Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Written by: Tennessee Williams

Directed by: Cameron Watson

Recommended by LA Times
Recommended by Ovation

ADVISORY

Recommended for Ages 16+

Filled to the brim with painful secrets and desperate longings, Tennessee Williams’ masterwork is the story of a family breaking down. With iconic roles and beautiful poetry, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a sexy, smoldering descent into a world choking on mendacity.




PRODUCTION TEAM

Director: Cameron Watson
Production Stage Manager: Kristin Weber*
Scenic Designer: Steven Kemp
Lighting Designer: Jared A. Sayeg
Costume Designer: Terri A. Lewis
Props Designer: Erin Walley
Sound Designer: Jeff Gardner
Dialect Coach: Tracy Winters
Fight Choreographer: Bo Foxworth
Assistant Stage Manager: Chandler Reed
Assistant Director: Portia Juliette

Cast

Julia Fletcher has been a theater professional for more than 35 years, working in new play development, as an adapter of the works of Shakespeare, as a director, an Equity stage manager, and a master teacher. She trained and worked as an actor with the American Conservatory Theatre, and has performed with the Old Globe, the Intiman, San Jose Rep, ACT/Seattle, Antaeus, P.C.P.A., and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, among others. She was also the Founding Artistic Director of the Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Theater: Off Broadway: True History (Vineyard Theater), Michael Mayer, Dir; Hologram Theory (Blue Light Theater); Modern Apocalypse (NYS&F), Michael Grief, Dir. Los Angeles productionsMisalliance (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 BetteKing LearPera Palas (Boston Court), Peace in Our TimeMrs. 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: MunichConstellationNot 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.
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John DeMita*

