WOYZECK/PRODUCER

Ryan Czerwonko is the artistic director of Adult Film, and an actor/filmmaker. With guest starring and recurring roles on NBC's The Endgame, Chicago Med, and Chicago Fire, he has also been seen 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 both Boston Center for the Arts and Z Space San Francisco. 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. Upcoming: The Matter of the Disappearance of Michael Anthony Smith, Jr. at En Garde Arts in November, also directed by Seth Bockley.

CAPTAIN

Randall Jaynes is a performer and physical theatre artist. For over two decades he served as a Blue Man and Senior Artistic Director with Blue Man Group. His original works have appeared in NYC and internationally: Billy Nijinsky (New York International Fringe Festival; winner Best Production), Conduct of a Tin Man (Richard Foreman’s Ontological Theatre), The Bird Catchers: a Puppet Opera (South American tour) and The Pinocchio Experiment (Moscow International Solo Festival). His training includes a decade of Grotowski-based intensive physical study (the Polish Lab’s Zbigniew Cynkutis) and he holds a black belt in Southern Shaolin Kung Fu’s Five Animal System. Critic Robert Brustein described him as “a contemporary Buster Keaton,” (American Theatre Magazine), and Ron Daniels (Honorary Artistic Director, The Royal Shakespeare Company) called him “a physical genius”. He is a graduate of Harvard University’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training.

MARIE/PRODUCER

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, she started taking classes with Adult Film and hasn’t looked back since. Favorite stage productions include Cherry Orchard (Adult Film), 4.48 Psychosis (producing body), Vinegar Tom (Red Theater), and Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (Bower Theatre Ensemble). If she's not on her own two feet, she's likely on two wheels dodging traffic on her way to Bushwick.

www.madeline-bernhard.com

THE DOCTOR

Megan Metrikin was born in South Africa and completed her theater studies at the University of Cape Town. She recently performed the roles of Arkadina and Lubov in Adult Film Company’s Sea Gull and Cherry Orchard. She was Amanda in Outraged hearts. Since moving to New York, she has written and performed two solo shows Elephantwoman and Finding Fellini, which won “Best Solo Show" at the Midtown International Theatre Festival and “Best Actress” at the United Solo Festival. Finding Fellini was performed at Theatrelab, La Mama, The New York Fringe and Frigid Festival. Megan also performed the Leading role in Sophiatown, designed by William Kentridge, which toured internationally. She worked extensively at Johannesburg’s Market Theater where credits include The Dybbuk, Flight,  Speed the Plow, The Tempest, Cowboy Mouth, Hamlet, La Ronde, Exit the King, Love Story in Maputo, Calldewey Farce, Tooth and Nail (Handspring Puppet Company) and The Lulu Sex Tragedies. Megan worked for several years in Cape Town’s experimental Glass Theatre Company.Her film work has included performances in Shot Down, which won best film at the Mannheim film festival and The Howling Part IV.

DRUM MAJOR

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.

ANDRES/THE IDIOT

Trevor Clarkson is a Brooklyn-based actor and creative. New to the craft and without formal training, he has been acting with Adult Film for under two years and has quickly taken to it, already building a dynamic and growing body of work. He is a founding member of General Production Studios with collaborator Bradley Sheen. Beyond acting, Trevor writes, directs, shoots, edits, produces, plays guitar/sings (poorly), and can be found rapidly disobeying traffic laws on his treasured bicycle somewhere in the city. His theater credits include Where We're Born (Adult Film), How to Hotwire a Lamppost (Unit J), Cimino's Defeat (Adult Film). On screen, he has appeared in L'Improv (Reddy Lee), 7734 Sunset Place (Travis Frick), Poetry Night (Caedmon Fair), and the self-produced w3b-series (Bradley Sheen)

KATEY/MARGARET/MUSIC ARRANGER

Originally from SOCAL, Stephee (pronounced Stevie) is an actress and singer/songwriter based in NYC. Recent film credits include A Different Man (A24) and Sweethearts (HBO). Recent theater credits include Godmode (Gene Frankel Theater) produced by Girls Carrying Shit and Cowboy Mouth (Adult Film). She’s played original music with Unplugged NY, Living Room Artists, and Breaking Sound NYC. She is the only daughter of a single mother, her grandmother is a psychic, and her eyes can be seen on L’Oréal mascara boxes.
IG: @stepheebonifacio

