Turning Over

Antaeus Black Box

Written by: Jeanette Farr

Directed by: Marya Mazor

Martina has always been the best at video games since “turning over” Defender in 1984. The skills she learned with the games that she played got her through many battles. Now Martina is propelled in a world of past traumas video-game style. As she battles levels and the “monsters” from her past can she make the decision to be a better wife, mother, and human?

Cast

Kitty Swink*

LT. BRENDA LEPCIO
At ANTAEUS: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Picnic, Macbeth, The Curse of Oedipus, Tonight at 8:30 & former Co-Artistic Director. Other theatre: Ah! Wilderness (A Noise Within), Dangerous Corner (Matrix Theatre), Juno & the Paycock (Odyssey Theatre), Ladyhouse Blues (Andak), Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (Tiffany Theatre), The Cavalcaders (Florida Stage), The Beat Generation (Merrimack Rep). TV/Film: South of Nowhere, Star Trek:Deep Space Nine, For the People, The Riches, The Fosters, Leverage, Monk, Judging Amy, Law & Order LA, Patty Hearst, In the Mood, The Longshadow, Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse, I Am I.
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Marcelo Tubert*

ROY TAYLOR/CHICO/CORN HUSK MAN
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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Alex Portenko

JIMMY/JAMES

Catia Ojeda*

MARTINA SALGADO
AT ANTAEUS: 90024: Westwood (The Zip Code Plays) Circle ForwardTurning Over (Lab Results). Los Angeles Theatre: Brendan (Theatre Banshee, Ovation nomination), It is Done (Site-Specific, dir. Michael Michetti). National Tour: The 101 Dalmatians Musical, dir. Jerry Zaks. New York & Regional Theatre: Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Gallery Players, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Engeman Theater, Ogunquit Playhouse, Riverside Theatre, FL. TV: Series Regular on Amazon’s Just Add Magic, Recurring Guest Star on AppleTV’s Surfside Girls and Netflix’s Malibu Rescue. Numerous guest appearances include: Selena: The Series, Grey’s Anatomy, Hawaii Five-O, American Housewife, Criminal Minds, 30 Rock, Law & Order. She starred in the indie feature film Closure which picked up seven festival awards including two for Best Actress (Austin Indie Fest, Marbella International Film Festival, Spain). She’s occasionally recognized as “that wife” or “that mom” from “that commercial.” She’s also a real-life wife to writer/director Alex Goldberg, and a real-life mom to their two sons. www.catiaojeda.com
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Kavi is excited to join Antaeus for The Zip Code Plays as Mina in Plucker. She has been keeping busy over Zoom during this quarantine in Anna Mathias’s play Get Me to the Zoom On Time (Skylight Theatre Live); Michelle Kholos Brooks’s Privilege (Rogue Machine Theatre’s Around The Clock); and starred in Aarti Mann’s two-person short film Augury with her daughter Leela, currently in post-productionKavi also starred in the short No Man's Land which just premiered at the Dances With Film Festival in August 2020. In Spring 2019, Kavi starred Off-Broadway in the World Premiere of Rehana Lew-Mirza’s two-hander Hatefck at the WP Theatre with Sendhil Ramamurthy, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt. In Fall 2019, Kavi was part of Bekah Brunstetter’s Miss Lily Gets Boned (West Coast Premiere, Rogue Machine Theatre, Scenie Award: Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy-Drama). TV: Recurring roles on Just Add Magic: Mystery City (Amazon); Heroes (NBC); General Hospital (ABC); Mira; Royal Detective (VO); Criminal Minds; CSI:NY. Theater: Pentecost (Yale Rep); FreeOutgoing (EastWest Players); The Suppliant Women (Getty Viila/RM); A Midsummer Night's Dream & Henry V (Kingsmen Shakespeare). Film: Boris and the Bomb (feature, producer/lead, available on TUBI, Amazon Prime); Karma Calling; The Indian National Award-winning film Janani; LBEM (feature, starring, with Constance Wu, in post), and is shopping her TV pilot Hindju. Most important role to date… mother to Leela. Member of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. B.F.A., NYU. #ConversationsWithKavi KaviLadnier.com
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Theater credits include: world premieres by Neil Labute, EM Lewis, Tom Jacobson, Luis Alfaro; work with A Noise Within, EST/LA, Cornerstone, Moving Arts/The Lion, Son of Semele, Celebration, The Actors' Gang, San Diego Rep, Sledgehammer, Diversionary and New Image Teen Theater directed by Kathy Najimy. TV/Film credits include: Westworld, This Is Us, Brooklyn 99, Glow, Goliath, Bosch, Station 19, Parenthood, Castle, 24, CSI: Miami, Monk, Serenity, Pearl Harbor, Friends, The King of Queens, ER, Nothing Sacred, Party of Five, Never Have I Ever, Upload, 911 Lone Star and all seven seasons of The West Wing. twitter.com/PJSActor
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Production Team

Joseph Bricker

STAGE DIRECTIONS
*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