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At ANTAEUS: The Little Foxes, As You Like It, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Picnic, King Lear. Other Theater: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Intiman Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, American Conservatory Theatre. Directing (over 40 productions): Andak Theatre Company, Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center, El Camino Center for the Performing Arts. FILM/TV credits include: Resident Evil: Vendetta, JAG (4 seasons), series regular on Comedy Central’s The Clinic. Voice Acting: Cars 3, Ninjago, Star Trek: Discovery, Dumbo, among hundreds of others. John is currently a voice director and dubbing supervisor at Netflix, and a professor at USC School of Dramatic Arts.
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Dawn Didawick is a founding member. Her varied career has taken her from New York to Europe in the classics and new works. Broadway: All My Sons (Tony Award Best Revival), Regional credits include Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Long Wharf Theater, Hartford Stage Company, Globe Theater in San Diego, Alabama Shakespeare Theater, ART, Seattle, St Louis, and South Coast Repertory Theaters.  Her roles ranged from Dee Dee in Marsha Norman’s The Laundromat to Juliet, Hermia, Titania, Gonzala in works of Shakespeare to Amy and Clara in The Show Off, both productions with one of her theater mentors, Jean Stapelton. She has appeared with her husband, Harry Groener, in many productions including Caught in the Net at The Coconut Grove and Regrets Only at The Cape Playhouse.  Her participation in the development of new works included stints at New Harmony, The Gathering and The Colony (both in Montana). She serves as an honorary board member of The Alpine Theater Project in Whitefish, Montana, and has served as a long time board member of The Antaeus Company. At ANTAEUS: The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Bear, Pera Palas, Autumn Garden, The Seagull, The Crucible, Uncle Vanya, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (multiple nominations and Stage Raw Award for Supporting Female Performance for “Big Mama” )and Three Days in the Country. Over the years she has participated in many Classic Fest readings and workshops, including her favorite as Amanda in Glass Menagerie. Representative film and T.V. credits: Erin Brockovich, Christmas with the Kranks, The Amateurs, I Am I, Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse, Hart of Dixie and Pretty Little Liars.
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Harry Groener is a founding member At ANTAEUS: Pera Palas, Mother Courage, The Bear in Chekhov x Four, and the title role in King Lear (Drama Circle Award), Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (Ovation, Drama Critics Circle and Stage Raw Awards), Three Days In The Country and Uncle Vanya. His multiple Broadway and Off Broadway credits include Crazy For You (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations), Cats (Tony Nomination), Oh Brother!, Oklahoma! (Tony Nomination and received Theater World Award), Harrigan and the Hart, Is there Life After High school, Sleight of Hand, Sunday in the Park with George, Imaginary Friends, and Spamalot. Other Nominations and Awards: Ovation Award Equivocation, Geffen Playhouse, Jefferson Award (The Madness of King George, Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Jefferson Award Nominations: Cyrano De Bergerac, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, William Tecumseh Sherman, The March, Steppenwolf Theater. Other recent credits include: Lincoln and LBJ in Appomattox, The Guthrie Theater; The Train Driver, Long Wharf Theater. Film and Television partial: About Schmidt, Patch Adams, and Road to Perdition, Cure For Wellness, Dear John, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI, How I Met Your Mother, Medium, Bones, Las Vegas, Breaking Bad, The West Wing and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Voyager, and Enterprise.
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Michael has been working with Antaeus since 2001 in A Tale of Charles Dickens, Chekhov x 4, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Henry IV. Other Theatre: Bent, What the Butler Saw, School of Night, The Goat (Mark Taper Forum), Dracula (LA Theatre Works), Tickled Pink (Laguna Playhouse) The American Plan, Romeo and Juliet, Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Othello (Old Globe), Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Kingsmen), The Glass Menagerie (Syracuse Stage), Leading Ladies (Barnstormers Theatre), Spite for Spite, Don Juan (Andak Stage Company) Off-Broadway: Othello, Richard III Film: Brown Paper BagWeekend at Jesus’Hells Heart, Connected, Passing Normal, Chase The Slut, Benevolence. MFA Old Globe. For Heather, thanks for everything.
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At ANTAEUS: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Picnic; Pera Palas, Mercadet, Chekhov X 4, The Women, Of Thee I Sing, Dickens and Crime, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Freddy’s Last Concert (Playwright’s Festival), Regular Joes (LAB RESULTS), multiple ClassicsFests. Other theater credits include Post Office (Mark Taper Forum workshop); The Refugee Hotel (Mark Taper Forum New Works Festival); The Indolent Boys (Wells Fargo Radio Theater); Mortified!; Show & Tell (UCB); Schoolhouse Rock Live! (Theater BAM). Film/TV: Alpha; 100 Girls; Star Trek: First Contact; All My Children; The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, 7th Heaven, Charmed. VO: Sofia the First, Flash Forward. Krinsky is a sought after broadcast host with a focus on entertainment and science/technology. She currently hosts Tomorrow’s World Today on Discovery Networks and Science Channel and works for Marvel Live!, anchoring their red carpet film premieres and special events. She has covered the Oscars and the Emmys, and shot over 30 episodes of the weekly tech show The Spotlight for Tom’s Guide. She was recognized by the Webby Awards for writing/hosting That Indie Film Show and won an Emmy Award for her writing on Emma Approved, a multi-platform adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. tamarakrinsky.com.
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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).
Antaeus shows have been Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Uncle Vanya, Top Girls, You Can't Take It With You and Mrs. Warren's Profession. Other theater credits include: Love In American Times (San Jose Repertory Theater); Facing Our Truth, The Trayvon Martin Plays (Kirk Douglas); All My Sons (The Matrix); and Elektra (Getty Villa).
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A year hardly goes by where Robert does not appear in a play locally or somewhere around the country. Most recently he played in Richmond, VA in Ted Lange’s Lady Patriot, which is the fourth play he has done with Ted. His theatrical home is with the Antaeus Theatre Company where he has most recently played Geronte in David Ives wonderful adaptation of Corneille’s 1648 play, The Liar. His other shows with Antaeus include Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8:30, Cousin Bette and King Lear. Robert has been acting for 51 years and has a robust list of film and TV credits which can be found on imbd.com. Has been married for 48 years to Gwynne who is a psycho-therapist. And they are the proud parents of Katie, also a psycho-therapist and Chris, a fine actor in his own right.
