Timon of Athens
Antaeus Black Box
Written by: William Shakespeare
Directed by: John DeMita
Directed by: John DeMita
Timon’s compulsive generosity makes him the most popular man in Athens - until his funds run out. Now, embittered by ingratitude, what will happen when his city comes under attack?
Cast
Paul Eiding*
Flaminius
At ANTAEUS: You Can’t Take It With You, Cousin Bette, American Tales, The Man Who Had All The Luck. Other Theater: The Unexpected Man (Geffen Playhouse), Cloud 9 (LA Stage Company), Kalamazoo (Pacific Resident Theatre), Beyond Therapy (L.A. Public Theatre), The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Actor’s Theater of St Paul), Fiddler on the Roof (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre). TV/Film: Grey’s Anatomy, ER, Star Trek: The Next Generation, House of Lies, CSI: Miami, The West Wing, Providence, American Zombie. Web Series: Aliens Anonymous, Empty Space, Riley Parra. Voiceover: Monsters University, WALL·E, Up, A Bug’s Life, Ben 10.
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Nike Doukas*
Flavius
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.
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Eve Gordon*
Lucullus/First Senator
EVE GORDON (Aimee Semple McPherson): At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson’s, As You Like It, Picnic, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Peace in Our Time, The Autumn Garden. Other Theater: Open House (Skylight Theatre); The Ugly One (EST/LA); The End of the Day (Coast Playhouse); Candide (Goodman Theatre); Hang On To Me (Guthrie Theatre, Peter Sellars); Africanis Instructus (Festival d’Automne, Richard Foreman); Measure for Measure (Yale Repertory Theatre, John Madden); others. TV/FILM: Felicity; Honey We Shrunk Ourselves; Big Little Lies; Irresistible, Don’t Trust the B in Apt 23, others. Training: Brown University and Yale School of Drama.
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Michael Kirby*
Lucilius/Caphis
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.
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Leo Marks*
Timon
Previously with Antaeus, Leo has appeared in The Hothouse, Three Days of Rain, and Wedding Band. Other credits include: If I Forget at the Fountain, This Wonderful Life at Rogue Machine (playing every resident of Bedford Falls), Everything That Never Happened and The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll at Boston Court Pasadena, Mysterious Circumstances at the Geffen Playhouse, How to Write a New Book for the Bible at Berkeley Rep and Seattle Rep, A Perfect Wedding at the Kirk Douglas, Hamlet in Jessica Kubzansky’s acclaimed production, and performances at South Coast Rep, The Old Globe, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Actors Theater of Louisville, Pasadena Playhouse, Ahmanson Theatre, The Intiman, PICT, Playwright’s Arena, ACT’s The Strand, Alley Theatre, and Playwrights Horizons. Founding member, New York’s Elevator Repair Service. Awards include an Obie (Heather Woodbury’s Tale of 2Cities), and Stage Raw, LA Ovations, Ticketholder, Bay Area Critics, and LA Drama Critics Circle nominations and awards. He shares the 2023 LADCC Gordon Davidson Award and the Stage Raw “Queen of the Angels” awards for co-leadership of the SB1116 Coalition. TV/Film includes the lead in the award-winning indie feature film The Maestro, now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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Don R. McManus*
Apemantus
Feature credits include: The Starling, Vice, Under the Silver Lake, Grand Piano, Grandma, The Maze Runner, Lucky Bastard, For A Good Time Call, Magnolia, The Shawshank Redemption, Under the Tuscan Sun, National Treasure, Hannibal, Air Force One. TV credits include: Sorry For Your Loss, Mom, Justified, 24, Northern Exposure, NCIS, Private Practice, Rescue Me, Parks and Recreation, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Dexter, Seinfeld, Frasier, The Closer, CSI, Mad About You. Stage credits include: New York Public Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, San Francisco's ACT, The Old Globe Theater, the Matrix Theater, ANTAEUS. A graduate of Yale University.
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Joel Swetow*
Varro/Lucius/Second Senator/Old Athenian
At ANTAEUS: Henry IV, several ClassicsFests, many Workshops and Readings. In Los Angeles theatre: Antony, Antony and Cleopatra, (Theatricum Botanicum); Estragon, Waiting for Godot; Scrooge, A Christmas Carol; Malvolio, Twelfth Night; Vershinin, The Three Sisters; Arnolphe, The School For Wives; title roles in Cymbeline, Tartuffe, Merchant of Venice, among many others, at A Noise Within. Loads of NYC and regional theatre roles including leads in The Normal Heart, Talley’s Folly, and The Sound of Teeth. Directed The Cherry Orchard, As You Like It, Miss Witherspoon, The Learned Ladies, among bunches of other plays. Has recurred and guest starred on tons of TV shows, like Charmed, Burn Notice, and Alias, had leading roles in many films and TV movies (Alice in Wonderland, The Lord of Illusions), and been heard in reams of animated projects, such as The Lorax, and scads of commercials.
