Once in a Lifetime

John Allee is an Ovation Award nominee and ensemble member of Antaeus, where he has appeared in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Cloud 9, Uncle Vanya, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It with You, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, and more. Other Stage Highlights: The Mystery of Irma Vep, A Man for All Seasons, The Man Who Came to Dinner, 33 Variations (Actors Co-op); Much Ado About Nothing (Kingsmen Shakespeare Co); Little Shop of Horrors (Arizona Theatre Company); Assassins (Los Angeles Theatre Center); Alone Together (Pasadena Playhouse); A Midsummer Night's Dream (LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera); One Thousand Cranes (Mark Taper Forum); and Chaplin (Pre-Broadway). On TV, he played Pasha on the Starz series Flesh and Bone. Podcast audiences can hear him on Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene. John is also an award-winning singer-songwriter and recording artist. His latest album is Past Imperfect. Johnallee.com

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).

THEATRE: AT ANTAEUS (selected): The Seagull (Masha), Dunsinane (Gruah), Pink Mirror Dance (Nuce) & John Gabriel Borkman (Fanny). MATRIX: StickFly (Kimber) – best ensemble Ovation, LADCC, Garland & NAACP, LA Weekly nominated. ROAD – Pursued by Happiness by Keith Huff – best actress Stage Scene LA; Flower Duet by Maura Campbell – best ensemble Stage Scene LA. THEATRE GROUP OF SANTA BARBARA: The Heiress (Catherine Sloper) TV: Criminal Minds, NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy, Medium, ER, Dawson’s Creek, Joan of Arcadia, Tanner on Tanner, Love Life, & The Forgotten. FILM (leads): Double (Cannes),  Life with Fiona (Rome Int’l), Selena Incident (Cannes), & If I Could Tell You – releasing summer 2015.

Gabriel Diani is an award-winning filmmaker, actor, and writer. He wrote, produced, and starred in the horror comedy The Selling which premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival, played at over 30 film festivals, was in the Top 10 of About.com’s Best Horror Movies of 2012, and received rave reviews from The Huffington Post, Ain’t It Cool News, and Filmthreat. He raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter with his creative partner Etta Devine, for their second feature (and directorial debut) Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse. They became minor internet sensations when their Kickstarter campaign “Replacing the N-Word with Robot in Huckleberry Finn” and their short film Girl’s Night Out both went viral. They have also performed at comedy festivals across the country as the comedy duo “Diani & Devine” and have often been compared to classic comedy teams like Nichols and May and Burns and Allen. They recently recorded voices for the popular cartoon Bee and Puppycat.

At ANTAEUS: The Crucible, Macbeth, Our American Hamlet (ClassicsFest 2013). Originally from Munich, Germany – Daniel is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He most recently appeared in the West Coast Premiere of Mac Rogers’ Viral at the Bootleg Theater (Dir. Darin Anthony) Other theatre credits include: Down in Front (World Premiere at Hollywood Fringe), Chris Keller in All My Sons, The Waiting Room (Dir. Art Manke) His film debut came this past Fall, in the David Ayer directed World War Two Drama Fury, starring Brad Pitt.

At ANTAEUS: Top Girls, The Crucible, Nina Variations, Celebration, Cousin Bette, Arcadia, The After Dinner Joke, The Women, Camino Real, and other various readings and workshops. Other Theatre: Arcadia (Sierra Madre Playhouse), Uncle Vanya, Rhinoceros, Freud Scenario, Antigone, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Steel Magnolias.  Films include Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse,The Selling, Stik Men, Brain Dead and Fear Ever After. She is currently starring in the gritty period Western web series Red Bird. Proud AEA & SAG-AFTRA member.

At ANTAEUS: Henry IV Part I, Top Girls. ClassicsFest: Henry IV Part I, The London Cuckolds, Beyond the Horizon. Other work includes collaborations with Huntington Theatre Company, The Actors Studio, Manhattan Shakespeare Project, Columbia University, LAMDA and more. TV: Criminal Minds, General Hospital, Conan. When not at Antaeus, Sally might be found hiking, tweaking a recipe to make it healthier or (let’s be real) to incorporate what she currently has in her fridge, or gazing out the window with her cat, King Henry IX. Yes, that’s his name and he lives up to it. She’s also pretty into photography. Sally is a proud Texan, graduate of Boston University’s BFA program.