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At ANTAEUS: The Little Foxes, The Hothouse, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Changeling, La Ronde. Other Local Theater: LATW (Steel Magnolias, Fathers and Sons, Amadeus); Playwright’s Arena (Red Ink); The Getty Villa (Phaedra); Sacred Fools (Free $$$). TV: The Kominsky Method, Lodge 49, Gilmore Girls. As a filmmaker: I Am I (writer, actor, director) (Newport Beach Film Festival Winner Outstanding Achievement in Directing & Champs Élysées Film Festival Nominee Audience Award Best American Feature), We’ll Never Have Paris (co-director) (Closing night film at Edinburgh Film Festival, SXSW Audience Award Nominee, Newport Beach Film Festival Winner Best Comedy).
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At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, The Seagull, Peace in our Time, You Can’t Take It With You. Other Theatre Credits: O Rejane (Bootleg Theater); A Christmas Carol (North Coast Rep); Julius Caesar (New Village Arts); The Passion Play (Odyssey Theater); The Lion in Winter (Broadway Theatre, Vista, CA); King Phycus (Hollywood Fringe Festival “Best of Fringe”). TV credits include: The Last Ship, The Ex List, Life on Mars, recurring on Rizzoli & Isles. Has appeared in over a dozen national commercials and several webseries’ including Combustion and Clothing Optional. As well as directed, starred, and edited the webseries Family Valuables and Sidekick & Roommate. Studied acting at Carey Scott’s Rehearsal Room in San Diego, the summer Shakespeare program at RADA, and several Academy classes at Antaeus. A proud member of the Antaeus Company. Website: https://www.pwwolff.com/
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At ANTAEUS: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Uncle Vanya, Top Girls, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Ovation Nomination), Peace in Our Time, King Lear, Cousin Bette and Pera Palas. With South Coast Repertory: Going to A Place Where You Already Are (World Premiere), Five Mile Lake (World Premiere), 4000 Miles, The Parisian Woman (World Premiere), In the Next Room or the vibrator play, A Wrinkle in Time, Emilie (World Premiere) The Heiress and Doubt, a parable. Her other theater credits include Cock at Rogue Machine Theatre (Ovation Award); We Are Proud to Present... at The Matrix Theatre; The Savannah Disputation, Educating Rita and Trying at The Colony Theatre Company; The Cherry Orchard at Center Theatre Group. Film and Television credits include: You Bury Your Own, Zerophilia, Headless Horseman, The Waterhole, Cold Case, Medium, Modern Family, Break a Hip and Kittens in a Cage. She has also narrated several audiobooks including The Vampire Diaries series as well as Sara B. Larson’s DEFY series. She will be featured alongside 8 other LA-based theater actors in the documentary LOVE 99, narrated by Helen Mirren. Mozo earned her BFA from Rutgers University and studied at The Globe Theatre in London.
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Mitchell Edmonds is a Resident Artist for 25 years with A Noise Within, where he has appeared in over 70 productions. He’s also appeared at South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe, Alaska Repertory Theater, A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Mark Taper Forum and ANTAEUS in Henry IV, Part One and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. For TV and Film go to imdb.me/MitchellEdmonds
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At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. For the past 10 years, Tim has performed the classics at Theatricum Botanicum. Recent productions there: The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing and August: Osage County. He was also a long time company member at Shakespeare Santa Monica. Some favorites there: Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors. With the New American Theatre: Julius Caesar, Tempest Redux, I Never Sang for My Father. Some TV and Film credits: Mad Men, Scandal, Lost, Alias, ER, Monk, Pretty Little Liars, Freedom Writers and Space Cowboys.
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At ANTAEUS: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Picnic. Other Theater Credits: The Glass Menagerie (Sierra Madre Playhouse), Henry V and As You Like It (Utah Shakespeare Festival). Most recently seen as Davey on FOX’s Making History and James Bosworth on AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire. BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Henry Greenspan is six years old and in the 2nd grade. He is the oldest of three boys. He caught the acting bug when he played Eugene (the nerdy guy) in his Kindergarten performance of Grease. He loves playing video games, making movies and kicking his mom’s butt at chess.
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Eliza is thrilled to have the chance to play a “No-Neck Monster” with Antaeus at its brand new home. She is in Fourth Grade, and loves to act and sing. Past experience includes several productions with Upstage Theater School, including Into the Woods, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. Eliza also loves singing in her church choir, and singing songs from Hamilton all over the house.
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At ANTAEUS: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Changeling. Vivienne started acting in local theater when she was six years old working with Lee Eisenberg at The Beachwood Children’s Theater Company. At age nine she was cast in Antaeus Theatre Company’s production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as a ‘No Neck Monster’ directed by Cameron Watson. Since then, she has been working in independent film, television, commercials, and theater. In October 2022 she reunited with Cameron Watson in Jennifer Rowland’s audio play The Changeling playing the mysterious child Angelica. In 2016 she starred in her first music video, “I’m Not Your Friend” for the Ruby Friedman Orchestra. She followed that with a breakout role on the TV comedy special “Never Been Kissed” by comedian Nicole Burch anchoring the show as “young Nicole.” Vivienne is currently a reoccurring cast member on the popular YouTube series REACT and recently wrapped production on the feature film The Other You. She has been studying with Lisa Picotte at the Young Actor Workspace for several years and is a member of the HOOLIGANS Improv troupe. Vivienne is fluent in French and attends the International School of Los Angeles (LILA). She enjoys playing guitar, ukulele, piano and is addicted to buying vinyl albums and loves surfing.
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Helen Rose Warshofsky is in second grade and spends a lot of her free time goofing around with her friends, practicing karate, listening to and making music, drawing, and selling papusas at the farmers market. She is thrilled to be performing with the Antaeus Theatre Company in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This is Helen’s theatrical debut.
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Production Team

Cameron Watson

Director
At Antaeus: The Little Foxes, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Picnic, Top Girls. Other theatres: It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street (Pasadena Playhouse); The City of Conversation (Ensemble Theatre Company); Bled for the Household Truth, The Super Variety Match Bonus Round, Cock (Rogue Machine); All My Sons (Matrix Theatre); Trying, On Golden Pond Grace & Glorie (The Colony Theatre); I Never Sang for My Father (New American Theatre); I Capture the Castle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). www.cameron-watson.com
*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