Hedda Gabler

Written by: Henrik Ibsen, In A Version By: Andrew Upton

Directed by: Steven Robman

Recommended by LA Times

RUN TIME

2 hours and 20 minutes, with one 10-minute intermission

ADVISORY
Recommended for Ages 16+

Ibsen creates one of literature’s most compelling characters in this complex and enigmatic story of a woman trapped in a world she cannot bear. Dark, funny, and explosive, Hedda Gabler asks us to contemplate the harsh differences between expectation and reality.




PRODUCTION TEAM

Director: Steven Robman
Scenic Designer: Se Hyun Oh
Costume Designer: Leah Piehl
Lighting Designer: Leigh Allen
Sound Designer: Cricket Myers
Props Designer: Erin Walley
Production Stage Manager: Kristin Weber
Costume Associate: Lena Sands
Costume Assistant: Beryl Brachmann
Assistant Stage Manager: Grayson Stamps
Assistant Director: Ricka Fisher
Wardrobe Mistress: Kristin Weber
Draper: A. Jeffrey Schoenberg
Scenic Painter: Orlando de la PaZ

Cast

At ANTAEUS: (Founding Member) Hedda Gabler (Stage Raw Award), As You Like It (Ovation Award nomination), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Ovation Award nomination), The Curse of Oedipus and others. Theater: Most recently as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express (La Mirada Playhouse), Mark Taper Forum, American Conservatory Theater, South Coast Rep, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Matrix Theatre, La Mirada, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Center Stage, Milwaukee Rep and the California, Oregon, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals (Fallstaff Nomination 2015, title role in King Lear at USF). Tony was an associate artist, actor, and director at Berkeley Rep from 1980-1990. Directing Credits: SavagesFilumenaThe Night of the Iguana (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The TempestThe Merchant of Venice (California Shakespeare Theater), All’s Well That Ends Well (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Film: BlowMask of ZorroAnnabelleMeddler, John Sayles’ Lonestar, and soon to be released La Llorona. TV: I’m Dying Up Here, Dexter (recurring), Shooter (Recurring), NCIS, The Mentalist, Stargate SG1 (Bra-Tac), Continuum (Kagame series regular), Once Upon a Time (recurring as Gepetto), Castlevania. VO & Mo-Cap: Walden Pond, World of Warcraft, Fallout, Black Ops.
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Daniel Blinkoff*

EJLERT LOVBORG
At ANTAEUS: Hedda Gabler, Macbeth, American Tales, Pera Pelas. Other Theater: Sondheim UnScripted, The Western UnScripted, Chekhov UnScripted, Shakespeare UnScripted (Impro Theatre); The Belle of Belfast (Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA); The Children (The Theatre @ Boston Court); Opus (FountainTheatre – StageSceneLA Award: Best Actor); Major Barbara, An Italian Straw Hat (Garland Award: Best Actor), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, School for Wives, Nostalgia, A Christmas Carol (South Coast Repertory); A Distant Shore (Center Theatre Group). TV/Film credits include: With Honors, Crossing the Bridge, Rockabye, Close to Home (recurring), Charmed, NYPD Blue, Law & Order. Mr. Blinkoff received his MFA from The Yale School of Drama.
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Nike Doukas*

HEDDA GABLER
At ANTAEUS:  Cousin BetteTonight at 8:30, many ClassicsFestsThe 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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At ANTAEUS: Wedding BandTop GirlsPeace In Our Time and many ClassicsFest readings. A2 productions include: CelebrationThe TypistsThe 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 ApocalypseI Am IThe Selling. Can also be seen on the Web in: The SanctumMary OlsonPucker and others. Trained at Drama Studio London and SUNY Purchase. Website: karianneflaathen.com
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Adrian LaTourelle has appeared in numerous television series such as NCIS, Castle, The Legend of Korra, Last Resort, The Closer, House, NCIS:LA, Boston Legal, Without a Trace, Criminal Minds, Numbers, Sons of Anarchy, and Days of Our Lives. His many stage credits include work in some of the best theaters in the country, such as the Mark Taper Forum, the Shakespeare Theater in DC, The Old Globe, the San Jose Rep, the Dallas Theater Center, ANTAEUS, and the Yale Repertory Theater.  Adrian has also worked abroad, performing in theater and film in Russia and the Netherlands.
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Kwana Martinez*

THEA ELVSTED

At ANTAEUS: The Zip Code Plays Season 3, Hedda Gabler, The Curse of Oedipus; staged readings of Ghost Bicycle, Metamorphoses, Once in A Lifetime, The Lark, The Subject, and many more. California highlights include: South Coast Repertory (Our Town, Mr. Wolf, & many Pacific Playwright Festivals and NewSCRipts), Geffen Playhouse (Beheading Columbus, The Writers’ Room) The Old Globe (Compleat Female Stage Beauty), Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara (Crime and Punishment), San Jose Repertory (Sonia Flew), North Coast Repertory (String of Pearls), and work at Laguna Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, and Pasadena Playhouse. Elsewhere: Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Merry Wives of Windsor), Commonwealth Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest), La MaMa, New York Theatre Workshop in collaboration with Mabou Mines, American Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Ashland New Plays Festival, and more. In addition to commercial and TV work, nominated Best Actress for the short, Bonito Secrets; M.F.A. Harvard, B.A. Vassar. kwanamartinez.com