Michael has been working with Antaeus since 2001 in A Tale of Charles Dickens, Chekhov x 4, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Henry IV. Other Theatre: Bent, What the Butler Saw, School of Night, The Goat (Mark Taper Forum), Dracula (LA Theatre Works), Tickled Pink (Laguna Playhouse) The American Plan, Romeo and Juliet, Merry Wives of Windsor, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Othello (Old Globe), Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Kingsmen), The Glass Menagerie (Syracuse Stage), Leading Ladies (Barnstormers Theatre), Spite for Spite, Don Juan (Andak Stage Company) Off-Broadway: Othello, Richard III Film: Brown Paper Bag, Weekend at Jesus’, Hells Heart, Connected, Passing Normal, Chase The Slut, Benevolence. MFA Old Globe. For Heather, thanks for everything.

Kate was most recently in the world premiere of Sheila Callaghan’s award-winning play, Everything You Touch, at Theatre @ Boston Court. Other LA Theatre credits include The Liar, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It With You (Antaeus Theatre Company), I’ll Be Back Before Midnight (The Colony Theatre), The Bungler (A Noise Within), and A Stubborn Woman (Los Angeles Theatre Center). Kate received a BFA in Acting from the School of Dramatic Arts at USC. TV/Film credits include The Bulbar Method; pilot, Death and Cremation, Armynel, Lost Tapes: Bear Lake Monster.

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

At ANTAEUS: Hamlet, Cloud 9, As You Like It, Henry IV, Part One, The Curse of Oedipus. Other Theater: Pasadena Playhouse, CTG - The Kirk Douglas and Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, International City Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Disney Concert Hall, 6th Act, Chalk Rep, The Blank, EST/LA, Boston Court, Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Road, Chautauqua Theater Company (NY), Center for New Performance/Huntington Gardens, numerous Off- and Off-Off-B’way. Film: Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon I & II, Taken 3, Bloody Bridget, Zombie Strippers, Deceit. TV: The Good Doctor, Jane the Virgin (recurring), Orville, Scandal, Castle, 90210, Medium, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Victorious, Chemistry, As the World Turns (recurring), among others. Emmy Award Winner for When Things Get Small. VO work in video games, TV/online narration, ads, audio drama podcasts, dubbing, and educational programming. Faculty member at CalArts School of Theater. M.F.A.: UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse, B.A.: Duke (Magna cum laude).

At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan. Other Theater credits include: Stupid F**king Bird (The Garage Theatre), All New People (Actor’s Workout Studio), and various staged readings at Skylight Theatre. Web Series: Parker and The Crew (Disney), Catching a Break. Upcoming Films: Misdirection and Threshold. Training: Studied Theatre at USC and The British American Drama Academy.

Emily graduated from USC's School of Dramatic Arts and received an MA in Classical Acting from LAMDA. At Anteaus: The Cripple of Inishmaan. Other Theatre: Trying (North Coast Repertory Theatre), The 39 Steps (Malibu Playhouse), A Tale of Two Cities (A Noise Within), Ah, Wilderness! (A Noise Within), Stupid F*cking Bird (Boston Court Pasadena). Television credits include guest stars on L.A.'s Finest, Criminal Minds, Future Man, Castle, Fameless. Feature film credits include Shook, Jane & Emma, The House On Pine Street (winner of 3 Best Actress Awards), and Snapshots (winner of 4 Best Actress Awards).

John Allee is an Ovation Award nominee and ensemble member of Antaeus, where he has appeared in The Cripple of Inishmaan, Cloud 9, Uncle Vanya, The Crucible, You Can’t Take It with You, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, and more. Other Stage Highlights: The Mystery of Irma Vep, A Man for All Seasons, The Man Who Came to Dinner, 33 Variations (Actors Co-op); Much Ado About Nothing (Kingsmen Shakespeare Co); Little Shop of Horrors (Arizona Theatre Company); Assassins (Los Angeles Theatre Center); Alone Together (Pasadena Playhouse); A Midsummer Night's Dream (LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera); One Thousand Cranes (Mark Taper Forum); and Chaplin (Pre-Broadway). On TV, he played Pasha on the Starz series Flesh and Bone. Podcast audiences can hear him on Two Dead Girls in Jubeliene. John is also an award-winning singer-songwriter and recording artist. His latest album is Past Imperfect. Johnallee.com