Granny, or How To Forgive When You Can’t Forget: A Play in Poems

For writing: There is Evil in this House (2023 Best Ensemble at SheLA, 2019 O'Neill NPC Finalist); Raise Your Hand From the Dead (2023 Best Comedy Nominee); Now and Never (short film). For Stage: There is Evil in this House, Raise Your Hand from the Dead, Freud on Cocaine, Murder Murder Murder, Scripts Gone Wild, Let's Get Silly, The Overlay, Evil Dead: The Musical, Streetcar Named Desire. For Screen: Veneno, The Lady and The Dale, Todo Lo Otro, Finding Bernie, Inner Warrior. UCB Improv. 10+ yrs Standup Comedy.

Theater: Little Women (Playwrights Arena); Washer and Dryer, Steel Magnolias, A Little Night Music, The Joy Luck Club (East West Players); Red Flamboyant (Firebone Theatre). TV/Film: This Country, Mom, Hollywood, Kidding, Baskets, This Is Us, Shameless, Why Women Kill, Animal Kingdom, Hawaii 5-0. Video Game: Ghost of Tsushima (Yuriko); Yakuza: Like a Dragon; Sekiro. Voiceover: Abominables, Onward, Incredibles 2, Boss Baby, Moana, Star Wars (last 5 films). Recurring: Great Pretender, Scissor Seven, Bystanders. HB Studio, The New School for Social Research, La Mama, ETC, and Member of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab.  

Janellen is well-known to Los Angeles theater audiences. She most recently appeared in Native Gardens at Coachella Valley Rep. Other credits: Maria Vasilyevna Voynitskaya in Uncle Vanya at New American Theatre. And she appeared in the original cast of its precursor, The Wood Demon, at The Mark Taper Forum, where she also appeared in A Flaw in the Ointment at Taper Too. Janellen has also performed at The Old Globe. In L.A. at: L.A. Theatreworks, East/West Players, the Getty Villa, The Odyssey, The Fountain Theatre, Sacred Fools,The Evidence Room, 24th Street Theatre, and in several productions with The Antaeus Company of which she is a founding member. She has appeared on TV in shows such as Sleeper Cell, Roseanne, Strong Medicine and in independent films. She has also appeared at regional theaters from Ohio, to New York, to Key West. Janellen is also a jazz vocalist and as a voice over actor, she can be heard in numerous video games, animation, radio and T.V commercials, and dubs English into international television films and series. She helped develop and lead Antaeus’ Education Outreach program and has taught for Antaeus Academy.

Marcelo, a founding member of ANTAEUS in 1991, performed in Three Days In The Country, Henry IV Part I, You Can't Take It With You, The Wood Demon, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Trial by Jury, Patience, Of Mice and Men, to name a few. Other Theater: Mark Taper Forum, Yale Rep, Milwaukee Rep, The Old Globe, The Colony Theatre, New Mexico Rep, Taper Too, and Ojai Playwright’s Festival. He received an Ovation award for San Fran Scapin, adapted from Moliere’s Scapin.  Marcelo’s many TV, Film and Voiceover credits can be viewed at Marcelo Tubert IMDB or his website marcelotubert.com. Argentinian born, Marcelo and his multi-talented wife Lori are the proud parents of two amazing daughters, Emily, and Sarah. His philosophy: Live Simply, Remain Grateful!

At ANTAEUS: Hamlet (Hamlet), Measure for Measure (Angelo/Claudio), Henry IV, Part One (Hal), The Curse of Oedipus (Oedipus), Macbeth (Banquo), The Malcontent (Mendoza), King Lear (Edgar), host of The Zip Code Plays Podcast ; Other Theater: Kirk Douglas, Playwrights Arena,  NY Public, Kennedy Center, Signature,  NJSF, Ojai, O’neil, Yale, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Ma-Yi among others.  TV: Recurring roles on: 12 Monkeys, The West Wing, Dynasty, MacGyver, Notorious, Counterpart, Major Crimes, Medium, Killer Instinct, Sons of Anarchy. Recent Guest Star: 911, Magnum PI,  Big Shot.  BFA: Carnegie Mellon.  Narrator of over 300 audiobooks, including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series. AWARDS: OBIE Award; 16 Earphones awards, Audie award, AudioFile “Golden Voice”- a lifetime achievement in the craft.  This is for Lauren, my hero. And Wilder, my muse. IG/TWTR/FB @ramondeocampo

For writing: There is Evil in this House (2023 Best Ensemble at SheLA, 2019 O'Neill NPC Finalist); Raise Your Hand From the Dead (2023 Best Comedy Nominee); Now and Never (short film). For Stage: There is Evil in this House, Raise Your Hand from the Dead, Freud on Cocaine, Murder Murder Murder, Scripts Gone Wild, Let's Get Silly, The Overlay, Evil Dead: The Musical, Streetcar Named Desire. For Screen: Veneno, The Lady and The Dale, Todo Lo Otro, Finding Bernie, Inner Warrior. UCB Improv. 10+ yrs Standup Comedy.

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.

At ANTAEUS: King  Lear, Macbeth, The Liar, ClassicsFest 2010-11; The Tempest (A Noise Within); Hamlet (The Globe Playhouse); Little Women (Kennedy Center, National Tour); Skylight (The Studio Theatre); Becket (Olney Theatre Center; Henry V with Harry Hamlin , Henry VI (parts I-III)  and Measure for Measure with Kelly McGillis (The Shakespeare Theatre);  The Seagull with Gwyneth Paltrow and Christopher Walken, Our Town with Calista Flockhart and James Whitmore (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: J. Edgar, Lifeform, Fall Time, The Hollywood Sign, and Species 2. He has also toured Fringe Festivals with his award winning one-man show, Kill Your Television. Jeff has sound designed numerous productions at Antaeus including Wedding Band and is the resident foley artist at L.A. Theatre Works.