EXTENDED - Added Performances Through July 30, 2023!
"Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not."
Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, now in exile on a deserted island, conjures a magical storm to wreak havoc on those who betrayed him, and when his daughter falls in love with one of the shipwrecked nobles, the past must be confronted and a new future must be contemplated.
Romance, revenge, and raucous comedy combine in Shakespeare’s timeless tale of heartfelt reconciliation. Antaeus Company Member Nike Doukas (The Hothouse) helms this production featuring original music, live musicians, and wondrous surprises.
PRODUCTION TEAM
DIRECTOR: Nike Doukas SCENIC DESIGNER: Angela Balogh Calin COSTUME DESIGNER: Julie Keen LIGHTING DESIGNER: Vickie Scott SOUND DESIGNER/FOLEY DESIGNER: Jeff Gardner COMPOSER: John Ballinger PROPS DESIGNER: Shen Heckel VOCAL CAPTAIN: John Allee PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER: Claire Fogle ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER: Talya Camras ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Kaite Brandt ARTWORK PHOTOGRAPHY: Frank Ishman
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At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, The Curse of Oedipus. Recent: King of France, All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within). LA: Chutes&Ladders, Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum), Citizen: An American Lyric (Kirk Douglas Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Ahmanson Theater), Solly Two Kings, Gem of the Ocean (u/s, A Noise Within), Off the Rails (Native Voices), Prometheus Bound (Getty Villa), Citizen: An American Lyric, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Fountain Theatre), Mother Courage (Theatre @ Boston Court). Regional: Ghost/Claudius in Hamlet and Bottom in AMidsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco); Henry V and The Man Who Came to Dinner (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Othello (California Shakespeare Festival); the Denver Theatre Center; Actors Theatre of Louisville; the Long Wharf Theatre; the Shakespeare Theatre (DC); and PlayMakers Rep. New York: Broadway (Electra). Film: Celebrity,The Farm. Recent TV: Call Me Kat,Modern Family, Rake. Awards: Ovation and LADCC for Acting Ensemble: The Ballad of Emmett Till.
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 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.
Elinor is honored to make her ANTAEUS debut. Notably, she has worked with Sir Alan Ayckbourn in the American premiere of Sugar Daddies at ACT Theatre in Seattle, and Paula Vogel in the inaugural Hearst Theater Lab Initiative Distinguished Visiting Playwright-in-Residence at UCLA. Favorite roles include Kyra in Skylight at ACT, Michelle in For the Love Of at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and Raina in Arms and the Man at The Jewel Theatre, also directed by Nike Doukas. Her most recent TV credits include guest starring on 9-1-1 (Fox) and Legacies (CW), co-starring on The Dropout and Bust Down, and appearing in several national commercials.
John has played in many productions including Assassins at LATC, In Trousers L.A+NY, Working at The Skirball for NPR, Nunsense at LaMirada w/Joanne Worley. John tours regularly with Laura Ellis and just finished recording John Allee’s (Sebastian) latest album Past Imperfect.
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.
Ms. McClain has worked in all aspects of the theater discipline, recurred and guest starred on TV and numerous films. Two-time Ovation Award, LA Drama Critics Award, and NAACP Theatre Award nominee for Wedding Band and Raisin in the Sun. Has worked at such notable theaters as The Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Alliance Theatre, Alley Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Two River Theatre, Musical Theatre West, Syracuse Stage, McCarter Theatre, A.R.T., Spoleto Festival, New York Shakespeare Theatre, 2nd Stage, N.E.C., New Federal Theatre, Classic Theatre Company, Hudson Guild, Billie Holiday Theatre, Coconut Grove, A Noise Within. Directorial credits include: The Play that Goes Wrong, Cabaret, Spring Awakening, Ain’t Misbehavin,’ Breath and Imagination, Flyin’ West, Spunk, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, The Colored Museum, For Colored Girls, Dancing Lessons, Intimate Apparel, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Fantasticks, and In the Continuum.
Peter Mendoza was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He studied theater, stage combat, and dance at East Los Angeles College. At ANTAEUS: Belyaev in Three Days In The Country. Other Theater: Oscar in Sweat (Mark Taper Forum), Elliot in Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Oedipus in Oedipus El Rey (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Digital Stage), Henry Reyna in Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum, U/S); Hason in Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (The Rep. Theatre of St. Louis); Rafael in La Piedra Oscura; Don Carlos in Los Empeños de una Casa, Paco in Salon Mexico, Don Juan Tenorio in El Burlador de Sevilla (Bilingual Foundation of the Arts). TV: Perry Mason (HBO), From Scratch (Netflix), Shooter (USA), NCIS (CBS), Snowfall (FX), Casual (HULU), On My Block (Netflix). Film: Dead Bullet, Nathan's Kingdom, Parasites, Tecato, Hello to Never, Ana Maria in Novella Land.
