Nike Doukas Named Antaeus New Artistic Director

Nike Doukas (Photo – antaeus.org)

Antaeus Theatre Company announced that Nike Doukas, a long-time company member, will be the new artistic director.

By News Desk

Nike Doukas will assume the role on September 4, succeeding current artistic director and company member Bill Brochtrup.

Doukas began her professional theater career in the Bay Area, earning her MFA and serving as a company member at the American Conservatory Theatre. Most of her professional life has been based in Los Angeles; she has appeared in 20 productions and countless workshops and readings at the South Coast Repertory Theatre, and has performed at The Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, The Pasadena Playhouse, and Shakespeare Festival LA. Her other theater credits include the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Shakespeare Festival, ACT (Seattle), Shakespeare Santa Cruz, The Jewel Theatre, and Pittsburgh’s PICT Classical Theatre and Kinetic Theatre. Doukas is a 2012 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship recipient. Her Los Angeles directorial debut with Harold Pinter’s The Hothouse at Antaeus garnered 10 Ovation Award nominations and four LA Drama Critic Circle awards. Other directing credits include The Tempest at Antaeus, and productions at A Noise Within, The Ensemble Theatre (Santa Barbara), North Coast Rep (San Diego), The Jewel (Santa Cruz), and Playwright’s Arena (Los Angeles), and PICT Classical Theatre.

Expressing her excitement about the new role, Doukas said, “I am looking forward to this transition in Antaeus with great pleasure and a deep sense of responsibility. I plan to build and expand on what makes Antaeus special: world class actors making classical theater come to life in an intimate space. I plan to continue with Bill’s work; inspiring, surprising and delighting our audiences.”

Antaeus is an actor-driven theater company dedicated to exploring and producing timeless works, grounded in a passion for the classics. The company illuminates diverse human experiences through performance, training, and outreach, believing in the transformative power of live theater.