.com

EVE GORDON (Aimee Semple McPherson): At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson’s, As You Like It, Picnic, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Peace in Our Time, The Autumn Garden. Other Theater: Open House (Skylight Theatre); The Ugly One (EST/LA); The End of the Day (Coast Playhouse); Candide (Goodman Theatre); Hang On To Me (Guthrie Theatre, Peter Sellars); Africanis Instructus (Festival d’Automne, Richard Foreman); Measure for Measure (Yale Repertory Theatre, John Madden); others. TV/FILM: Felicity; Honey We Shrunk Ourselves; Big Little Lies; Irresistible, Don’t Trust the B in Apt 23, others. Training: Brown University and Yale School of Drama.

Kate was most recently in the world premiere of Sheila Callaghan’s award-winning play, Everything You Touch, at Theatre @ Boston Court. Other LA Theatre credits include The Liar, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It With You (Antaeus Theatre Company), I’ll Be Back Before Midnight (The Colony Theatre), The Bungler (A Noise Within), and A Stubborn Woman (Los Angeles Theatre Center). Kate received a BFA in Acting from the School of Dramatic Arts at USC. TV/Film credits include The Bulbar Method; pilot, Death and Cremation, Armynel, Lost Tapes: Bear Lake Monster.

Linda Park has been a series regular on Star Trek Enterprise (CBS), Raines (NBC), Women's Murder Club (ABC) and Crash (Starz). She recurs on Bosch (Amazon), For All Mankind (Apple TV) and Fairfax (Amazon). Her favorite guest star appearances have been The Mentalist (CBS), Castle (ABC), The Affair (Showtime), Claws (TNT) and Amazing Stories (Apple TV).

Regional theatre credits include: Arena Stage (Galileo, Our Town, and The Matchmaker), Guthrie Theater (Candida), Mark Taper II (Sahara-new works fest.), Pasadena Playhouse (Camping with Henry and Tom), The Geffen (Warmusic), The Walnut St Theater (The Price), and The Lucille Lortel and Playwright’s Horizon (Once Upon a Time There Was a Family) in New York and most recently at Sierra Madre Playhouse (A Walk in the Woods). At ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30 and The Wedding Band. On TV he has re-occurring roles on such shows as True Blood, The Closer, Touch, Medium, The Practice, and guest starred on such shows as Fringe, Criminal Minds, Revenge, Mentalist, and Major Crimes (full list on IMDB.com). He has done 45 films including such movies as The Devil Inside, The Hulk, Nutty Professor, Bowfinger and Straight Outta Compton (full list on IMDB.com). John has taught in the juvenile prison system of Los Angeles county for the past 12 years and is head of education outreach of Antaeus where he is one of the creators and the lead teacher of The Odyssey Artist’s Workshop, a Shakespeare and dramatic writing program for the incarcerated and underserved young people of Los Angeles.

At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Picnic, Macbeth, The Curse of Oedipus, Tonight at 8:30 & former Co-Artistic Director. Other theatre: Ah! Wilderness (A Noise Within), Dangerous Corner (Matrix Theatre), Juno & the Paycock (Odyssey Theatre), Ladyhouse Blues (Andak), Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (Tiffany Theatre), The Cavalcaders (Florida Stage), The Beat Generation (Merrimack Rep). TV/Film: South of Nowhere, Star Trek:Deep Space Nine, For the People, The Riches, The Fosters, Leverage, Monk, Judging Amy, Law & Order LA, Patty Hearst, In the Mood, The Longshadow, Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse, I Am I.

At ANTAEUS: Macbeth. Broadway: The Real Thing. Off-Broadway: Journey’s End, Henry IV; Part One, Paradise Lost. Regional: Deathtrap, Mass Appeal, Peccadillo, The King Stag. The Pasadena Playhouse: Diva. Los Angeles: The Day Room, Cock. Hollywood Fringe Fest: His solo show, Five Uneasy Pieces. Film: The Lady Killer. TV: Chasing Life, Scandal, Desperate Housewives, Nip/Tuck, The Good Guys, On the Lot, Cold Case, Splash Too, The Return of the Shaggy Dog, Sinatra, Judging Amy, West Wing, Monk, NYPD Blue, Boston Legal, Castle, Op Center, Grey’s Anatomy.

At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Henry IV, Part One, King Lear, Autumn Garden, as well as, The Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep., Berkeley Rep., American Conservatory Theatre, Old Globe, Portland Centre Stage, Classic Stage Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Royal George, Laguna Playhouse, Theatre on the Square, Merrimack Rep., The Met, The Zephyr, The Evidence Room, Playmakers Rep., among others. And many TV & Film credits. He is currently recurring on NBC's Odyssey. 

At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, As You Like It, Hedda Gabler, Cloud 9. Other Theater: Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse. Recent appearances include Tolstoy in Suffolk (Studio C Artists), For Piano and Harpo (Garry Marshall Theater), All the Way (South Coast Repertory). TV: The Orville, Aquarius, Bones.