At ANTAEUS: Love and Information, As You Like It. Other Theater: Worst Laid Plans (Upright Citizens Brigade, co-creator); My Break-Up Playlist (Rogue Machine Theatre, writer/performer), Bunny Bunny (Falcon Theatre); The Glass Menagerie (Ensemble Theatre Company); Neil LaBute’s Filthy Talk for Troubled Times (UK premiere). Film/TV: currently recurring in Apple TV's Physical (Season 1, 2 and 3). Rest of credits, visit IMDB. Training: B.F.A. NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, The Meisner Studio, Experimental Theatre Wing and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Anja is a Serbian actor, singer, dancer and writer. Anja is thrilled to be working with ANTAEUS. Other Theater: The Tempest at the Shakespeare Center of LA/After Hours Theatre Company; Louder (Stage Reading)at the Boston Court Pasadena; A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Indecent at the Art of Acting Studio; As You Like It at RADA. Last summer, Anja premiered her original solo show, Steps of Glory, for which she received two nominations at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Keep your eyes peeled for Anja’s debut film Cake in the festival circuit this summer. Education: Professional Conservatory at the Art of Acting Studio, Stella Adler NYC & Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Hugely grateful to the cast and crew of The Tempest, my family, friends and mentors. Enjoy the show! IG: @racicanja
Peter Van Norden has appeared in Antaeus productions of Hamlet (Drama Critics Circle, The Hothouse (2019 Ovation Award for Best Actor), Macbeth, The Liar, American Tales, The Man Who Had All The Luck, and The Zip Code Plays. Other recent appearances include: The Tempest, An Interactive Production at Shakespeare Center LA (where he also covered and performed for Tom Hanks as ‘Falstaff’ in Henry IV, Parts I and II); Red Ink at Playwrights Arena (2020 Ovation Award nomination); 1776 and Singin’ in the Rain at La Mirada Theater; and for three years as ‘Ebeneezer Scrooge’ in A Christmas Carol at the Rubicon Theatre Company. In his native NYC he appeared in Little Johnny Jones (with Donny Osmond), Hamlet (with both Kevin Kline and Sam Waterston), Jungle of Cities (with Al Pacino), Henry V (with Meryl Streep), and Saint Joan (with Lynn Redgrave). His many regional theater appearances include the lead roles in both George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (at San Jose Rep) and Misalliance (at Center Stage, Baltimore). Peter was the first American actor to appear in the title role of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III at Arizona Theatre Company (where he also appeared in Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys). Film and TV roles include leads in The Accused (opposite Oscar winner, Jodie Foster), Police Academy (as Steve Guttenberg’s inept partner), The Naked Gun 2 ½, and the Stephen King mini-series, The Stand. Petervannorden.com
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays (including Hamlet, MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Much ado About Nothing, Richard III, King Lear, and numerous other seminal works), 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Nike Doukas
Director
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.
*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
“THRILLING… The soundscape is rich and there’s the fun of watching the sound effects come to life… will leave you thoroughly entertained.”
Anthony Byrnes, KCRW 89.9 FM
“CLEVER AND FUNNY.”
Carol Edger Germain, Colorado Boulevard
“FUN… creative… The Tempest takes on new life… [a] party.”
Elaine Mura, Splash Magazines
“FANCIFUL…[A] MARVELOUS PRODUCTION… [Director] Doukas and her resourceful, harmonious team know just how to swing it..”
Evan Henerson, Broadway World
“ACCESSIBLE AND FUN, but still manages to bring home its powerful themes of regret, revenge and forgiveness, imprisonment and freedom… RECOMMENDED.”
Guy Picot, GIA ON THE MOVE
“MAGICAL… rhythmic and delightful… irresistible performances by the talented cast.”
Joe Mosqueda Glamgical
“PART MUSICAL, PART RADIO PLAY, AND ALL FUN… [director Nike] Doukas’s comedic timing is right on point… STAGE RAW TOP 10… RECOMMENDED.”
Martίn Hernández, Stage Raw
“THRILLING… [AN] EXTRAORDINARY CAST… the most fun production of The Tempest I’ve seen.”
Michael Doherty, Mostly Shakespeare
“A PURE DELIGHT… the bottom line is that it is a ‘must see.’ ”
Michael Sheehan, On Stage Los Angeles
“FOUR STARS… INSPIRED… a dream of a production… Fun is the name of the game here.”
Rob Stevens, Haines His Way
“ENERGETIC, MUSICAL AND CHARMING… bring[s] the text clearly to life… a fine performance by an excellent troupe of actors through the magic of theatre.”
Robert St. Martin, The Hollywood Times
“WOW!… an inspired concept and flawless execution… Shakespeare has rarely if ever been this much fun.”
Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA
“CLEVER AND AUDACIOUS… VIBRANT MUSICALITY… brims with high energy and joyful creativity and is a complete delight. Better than that, however — this production is not just great; it’s interesting… DON’T MISS IT”
