LUBOV

Megan Metrikin completed her theater studies at the University of Cape Town. She recently performed the role of Amanda Wingfield in The Pretty Trap with The Fire Weeds and Arkadina with Adult Film’s Sea Gull.  She has written and performed two award winning solo shows "Finding Fellini" and “Elephantwoman.” She performed the leading role in Sophiatown, designed by William Kentridge, which toured internationally. She has worked extensively in Johannesburg’s Market Theatre.

DIRECTOR / LOPAHKIN

Ryan Czerwonko is the artistic director of Adult Film, and an actor/filmmaker. Best known for his guest starring and recurring roles on NBC's "The Endgame", "Chicago Med", and "Chicago Fire", he has also appeared in "Cherry" (AGBO Films), "Paint" (IFC Films), "The Deuce", and "Watchmen" (HBO), among many others, working with directors like The Russo Brothers, James Franco, Nicole Kassell, and Roland Joffe. He appeared in Ariana Grande's music video for her song "Yes, And?", and was recently seen on stage as Zygmunt in "Our Class" from Igor Golyak/Arlekin Players at the Boston Center for the Arts. At AF, Ryan acts, directs, and teaches, and has performed in or directed works by Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, and Lanford Wilson.

ANYA

Raina Soman is a New York-based actress, holding a BFA from NYU Tisch. Recent credits include a co-star role on FBI: Most Wanted and leading roles in independent productions, Gray Whale (Twenty Somethings), Savage/Love (AdultFilm), and The King's Men (Twenty Somethings). Raina is a co-founding member of Twenty Somethings Productions (@twentysomethingsnyc) and a company member at AdultFilm Theater Company (@adultfilm.nyc). She is consistently thankful for the opportunity to get to do her favorite work with her favorite people.

VARYA

Lauren Guglielmello is an actor and creative producer based in New York City. She was most recently seen as Grace in Tennessee Williams’s Interior: Panic, presented by The Fire Weeds, and in a site-specific production of Fefu and Her Friends. She frequently collaborates with and is a company member of Invulnerable Nothings (Bloody Poetry, Crow Play, The Broken Heart) and Adult Film + Theatre Company (Ile, Sea Gull, This is the Rill Speaking). Other credits include how would you like me to atone? at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, Hellish-Half Light at Mary-Arrchie Theatre, and Please Say Yes at Redtwist Theatre in Chicago. She holds a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University, trained at the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart in France, and is passionate about ensemble-driven work, site-specific experiences, and the reimagination of classical texts.

GAEV

Son and grandson of Canadian actors, Simon Fortin trained at the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique du Québec, then at Drama Studio London. A member of both American and Canadian Actors’ Equity for the last 40 years, he has acted and sung in more than 80 professional stage productions in Canada, England and the United States. In Canada, he received many awards and distinctions: three best actor awards at the Prix de la Culture, one Felix award from the ADISQ, and many other nominations including The Dora Award for Best New Play in Toronto, and Best Actor in a Musical at New Hampshire Theater Awards (as Tateh in Ragtime). He has appeared in numerous television shows and films. He is the author of several plays and television dramas produced in both French and English and published in English and Romanian. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC/Radio-Canada) has produced and aired six of his works. In 2005, he received an MA in Shakespeare Studies from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Then he obtained a doctorate degree in English (Renaissance Studies) for his dissertation Dying to Learn, Learning to Die: The Craft of Dying in Early Modern English Drama, from City University of New York, Graduate Center. 

DUNYASHA

Madeline Bernhard is an actor and creative based in Brooklyn. Originally from Michigan and after a decade working in storefront theater and independent film in Chicago, her time in New York includes joining Adult Film as a company member. Favorite past stage productions include 4.48 Psychosis (producing body), Vinegar Tom (Red Theater), and Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (Bower Theatre Ensemble). 

www.madeline-bernhard.com

YASHA

Taylor Petracek is a New York City based actor and artist who is exploring the themes of memory, persona, genre, and technology in his work. He’s been featured in guest spots on FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, and Law and Order: SVU as well as a number of independent films and NYC theatrical works. His hope is to make sense of the world through creative parallels in a multitude of mediums.

CHARLOTTA

Joshua Matteo is an actor, filmmaker, and drag artist (Celeste Montgomery) based out of Briarwood, Queens. He studied acting and film production at Fairfield University before relocating to New York City. He wrote/directed the 2019 queer horror short Mesmeralda which went on to underground acclaim after initially being banned from online streaming services. He is thrilled to be making his ADULT FILM debut, which is his first on stage theatrical performance after a 10 year hiatus. He would like to thank Ryan, Ross Shenker, David Garelik, the entire Cherry Orchard team, his AF Scene Study class, and all his friends and family

TROFIMOV

Ethan Navarro is an actor based in NYC. He is a company member of Adult Film, and has appeared in numerous AF productions, including This is the Rill Speaking and Skedaddle Bar. He has performed across a range of New York venues, but is especially proud to be a part of this production. 

PISCHIN

Jay Geist is thrilled to be working with Adult Film, Cherry Orchard is Jay's first production with the company! Jay studied theater at Ohio University, moved to New York many years ago, and continues to act and teach Michael Checkhov technique. Jay is honored to be working with such a talented and skilled team. Hope you enjoy the show!

