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At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, The Curse of Oedipus. Recent: King of France, All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within). LA: Chutes&Ladders, Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum), Citizen: An American Lyric (Kirk Douglas Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Ahmanson Theater), Solly Two Kings, Gem of the Ocean (u/s, A Noise Within), Off the Rails (Native Voices), Prometheus Bound (Getty Villa), Citizen: An American Lyric, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Fountain Theatre), Mother Courage (Theatre @ Boston Court). Regional: Ghost/Claudius in Hamlet and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco); Henry V and The Man Who Came to Dinner (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Othello (California Shakespeare Festival); the Denver Theatre Center; Actors Theatre of Louisville; the Long Wharf Theatre; the Shakespeare Theatre (DC); and PlayMakers Rep. New York: Broadway (Electra). Film: Celebrity, The Farm. Recent TV: Call Me Kat, Modern Family, Rake. Awards: Ovation and LADCC for Acting Ensemble: The Ballad of Emmett Till.

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.

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.

Elinor is honored to make her ANTAEUS debut. Notably, she has worked with Sir Alan Ayckbourn in the American premiere of Sugar Daddies at ACT Theatre in Seattle, and Paula Vogel in the inaugural Hearst Theater Lab Initiative Distinguished Visiting Playwright-in-Residence at UCLA. Favorite roles include Kyra in Skylight at ACT, Michelle in For the Love Of at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and Raina in Arms and the Man at The Jewel Theatre, also directed by Nike Doukas. Her most recent TV credits include guest starring on 9-1-1 (Fox) and Legacies (CW), co-starring on The Dropout and Bust Down, and appearing in several national commercials.

GERARD JOSEPH  is a multi-hyphenate artist currently based out of LA.  He received his MFA from UCSD, has trained with Maggie Flanigan in NYC, and is a company member at Antaeus Theater Company and The Road Theater in LA. Gerard sends special love and thanks to his parents for their tremendous love and support. IG @whatnextg. Reps welcome.   Los Angeles Theater: FIRST DEEP BREATH - Geffen Playhouse; EVERYBODY - Antaeus Theater Company; 90027: GRIFFITH PARK - THE FIRE IN-BETWEEN - Antaeus Theater Company; KAIROS - Geffen Writers Room; PRESENT BLACK FATHERS - Road Theater Company; A POST-RACIAL USA - HIghways Theater; A TASTE OF HONEY - Odyssey Theater.   New York Theater: AMERICAN LULLABY - Manhattan Theater Club; TERROR SUPERHIGHWAY - Cherry Lane Theater; VII DEADLY SINS - Downtown Theater Festival.     Regional Theater: HONKY - San Diego Rep; HIS GIRL FRIDAY - La Jolla Playhouse; BLUEPRINTS TO FREEDOM - La Jolla Playhouse; DUTCHMAN - Ubuntu Theater Co; RUN MOURNER, RUN - Flashpoint Theater Company; A MATTER OF SECONDS - Walnut Street Theater; TAKE ME OUT - Plays and Players.   Director: ROBBIN, FROM THE HOOD - Road Theater Company; TOPDOG/UNDERDOG - Black Creators Collective; YOU - an immersive experience; SECRET SOCIETY - Alliance Theater.

At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, Diana of Dobson's,  As You Like It, Henry IV Part I, Measure for Measure, and The Curse of Oedipus. Other theater: Vietgone (The Alley Theatre), Sense & Sensibility (South Coast Rep); Love's Labour's Lost, Edward III, and Cyrano de Bergerac (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); Hamlet (The 6th Act); Frankenstein (A Noise Within); The Hard Problem and Vietgone (LA Theatreworks); Gloria and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide (Curious Theatre Company); Colony Collapse (Boston Court Pasadena); Supper (Theatre of NOTE); Rose and the Rime (Sacred Fools); and 99 Histories (Artists at Play). She holds degrees in Theatre and Business from UNCo. DesireeMeeJung.com

Peter Mendoza was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He studied theater, stage combat, and dance at East Los Angeles College. At ANTAEUS: Belyaev in Three Days In The Country. Other Theater: Oscar in Sweat (Mark Taper Forum), Elliot in Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Oedipus in Oedipus El Rey (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Digital Stage), Henry Reyna in Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum, U/S); Hason in Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (The Rep. Theatre of St. Louis); Rafael in La Piedra Oscura; Don Carlos in Los Empeños de una Casa, Paco in Salon Mexico, Don Juan Tenorio in El Burlador de Sevilla (Bilingual Foundation of the Arts). TV: Perry Mason (HBO), From Scratch (Netflix), Shooter (USA), NCIS (CBS), Snowfall (FX), Casual (HULU), On My Block (Netflix). Film: Dead Bullet, Nathan's Kingdom, Parasites, Tecato, Hello to Never, Ana Maria in Novella Land.

Anja is a Serbian actor, singer, dancer and writer. Anja is thrilled to be working with ANTAEUS. Other Theater: The Tempest at the Shakespeare Center of LA/After Hours Theatre Company; Louder (Stage Reading) at the Boston Court Pasadena; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Indecent at the Art of Acting Studio; As You Like It at RADA. Last summer, Anja premiered her original solo show, Steps of Glory, for which she received two nominations at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Keep your eyes peeled for Anja’s debut film Cake in the festival circuit this summer. Education: Professional Conservatory at the Art of Acting Studio, Stella Adler NYC & Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Hugely grateful to the cast and crew of The Tempest, my family, friends and mentors. Enjoy the show! IG: @racicanja

Antaeus debut. Other acting credits include: Macbeth (A Noise Within), Measure Still For Measure (Boston Court), Much Ado About Nothing (A Noise Within), Pericles (New Swan Shakespeare Festival), Ready, Steady, Yeti...Go (Rogue Machine), Henry V (Pacific Resident Theatre), Dancing vs. The Rat Experiment (LaMama), Roberto Zucco (Ohio Theater), Love's Labour's Lost (Baryshnikov Arts Center), The Winter's Tale (San Antonio Shakespeare), Schriebstück (U.S. & Canadian Premieres). Television appearances include: Frankenstein's Monster's Monster (Netflix), Criminal Minds (CBS), Rosewood (Fox), Serious Music (ABC). BFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

At ANTAEUS:  Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, many ClassicsFests, The Liar, and The Wood Demon, plus countless readings.  She is well-known to both California and regional audiences, having performed at South Coast Rep, The Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater, , A.C.T, Berkeley Rep, A Contemporary Theater, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and Shakespeare Festival LA, among others. Her TV credits include Modern Family, NYPD Blue, Numbers, and recurring roles on Desperate Housewives and Almost Perfect.  She also teaches and privately coaches actors; she was the co-teacher of the Antaeus Academy for two years, and also teaches Shakespeare at The Art of Acting and A Noise Within. Additionally, she is an accent coach for television and theater, including Antaeus, A Noise Within, South Coast Repertory, The Pasadena Playhouse, LA Theatre Works, Boston Court, Rogue Machine and Sacred Fools.  She was the recipient of the 2011 Lunt Fontanne Fellowship, a national award to regional theatre actors.  MFA, The American Conservatory Theatre.