Patience
Written by: W.S. Gilbert, Music by Arthur Sullivan
Directed by: Maryedith Burrell, Music Direction by Jan Powell
Recommended for Ages 16+
Recommended for Ages 16+
The development process for Patience began in January of 1998. In addition to the Antaeans and Guests in the present cast, the following actors also contributed greatly of their time, talent and effort throughout the year: David Byrd, Jennifer Byrd, JD Cullum, Jeanie Hackett, Michael Keenan, Dakin Matthews, Tuck Milligan, John Michael Morgan, Joe Spano, Peter Van Norden, and Mary Kay Wulf.
Antaeus likes to cast its shows “three-deep” to ensure the best possible performance no matter what combination of film and TV jobs, sickness, and/or misadventure occur.
The Patience cast includes actors who have primary responsibility for their role, actors who are equally sharing their roles with other actors, and actors ready to step into any role when needed.
share: means two actors share the role equally in alternate performances cover (C): means the actor is next in line to play that role, if needed deep cover (DC): means the actors is ready to cover the cover actor, if needed
PRODUCTION TEAM
Executive Producer: Dakin Matthews
Producer: John Apicella
Associate Producers: Emily Chase, John Achorn, Melinda Peterson, and Philip Proctor
Stage Manager: Jamieson K. Price
Technical Director: Terry Evans
Set Design: John Binkley
Costume Design: Margaret Rose
Lighting Design: Kathy O’Donohue
Dialect Coach: Nike Douglas
Dance Captain: Janellen Steininger
British Drill Instructor: Peter Dennis
Cardboard Cello: Anne Gee Byrd
Slide Show: John Apicella
Cast
John Apicella*
GROSVENOR/ (DC) COL. CALVERLEY
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).
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Anne Gee Byrd*
(SHARE) LADY JANE/MAIDEN ALTO
At ANTAEUS: Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Autumn Garden and Mother Courage (LA Weekly Award). Other recent credits include: Good People at La Mirada, Three Views of the Same Object and Four Places (LADCC Award) at Rogue Machine Theater, The Savanna Disputation at the Colony Theatre and Kate in All My Sons (LADCC Award) at the Matrix Theater, Breadcrumbs at Theater 150 in Ojai, I Never Sang For My Father with The New American Theater Company. She has also appeared in L.A. at the Mark Taper Forum, the Geffen Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse, L.A. Theater Works, the Odyssey, and the Andak Stage Co. Regionally, she has worked at South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe,San Diego Rep, Seattle Rep, La Jolla Rep, ACT, San Francisco Rep, The American Shakespeare Festival , Connecticut Rep, the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the McCarter, Princeton Rep to name a few. She recently appeared on TV in Murder in the First and in the motion picture Wild.
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Emily Chase*
PATIENCE/ (DC) MAIDEN SOPRANO
Emily Chase recently directed Eight Nights at Antaeus (LA Times Critics Choice, Ovation Recommended). Her other directing credits include Dakin Matthews’s Divorce Court Hell (Antaeus); productions at Sierra Madre Playhouse, The Road Theatre, Theater 40, and numerous developmental workshops at Antaeus, The Road Theatre, Playwrights Union, Moving Arts, Met Theater, and Classical Theater Lab. Her past classes at the Antaeus Academy include: It’s Alive! The Nuts and Bolts of Acting in New Plays; Modern Classics; and Ringing the Rafters: Voice for the Classical Actor. She has taught acting and directed productions at UCLA, the University of Southern California, U.C. Riverside, AMDA, and A Noise Within. She is the Director of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. As an actress, she has performed at Antaeus in As You Like It, Tonight at 8:30, Cousin Bette, Peace In Our Time, Patience, Trial By Jury, The Liar. Additional acting credits include South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, The Matrix Theatre, The El Portal Theatre, Getty Center, Ford Theater, and in TV, film, and web series. She recently starred in the film Ready, which was selected by the Cannes Short Film Corner. Emily earned her M.F.A. from UCLA.
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John DeMita*
(COVER) BUNTHORNE
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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Nike Doukas*
(SHARE) LADY ANGELA/MAIDEN ALTO
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.
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Terry Evans
DRAGOON BASS/BARITONE
At ANTAEUS: Patience, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Mother Courage and Her Children, Trial By Jury, The Proof of the Promise, Pedrolino, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, and others. A former board member, he’s acted, produced, designed, and production managed for Antaeus. He is a founding member of Andak Stage Company. Los Angeles credits include the west coast premieres of Ira Levin’s Cantorial (University of Judaism) and Denial by Peter Sagal (El Portal.) The Angeles of Lemnos, The Merchant of Venice (The Road Company.) and others. He has appeared in films and television, recorded a series of audio books and worked as a voice-over artist. A project manager and design consultant, he conceived and designed one of the three performance venues at the El Portal Theatre. He served on the North Hollywood Public Art Advisory Committee, and in multiple capacities helping develop the NoHo Arts District.
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Anna Mathias*
LADY SAPHIR/ (C) MAIDEN SOPRANO
Anna has appeared at the Royal Court in London, Berkeley Rep, ACT, San Diego Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, and Geffen. Her favorite performances include Peace In Our Time (Ovation Award winner), Holly Jolly Xmas, Deathtroupe, Patience, Trial by Jury, Of Thee I Sing, Bullshot Crummond, Dracula: A Musical Nightmare, Spokesong, and An Evening at Widow Begbick’s. Anna won two Drama-Logue Critic’s Awards for her roles in Footlight Frenzy and The Metamorphosis. She is a member of The Spolin Players, Fred Willard’s MoHo’s, and The Second City Alumni Jam. Anna has appeared with L.A. Theatre Works: Uncle Vanya and Cyrano. Anna’s voice has also graced Better Call Saul, Air Force One for the BBC, Turn, Gossip Girl, NCIS, Water for Elephants, The Hangover, Borat, 24, Dennis the Menace (as Alice Mitchell) as well as countless video games. She has a degree in Dramatic Arts from UC Berkeley.
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Anne McNaughton*
MAIDEN ALTO
Melinda Peterson
(SHARE) LADY ANGELA/ MAIDEN ALTO/ (DC) LADY JANE
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.
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Philip Proctor
DUKE OF DUNSTABLE/ (C) DRAGOON TENOR
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.
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Janellen Steininger*
LADY ELLA/ (C) MAIDEN SOPRANO
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.
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Marcelo Tubert*
DRAGOON TENOR/ (DC) DUKE OF DUNSTABLE
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!
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JD Cullum*
(COVER) TENOR DRAGOON
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.
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Karen Stone
MAIDEN SOPRANO/ (C) LADY SAPHIR/LADY ANGELA/PATIENCE
Larry Braman
DRAGOON BASS/BARITONE/ (C) MAJ. MURGATROYD
Kenneth Danziger
(SHARE) MAJ.MURGATROYD/ (C) COL. CALVERLY/DRAGOON BARITONE
Luck Hari
MAIDEN ALTO/ (C) LADY ELLA/ (DC) LADY ANGELA
Stuart Howard
(SHARE) MAJ. MURGATROYD/DRAGOON TENOR/ (C) GROSVENOR
Jeremy Lawrence
BUNTHRONE/ (DC) DUKE OF DUNSTABLE
Robert Machray
COL. CALVERLEY/ (C) DRAGOON BASS/BARITONE
Laura Otis
MAIDEN SOPRANO/ (C) PATIENCE
Cheryl Tyre-Smith
(SHARE) LADY JANE/ MAIDEN ALTO
Mark Valera
DRAGOON TENOR/ (DC) BUNTHORNE
*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
