The Trojan Women
Antaeus Black Box
Written by: Euripides, Translated by Edith Hamilton
Directed by: Andi Chapman
Directed by: Andi Chapman
“The poet of the world’s grief.” In what has been called the greatest anti-war play of all time, Euripides presents the pain, suffering, and resilience of the widowed Trojan women, about to become slaves of the Greeks after a brutal 10 years’ war. And all caused by a man’s lust for a beautiful seductress, or was it by the quarreling gods?
Cast
Bo Foxworth*
Menelaus
Bo has been a proud member of Antaeus for a decade now appearing in productions of Measure for Measure as Lucio/Juliet, Cloud 9 (LADCC and Stage Raw Best Actor Winner), Henry IV, The Liar, The Crucible (Ovation nomination), the title role in Macbeth, The Seagull and The Malcontent. Other LA theater includes Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing with SOC and Arthur Miller’s The Price at I.C.T., Henslowe in Shakespeare in Love at South Coast Rep, King Charles III at Pasadena Playhouse and Building The Wall at the Fountain Theatre. He has also worked at The Skylight Theatre, Ensemble Theater Company, La Mirada, Laguna Playhouse, The Geffen, Disney Hall, LATheatreWorks, Theater @Boston Court, The Hollywood Bowl and A Noise Within where he received two Ovation nominations. He has worked in numerous theaters in NY including a year in the Off-Broadway Way hit As Bee’s in Honey Drown at the Lucile Lortel. He has appeared in regional theatre’s through out the country including The Long Wharf, Yale Rep, The Shakespeare Theatre, Vienna’s English Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, The Old Globe and many others. He has numerous film and television credits including Modern Family, VEEP and the HBO movie All The Way starring Bryan Cranston. He is a graduate of UCLA and received his Masters at Yale School of Drama.
At ANTAEUS: Wedding Band, Top Girls, Peace In Our Time and many ClassicsFest readings. A2 productions include: Celebration, The Typists, The Thin Man and The After-Dinner Joke. UK Theatre: The Woman In Black (No.1 UK and Asia Tour), The Gift(London Tour), The Two Noble Kinsman(Latchmere Theatre, Battersea). Film: Diani & Devine Meet The Apocalypse, I Am I, The Selling. Can also be seen on the Web in: The Sanctum, Mary Olson, Pucker and others. Trained at Drama Studio London and SUNY Purchase. Website: karianneflaathen.com
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Veralyn Jones*
Andromache
At ANTAEUS: Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White, You Can't Take It With You; Classicsfests Readings: Metamorphoses, The Trojan Women, The Rover, Along the River, Almost Winter, The Life of Galileo, Caesar and Cleopatra, The African Women. Other Theater: A Noise Within Resident Artist: Gem of the Ocean (Ant Ester), Argonautika (Hera), Mad Woman of Chaillot (Mme. Josephine/Dr. Jardin). Regional: Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Denver Center, The Old Globe, Kirk Douglas. Local: Theatre @ Boston Court, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, LA Women's Shakespeare Company, Lower Depth Theatre. International: The Father (Stockholm, Sweden). Some TV/Film: Nana, S.W.A.T., The Unit, Parenthood, ER, Home Invasion, Southland, Threat Matrix, Brooklyn South, City of Angeles, The Young and the Restless. Artistic Associate Producer at Lower Depth Theatre.
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Elyse Mirto*
Cassandra
At ANTAEUS: Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Audrey in As You Like It. Other LA theaters: Most recently Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love and Mother in Little Black Shadows (South Coast Repertory). Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Boops (Boston Court Pasadena), Barbecue (The Geffen Playhouse), A Flea in Her Ear, The Guardsman, Figaro (A Noise Within, LA Drama Critics Circle nomination), Conviction (The Rubicon Theatre, Ovation nomination), Forever House (Skylight Theatre Company), Steel Magnolias (Laguna Playhouse), Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing (The Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival). New York Theater: White’s Lies (Off-Broadway), Any Day Now (New York Innovative Theatre Award), Next Year in Jerusalem (NYIT nomination), Catch the Fish, The Eternal Husband. Chicago Theater: The Goodman and Chicago Shakespeare Rep. TV: Criminal Minds, Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, NCIS, Cold Case, Law & Order: SVU, Malibu Gothic, and a recurring role on The Last Ship. Elyse has also been seen in numerous independent films and national television commercials. BFA from Western Michigan University. Royal National Theatre of Great Britain.
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Linda Park*
Helen
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).
