“And if I die
I will die happy.”
Antigone’s decision to oppose her uncle Kreon’s edict and bury her brother’s body sets into motion a series of events that will challenge the bonds of family, law, and justice. Kenneth Cavander (The Curse of Oedipus) returns to Antaeus in a powerful new adaptation of Sophokles’s Antigone.
Directed by Andy Wolk, this Greek tragedy delves deep into the clash between duty to the state and loyalty to one’s kin.
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At ANTAEUS: As You Like It. Other Theaters: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Royal Family (Theatricum Botanicum) The Comedy of Errors, The Chairs (A Noise Within) Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night (Coeurage Theatre Co.) Proposals (Norris Theater). Regional: McCarter Theatre, Theater at Monmouth, New England Shakespeare Festival. TV: Masters of Sex. www.andystokan.com
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Off Broadway: The Whirligig, One Arm (The New Group); Marjorie Prime (Playwrights Horizons); Yellowface (The Public Theater); Mary Rose (Vineyard Theatre); Voyage of the Carcass (Soho Playhouse). Regional: The Old Globe, Williamstown, Huntington (Elliot Norton and IRNE nominations for Best Lead Actor), Mark Taper Forum, Bay Street Theater. Film/TV includes:12 Monkeys (series regular), Nikita (series regular), Damages (series regular), Vinyl, Elementary, Once Upon A Time, Dark Blue, Gang Related, It’s Always Sunny…, Curvature, The Pill, Morning Glory, Stay. Graduate of Boston University, College of Fine Arts.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who The New York Times calls “one of this country’s most original and illuminating writers,” is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose other credits include Girls (Yale Rep), War (world premiere, Yale Rep; LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre; Echo Theater Company in L.A.; Pulitzer Prize finalist), Appropriate (Signature Theatre; Mark Taper Forum; OBIE Award), An Octoroon (Soho Rep.; Fountain Theatre in L.A.; OBIE Award), and Neighbors (The Public Theater; Matrix Theatre Company in L.A.). A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his most recent honors include the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright from the London Evening Standard, a London Critics’ Circle Award for Most Promising Playwriting, a MacArthur Fellowship (commonly but unofficially known as the “Genius Grant”), the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Jacobs-Jenkins has taught at NYU, Juilliard, Hunter College, and the University of Texas-Austin, and he recently joined the faculty at Yale University.
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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