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At ANTAEUS: Tonight at 8:30, Malcontent, Wedding Band, Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler. Lynn has appeared on Broadway in Otherwise Engaged with Tom Courtenay, directed by Harold Pinter; Bedroom Farce with John Lithgow directed by Peter Hall; Charley’s Aunt and the international tour of Brighton Beach Memoirs. Off-Broadway plays include appearances at Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, WPA and NY Shakespeare Festival. Her extensive regional theatre credits include leading roles at South Coast Repertory, (most recently Trip to Bountiful, Rest, Doll’s House, Part 2), Playhouse-in-the Park (Cincinnati), Charles Playhouse (Boston), Hartford Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven), Arena Stage (D.C.). Recent television appearances include Chicago Med and The Fosters.
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Ann Noble*

THEA ELVSTED
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.
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At ANTAEUS: Henry IV, Part One, The Crucible, Macbeth, The Seagull, The Autumn Garden, and ClassicsFest projects A Delicate Balance and Wrecks. The Old Globe: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Best Actor Award), Lincolnesque (Best Featured Actor Award), The Price, The Savannah Disputation. La Jolla: Glengarry Glen Ross (Nominated Best Featured Actor Award). Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Conversations with My Father, The Changing Room, Hamlet. Off Broadway: Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Regional Theater: Other Desert Cities, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, The Price, A Perfect Wedding, A Man for All Seasons, Antony & Cleopatra, A Christmas Carol. Film/TV: IMDB will tell all.
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Amelia White is a proud member of Antaeus.  She has appeared on the Antaeus stage in You Can’t Take it With YouTonight at 8:30 and Penny for a Song. She works in theatre all over the US. Most recently in Blithe Spirit at Northern Stage in VT and in Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike at the Denver Centre, CO.  She  appeared in Silent Sky and Misalliance at So.Coast Rep. (Costa Mesa, CA). Broadway credits include award winning shows Crazy For You in which she created the role of Patricia Fodor, and The Heiress. She won the Theatre World Award for The Accrington Pals (Hudson Guild Theatre, NY) She Trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London and is married to Antaean Geoffrey Wade. AEA member.
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JD Cullum*

JORGEN TESMAN
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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Ned Mochel*

EJLERT LOVBORG
Ned is happy to be on the ANTAEUS stage again. Other Antaeus productions include Hedda Gabler and Native Son. He had the pleasure of reprising his role in Native Son at the Kirk Douglas Theatre when it was chosen to remount in 2019 as part of their annual Block Party. Other LA Theater credits include the Los Angeles premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's A Permanent Image at Rogue Machine Theatre and All My Sons at Pacific Resident Theatre. In Chicago, Ned worked at The Goodman Theatre, The Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Organic Theatre, and many other Midwest regional theaters and Shakespeare festivals. In his other life as a fight choreographer, Ned built the fights for Hamlet and Les Liaisons Dangereuses at ANTAEUS.
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Hedda Gabler is her first production with Antaeus.  Previous local stage credits include Venus In Fur at South Coast Repertory; Tender Napalm at Six01 Studio; The Collector, Jesse Boy, and Green Eyes/Rooming House at Ruskin Theatre Group; Ghosts and Great Expectations at A Noise Within; and Sleeping Ugly at the Santa Monica Playhouse.  Other notable stage credits include Juliet (Romeo & Juliet), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Girl in the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’ Green Eyes, featured at the Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival. Her television and film credits include Rizzoli & Isles, The Mentalist, Medium, Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side, Diagnosis X, the feature film Peacock and the upcoming feature films Within the Dark and Desolation.  Follow Your Bliss!
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Elizabeth is an original creator of Tony and Tina’s Wedding, a graduate of Hofstra University and LAMDA. Theatre: Henry IV, Part One (Antaeus), Cyrano (Independent Shakespeare Co.), A Streetcar Named Desire, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Secret Rapture (SCR), Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (Provincetown Playhouse NY), Henry V with Kevin Kline (the NYSF), As You Like It (Shakespeare & Co), Opera Comique (Kennedy Center), Savage in Limbo (Zephyr). Film: Janeane from Des Moines, Hancock, Red Dragon, Gattaca, and The Game. TV: Masters of Sex, The Mentalist, Charmed, Seinfeld, NYPD Blue, and Star Trek the Next Generation.
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Production Team

Steven Robman

Director

Henrik Ibsen

In A Version By: Andrew Upton
*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

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