Liza’s recent stage work includes Lady Macbeth at Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Yolanda/Jody in the New York and Los Angeles Premieres of Pulp Shakespeare (Cherry Lane, SoHo Playhouse, and Theatre Asylum), Lisa in Collected Stories at The Group Rep, Janetta in the World Premiere of The Boomerang Effect at the Odyssey, Lusia in A Shayna Maidel at ICT, and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at Kentucky Shakespeare. She has been seen on television in recurring roles on The Following and Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures, as well as Grey’s Anatomy, Lie to Me, Monk, Big Love, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and Alias. Her film work includes Night Eyes, Salvation Road, and Paul Verhoeven’s Zwartboek (Black Book), which was filmed in her native country, The Netherlands. She is the co-star/producer of the Bard tribute series, This Week in Shakespeare.
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Elizabeth Swain
Hecuba
Elizabeth Swain is an actor, director and teacher, and a member of Antaeus. Directing includes The Winter's Tale (Antaeus); Hamlet (Antaeus); Measure for Measure (co-directed with Armin Shimerman (Antaeus); Romeo and Juliet and Two Noble Kinsmen (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival); An Evening of Betrayal (The 6th Act); 3 Hamlets; 2 Macbeths; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Malcontent (Antaeus); The Rover and The Lucky Chance; and several new plays, most recently The Gatekeepers by Dan Perry. She directed a zoom production of The Comedy of Errors for the Classical Theatre Lab, for whom she has directed many staged readings, including Tartuffe, Richard I & II. For Antaeus she has directed six ClassicsFest readings.
As an actor she has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway and in regional theaters, including The LA Women’s Shakespeare Company and 3 Antaeus productions. On TV she was a regular on Guiding Light and As the World Turns and made guest appearances on many other daytime shows including Dark Shadows.
She has taught at Cal Arts, CSULB, Barnard College, and is Professor Emerita at Marymount Manhattan College. She was awarded an NEH Fellowship to study at Shakespeare’s Globe in London and holds a PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center. Website: elizabethswain.net
Jocelyn Towne*
CHORUS
At ANTAEUS: The Little Foxes, The Hothouse, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Changeling, La Ronde. Other Local Theater: LATW (Steel Magnolias, Fathers and Sons, Amadeus); Playwright’s Arena (Red Ink); The Getty Villa (Phaedra); Sacred Fools (Free $$$). TV: The Kominsky Method, Lodge 49, Gilmore Girls. As a filmmaker: I Am I (writer, actor, director) (Newport Beach Film Festival Winner Outstanding Achievement in Directing & Champs Élysées Film Festival Nominee Audience Award Best American Feature), We’ll Never Have Paris (co-director) (Closing night film at Edinburgh Film Festival, SXSW Audience Award Nominee, Newport Beach Film Festival Winner Best Comedy).
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Geoffrey Wade*
Poseidon
At ANTAEUS: Appeared in The Malcontent, Tonight at 8:30, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Mercadet, Mother Courage, ClassicsFest in 2006 and 2008; co-directed The Crucible. Other directing credits include A Walk in the Woods at Sierra Madre and Ruffian on the Stair. He appeared on Broadway in Translations and An American Daughter; several Off-Broadway productions and tours. Radio work with LA Theatre Works in The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial and Top Secret. Extensive regional work includes South Coast Rep, La Mirada Theater, Lincoln Amphitheatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and The Rep Theatre of St. Louis. Also Pennsylvania Stage, Center Stage, GeVa, the Guthrie, Denver Center and Carbonell nominated performances at the Caldwell. Many leading roles at Vermont’s Weston Playhouse. TV: NCIS, Brothers & Sisters, Numbers, ER, Justice, Monk, Scrubs, King of Queens, Law and Order, and so on. Film: City Hall and the award winning short Tres. He is the staff photographer at ANTAEUS, and has taught at the Academy since 2003.
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Production Team
Andi Chapman
Director
Born in New York City, Ms. Chapman is a director, actor, educator. She is the Associate Artistic Director of Ebony Repertory Theatre. Her directing credits include: The Gospel at Colonus (Ebony Repertory Theatre: 14 Ovation Nominations including Best Play & Best Play Direction, NAACP Theatre Awards 2016 Best Production Winner), Mockingbird, As it is in Heaven, The Ninth Wave, Steel Magnolias (Actors Co-op Theatre Company: Best Director Award), The Dutchman, A Summer Memory and a host of others. Film: The award-winning short films Memorial Street, Elijah’s Song and Why?. As an actress her television, film and stage credits include: NCIS, SMILF, Shameless, Glee, Dexter, 24, Six Feet Under, Short Cuts, The Lower Depths, Blood Wedding. She is currently the Center Theatre Group Program Advisor/Coaching Artist for August Wilson National Monologue Competition. A professor of various universities (Pepperdine, Chapman), she is currently teaching Film Acting at Azusa Pacific University. Ms. Chapman is a graduate of Yale School of Drama/M.F.A and alumna of The American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women. Andi is also a selected participant of the prestigious Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
Euripides .
Writer
Edith Hamilton
Translator
*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
