Hindle Wakes

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.

At ANTAEUS: The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Diana of Dobson's, The Hothouse, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Mother Courage and her Children, Trial By Jury, Patience, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Wood Demon. A founding member and early co-artistic director. Other Stages: Hillary and Bill (Victory Gardens Theater), The Imaginary Invalid, Glengarry Glen Ross, The First Picture Show (American Conservatory Theater), 36 Views (Laguna Playhouse), Archy and Mehitabel: A Back Alley Opera (The Yard, Chilmark), Temptation, The Wood Demon (Mark Taper Forum), Sex Parasite, Largo Desolato (Taper, Too), The History Boys (Ahmanson Theatre), Durango (East West Players), A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center).

Barry Creyton has worked extensively in British theatre, television and radio and is known nationally in his native Australia as a major identity in all entertainment media. His plays are produced in more than twenty languages, and his young adult novels are published by Random House. He has appeared in plays, revues and musicals in London’s West End, in TV series for BBC, London Weekend and ITV, and has been heard in BBC radio productions and the BBC World Service. In Los Angeles, he’s played Hector Hulot in Cousin Bette and Apollo in The Curse of Oedipus, both for The Antaeus Company, for whom he adapted Noel Coward’s Peace in our Time, winning the Ovation and LA Weekly Theatre awards. He wrote the sketch material for the Off Broadway revue Secrets, which ran for two and a half years. In 2015 he  joined the Off Broadway cast of Tribes playing Christopher for LA Theatre Works. He has been honored with the Kessell Memorial Award for his outstanding contributions to Australian theatre as actor, playwright and director, an honorary award from the Variety Club of Australia, and he received the 2014 international Noel Coward Writing Award. He adapts and directs productions for Blackstone Audio – The Tempest, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet – and for LA Theatre Works – Cyrano de Bergerac.

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

A proud member of the Antaeus Company since 1991, Melinda has appeared in Company productions of Peace in Our Time, Pera Palas, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Patience, The Long Christmas Dinner, Trial By Jury, Tonight at 8:30, The Plot To Overthrow Christmas among others as well as countless readings, workshops and presentations. In the Southern California theater community she has appeared on a number of stages and received an Ovation nomination for her work in The Illustrated Woman and won Dramalogue awards for Fools Die Fast and for her portrayal as Eleonora Duse in Lillian Groag’s The Ladies of the Camellias.  She has worked at regional theaters across the country (most recently as Agatha Christie in Agatha Christie & the BBC Murders), has made numerous guest appearances on television, has lent her talents to several independent films and writes and performs radio comedy with her darling husband, Philip Proctor.

Phil Proctor is a 15-year member of Antaeus and a 50-year member of the thrice-Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre, recognized as one of the “Thirty Greatest Acts of All Time” with a recording in the Library of Congress. He’s appeared on-and-off Broadway, on street corners in the USSR with the Yale Russian Chorus, in many local and regional theatres, on radio, and in scores of films, video games and TV shows. He’s won Theatre World, LA Weekly, LA Free Press and Drama Critics’ awards, and his voice credits include Toy Story, Spirited Away, Monsters, Inc., Seahorse Bob in Finding Nemo, the Drunken French Monkey in Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Vidic in Assassin’s Creed, and Howard DeVille in the Emmy-winning Rugrats, with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is currently featured in the independent films Window of Opportunity, Charity and The Love Addict and tours in a one-man reading of Don Quixote with the L.A. Guitar Quartet.

At ANTAEUS: Debut. Other Theaters: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Jane Bingley) at Ensemble Theatre Company, The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll (Lorina) at Theatre at Boston Court, By the Bog of Cats (Caroline) and The Importance of Being Earnest (Cecily) at Theatre Banshee, the Chicago Company of Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding (Sister Terry), and several seasons with the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival. TV/Film: Switched at Birth, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life, Shameless, Scorpion, Transparent, S.W.A.T., commercials for Wendy’s, Merck, etc. Training: CWRU. Representation: Smith & Hervey/Grimes Talent Agency. Love: JB.

At ANTAEUS: Debut. New York Theater: Unhealthy (HERE), Squiggy and the Goldfish, Trees Like Nails, An Air Balloon Across Antarctica (Cherry Lane Theater). LA Theater: Flowers for Algernon, Oliver! (Deaf West), Theater District (Black Dahlia, LA Ticketholder Award: Best Supporting Actor, Two Garland Award Nominations), and others. Film: Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Love & Other Drugs, Trial By Fire, Houdini. TV: New Girl, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Once and Again, General Hospital, The Brothers Garcia. Web series: Dating Avi, Naked Funeral, Reliance, Wing Women, Bloodlight.