EPIKHODOV

Matthew Zimmerman is an actor and theater educator based in Brooklyn. Recent theater work includes Rajiv Joseph's King James at Shadowland Stages and the premiere of Leah Mijalski-Fahim's Face Value in the Downtown Urban Arts Festival. Previous credits include Arms and The Man (Off-Broadway, Gingold Theatrical Group), regional work at Shadowland and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and festivals / indie theater across the country. He's taught acting at Brooklyn College, the Play Group Theatre, and more. MFA Brooklyn College, BFA Marymount Manhattan College.

ADAPTATION / TRANSLATION

John Christopher Jones made his Broadway debut (1977) in Simon Gray’s Otherwise Engaged directed by Harold Pinter. Also on B’way: Hurlyburly, The Rise And Fall of Little Voice, A Month In The Country, The Suicide, London Assurance, Democracy, The Goodbye Girl, Tom Sawyer, Absurd Person Singular, Heartbreak House, and Jose Quintero’s great revival of The Iceman Cometh starring Jason Robards. Other New York highlights include Nathan the Wise, Quartermaine’s Terms, Aristocrats, Prin, The Day Room, Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Fuddy Meers, Sight Unseen, Golden Child, Don Juan, Engaged, The Forest, and The Seagull. A founding member of Shakespeare & Company, Mr Jones has performed Troilus, Antipholus of Ephesus, Hal, Proteus, Mercutio, MacBeth, Cloten, Lavatch, Gravedigger, Grumio, Elbow, and Porter. In television he was a regular on three short-lived series; and films include Moonstruck, Awakenings, Desperate Hours, The Hurricane, The Village, Alexander Hamilton, and Substance of Fire. Mr. Jones is an Associate Director of the Depot Theatre in upstate New York. He has adapted for the stage Shaw’s novel, An Unsocial Socialist. He translated The Cherry Orchard for a production at the Classic Stage Company, which is now being produced by Adult Film. 

PRODUCER

JACLYN BETHANY is an EMMY® winning filmmaker, theatremaker, writer, actor, and producer. She graduated from the American Film Institute with an M.F.A. in Directing and an M.A. in Screenwriting at the London Film School, and she studied Theatre at Fordham University. As the founder of BKE Productions, her film work has been screened and distributed worldwide including at festivals such as Santa Barbara and Berlinale. Her newest feature film In Transit, starring Jennifer Ehle and Francois Arnaud which she directed and produced will premiere in competition at the Edinburgh Film Festival in August. She also ran a critically acclaimed female-driven theatre company, The Fire Weeds in New Orleans and NYC and is in the process of founding a new theatre company, IRENE. The Fire Weeds last production Outraged Hearts, two early one acts by Tennessee Williams, was co-produced with Tony® winning Future Home productions. Jaclyn's work focuses on the complexity of femininity, stories from the female identifying queer gaze, as well as her Southern upbringing.

PRODUCTION, VIDEO AND LIGHTING DESIGN

Meg Case is an NYC-based filmmaker who has spent the last decade exploring alternative visual forms across feature films, shorts, music videos, and interdisciplinary theatrical productions as a director and production designer. As one half of Case & Porter, she collaborates with Brad Porter, co-creating films with a distinctly exploratory approach that prioritizes process over result. Their work has been recognized and awarded at festivals and events worldwide, including Les Femmes Underground, NoBudge, Video Art and Experimental FF, and Imagine This Women's FF, and more. Their most recent in-production collaboration, "Chekhovian," was notably awarded a NYFA New Work grant. (caseandporterprojects.com)

PRODUCTION, VIDEO AND LIGHTING DESIGN

Brad Porter is an NYC-based filmmaker with 15 years experience as a director and cinematographer of feature films, shorts, commercials, and interdisciplinary theatrical productions. He received his MFA from Chapman University and has taught filmmaking to undergraduate students at universities in Michigan and England for eight years. Most recently, he's collaborated with his partner, Meg Case, as Case & Porter co-creating transportive films exploring a personal and immediate cinema. Their work has screened and been awarded at festivals and events around the world including Les Femmes Underground, NoBudge, Video Art and Experimental FF, and more. Their most recent in-production collaboration, "Chekhovian," was notably awarded a NYFA New Work grant. (caseandporterprojects.com)

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

River Knight is an actor, writer, and director. Their recent directorial work includes Cowboy Mouth at Adult Film a Theater Company in Bushwick, and The King’s Men at the Waterfront Museum, in Red Hook. Two of River’s own plays have been featured at Twenty Something’s: A Thousand Dreadful Things and Gray Whale (in which they played Chris). They have been a professional theater maker for the last two years following their graduation from NYU where they studied at Stella Adler.

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Tad D'Agostino has a BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan college. This is his first production as stage manager and first production with Adult Film. He is ecstatic to be a part of the team. Recent acting credits; the world premier of Her Resting Place by Ariella Carmel and Dean Haspiel's The War of Woo. The semi-autobiographical short film Ramblin' Down Fifth Ave. co-written and directed by Hunter Gause available though @tadisrad on IG. This Time written and directed by Matthew Gasda. The audio play By Morning also by Matthew Gasda and available through Rock Rising Productions.

COSTUME DESIGNER

Madeline Rostmeyer is an actress, designer, and producer based in New York City. Her recent design work includes The King’s Men (Twenty Somethings), A Thousand Dreadful Things (Twenty Somethings), and FRKNSTN (Experimental Theater Wing). They are a founding member of Twenty Somethings Productions (@twentysomethingsnyc) and a graduate of NYU Tisch where they studied at the Atlantic Acting School.