Ditmas Park
Antaeus Black Box
Written by: Jennifer Rowland
Directed by: Michael John Garces
When 15-year old Tori goes to work as a summer intern for her godmother’s new African American boyfriend, Jamal, everyone is thrilled... until sexually charged photos turn up in Jamal’s office. Then suspicions turn to accusations and accusations turn into paranoia. What exactly is Jamal doing in his garage with teenage Tori?
Cast
Don R. McManus*
BILL
Feature credits include: The Starling, Vice, Under the Silver Lake, Grand Piano, Grandma, The Maze Runner, Lucky Bastard, For A Good Time Call, Magnolia, The Shawshank Redemption, Under the Tuscan Sun, National Treasure, Hannibal, Air Force One. TV credits include: Sorry For Your Loss, Mom, Justified, 24, Northern Exposure, NCIS, Private Practice, Rescue Me, Parks and Recreation, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Dexter, Seinfeld, Frasier, The Closer, CSI, Mad About You. Stage credits include: New York Public Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, San Francisco's ACT, The Old Globe Theater, the Matrix Theater, ANTAEUS. A graduate of Yale University.
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Linda Park*
MYRA
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).
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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).
Emily Goss
TORI
Emily graduated from USC's School of Dramatic Arts and received an MA in Classical Acting from LAMDA. At Anteaus: The Cripple of Inishmaan. Other Theatre: Trying (North Coast Repertory Theatre), The 39 Steps (Malibu Playhouse), A Tale of Two Cities (A Noise Within), Ah, Wilderness! (A Noise Within), Stupid F*cking Bird (Boston Court Pasadena). Television credits include guest stars on L.A.'s Finest, Criminal Minds, Future Man, Castle, Fameless. Feature film credits include Shook, Jane & Emma, The House On Pine Street (winner of 3 Best Actress Awards), and Snapshots (winner of 4 Best Actress Awards).
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Peter James Smith
NICKY/STAGE DIRECTIONS
Theater credits include: world premieres by Neil Labute, EM Lewis, Tom Jacobson, Luis Alfaro; work with A Noise Within, EST/LA, Cornerstone, Moving Arts/The Lion, Son of Semele, Celebration, The Actors' Gang, San Diego Rep, Sledgehammer, Diversionary and New Image Teen Theater directed by Kathy Najimy. TV/Film credits include: Westworld, This Is Us, Brooklyn 99, Glow, Goliath, Bosch, Station 19, Parenthood, Castle, 24, CSI: Miami, Monk, Serenity, Pearl Harbor, Friends, The King of Queens, ER, Nothing Sacred, Party of Five, Never Have I Ever, Upload, 911 Lone Star and all seven seasons of The West Wing. twitter.com/PJSActor
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Bruce Lemon
JAMAL
Cherish Monique Duke*
YOLANDA/STAGE DIRECTIONS
Los Angeles: Everybody, Zip Code Plays - 91505: Burbank "True Sound" (Antaeus Theater Company); August Wilson's "Seven Guitars'' (A Noise Within); Beloved, At The Table (Stage Raw- Best Ensemble and Best Actress Nomination), Friends with Guns, Through the Eye of a Needle (The Road Theater); The Mountaintop (Garry Marshall Theater). Selected NY Credits: The Tragedy at Hood 14542: Hooksickle (International Fringe Festival), Ida B Wells: A Play in Four Parts (Afrikan Woman’s Repertory), Taming of The Shrew (Pulse Theater Ensemble), Timon in Athens (George Bernard Shaw Theater – UK). TV/Film: Black-ish, Jane the Virgin, Pearson, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, and Jimmy Kimmel Live! Training: B.A. New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; Classical Acting – Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London; Member: AEA, SAG-AFTRA. www.
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*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