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Marcelo Tubert*
A Painter
Marcelo, a founding member of ANTAEUS in 1991, performed in Three Days In The Country, Henry IV Part I, You Can't Take It With You, The Wood Demon, The Man Who Had All the Luck, Trial by Jury, Patience, Of Mice and Men, to name a few. Other Theater: Mark Taper Forum, Yale Rep, Milwaukee Rep, The Old Globe, The Colony Theatre, New Mexico Rep, Taper Too, and Ojai Playwright’s Festival. He received an Ovation award for San Fran Scapin, adapted from Moliere’s Scapin. Marcelo’s many TV, Film and Voiceover credits can be viewed at Marcelo Tubert IMDB or his website marcelotubert.com. Argentinian born, Marcelo and his multi-talented wife Lori are the proud parents of two amazing daughters, Emily, and Sarah. His philosophy: Live Simply, Remain Grateful!
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Todd Waring
A Poet
At ANTAEUS: Macbeth. Broadway: The Real Thing. Off-Broadway: Journey’s End, Henry IV; Part One, Paradise Lost. Regional: Deathtrap, Mass Appeal, Peccadillo, The King Stag. The Pasadena Playhouse: Diva. Los Angeles: The Day Room, Cock. Hollywood Fringe Fest: His solo show, Five Uneasy Pieces. Film: The Lady Killer. TV: Chasing Life, Scandal, Desperate Housewives, Nip/Tuck, The Good Guys, On the Lot, Cold Case, Splash Too, The Return of the Shaggy Dog, Sinatra, Judging Amy, West Wing, Monk, NYPD Blue, Boston Legal, Castle, Op Center, Grey’s Anatomy.
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Patrick Wenk-Wolff*
Alcibiades
At ANTAEUS: The Curse of Oedipus, The Seagull, Peace in our Time, You Can’t Take It With You. Other Theatre Credits: O Rejane (Bootleg Theater); A Christmas Carol (North Coast Rep); Julius Caesar (New Village Arts); The Passion Play (Odyssey Theater); The Lion in Winter (Broadway Theatre, Vista, CA); King Phycus (Hollywood Fringe Festival “Best of Fringe”). TV credits include: The Last Ship, The Ex List, Life on Mars, recurring on Rizzoli & Isles. Has appeared in over a dozen national commercials and several webseries’ including Combustion and Clothing Optional. As well as directed, starred, and edited the webseries Family Valuables and Sidekick & Roommate. Studied acting at Carey Scott’s Rehearsal Room in San Diego, the summer Shakespeare program at RADA, and several Academy classes at Antaeus. A proud member of the Antaeus Company.
Website: https://www.pwwolff.com/
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Stephen Caffrey
Sempronius
At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Henry IV, Part One, King Lear, Autumn Garden, as well as, The Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep., Berkeley Rep., American Conservatory Theatre, Old Globe, Portland Centre Stage, Classic Stage Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Royal George, Laguna Playhouse, Theatre on the Square, Merrimack Rep., The Met, The Zephyr, The Evidence Room, Playmakers Rep., among others. And many TV & Film credits. He is currently recurring on NBC's Odyssey.
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Connor Kelly-Eiding
Servilius/Isidore/Timandra/Ventidius
At ANTAEUS: Picnic. Other Theaters: Dry Land (The Kirk Douglas & The Echo Theater Company), The Wolves (The Echo Theater Company), Apocalypse Play (Moving Arts), Nice Things (Rogue Machine), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Center LA), Four Clowns Presents Hamlet, That Beautiful Laugh, Noah & Jonah (Four Clowns). TV/Film: House of Lies, Locating Silver Lake, Here I Am, Can You Take My Picture, Landings. Training: BFA, USC. @condogg.
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Production Team
John DeMita
Director
At ANTAEUS: The Little Foxes, As You Like It, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Picnic, King Lear. Other Theater: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Intiman Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, American Conservatory Theatre. Directing (over 40 productions): Andak Theatre Company, Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center, El Camino Center for the Performing Arts. FILM/TV credits include: Resident Evil: Vendetta, JAG (4 seasons), series regular on Comedy Central’s The Clinic. Voice Acting: Cars 3, Ninjago, Star Trek: Discovery, Dumbo, among hundreds of others. John is currently a voice director and dubbing supervisor at Netflix, and a professor at USC School of Dramatic Arts.
William Shakespeare
Playwright
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.