THE SHOPKEEPER

AJ Molder is an actress based out of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from NYU where she trained at Stella Adler Studio and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Favorite recent theater credits include: Stephanie in Gray Whale (Twenty Something’s), the bassist in Savage/Love (AdultFilm), and Malcolm in Macbeth (Stella Adler). Film credits include Millie Blake in Thanks To Her (now streaming!). When she is not acting, AJ goes to basement shows and is a co-founding member of Twenty Somethings Productions (@twentysomethingsnyc). And in the spirit of Kate Hudson she wants to remind all the girls to “never take it too seriously.”

U/S MARIE

Hannah Hale has taken part in several staged readings and workshops, including: The Gingerbread Lady directed by Sheryl Kaller, Wilma by Abby Rosebrock, at Manhattan Theatre Club, Acting School by Kathleen Tolan, at Ensemble Studio Theater, and herakles, directed by Kip Fagan at Rutgers Theatre Company. In 2018 she starred in the two-hander play Less Than 50%, a millennial’s take on ANNIE HALL written by and co-starring comedian Gianmarco Soresi at 59E59. Hannah was also a creative consultant on the Oscar winning cult-hit film ANORA, directed by Sean Baker. She is currently developing a solo show based on experiences in her early 20s as an actress/ stripper/ nanny in NYC.  She is a graduate of the BFA Acting program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London, UK. She is based in Brooklyn hannahrhale.com  |  Instagram: @babushkagram

DIRECTOR

Seth Bockley  is a writer and theater director. With a career spanning genres and styles, he specializes in literary adaptation and design-driven projects. His plays include Wilderness; King Gilgamesh, Rip van Winkle, February House (with Gabriel Kahane, Public Theater) and 2666 (with Robert Falls, from the novel by Roberto Bolaño) as well as adaptations from stories by George Saunders: Jon and CommComm. He wrote the screenplay for short feature The Cartographer, has published fiction and poetry, and collaborated on interdisciplinary projects such as YOU:MATTER by Marshmallow Laser Feast. With composer Russell Hepplewhite he created the international children’s choir project The World We Share and a forthcoming one-man opera, Les promenades extraordinaires de Basile. He teaches at Columbia University in the School of the Arts, and his upcoming projects include performance broadcast Trickster Makes This with Amir Denzel Hall, Turtle Story by Bill Martin for En Garde Arts, North Pole with Lisbon-based company Mala Voloadora and a road-trip stoner theater/film hybrid Don Quixote. More at sethbockley.com.

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 was staged by Adult Film in 2025. 

Diebbie Saivetz’s New York directing credits include The Conduct of Life for the Maria Irene Fornes marathon (Public Theater); Stephanie Fleischmann's Sound House, inspired by British electronic composer and inventor Daphne Oram (New Georges), Kia Corthron's Julius by Design (Fulcrum Theater), Javier Malpica's Our Dad is in Atlantis (Working Theater) and Sarah Ruhl's LATE: A Cowboy Song (Clubbed Thumb). For the Mexico/United States Playwright Exchange at the Lark Play Development Center, she directed new translations of works by Mexican playwrights Alberto Castillo, Mario Cantú Toscano, Irela de Villers, Cutberto López, Jorge Celaya and Verónica Musalem.

International directing projects include Bess Wohl's Pequeños sonidos con la boca (TAI Escuela Universitaria de Artes, Madrid), Sarah Ruhl's La Casa limpia (Teatro Helénico, Mexico City) and Eurídice (Casa de los Teatros, Oaxaca, Mexico), and Musalem's Rebanadas de vida (Teatro San Ginés, Santiago, Chile; Lab Trece, Mexico City). With Teatro la Llave in Santiago, she has directed works by Dea Loher, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Wajdi Mouawad.

Highlights of her work as an actor include Exodus: LONEtheater/TeatroSOLO, a site-specific intervention created by transdisciplinary artist Matías Umpierrez for NYC's Underground Zero Festival, and The Mormon Project, created in collaboration with director JoAnne Akalaitis, writer Eric Overmyer and production designer Kristi Zea.

Debbie is a Drama League Directing Fellow, a New Georges Affiliated Artist and Audrey Resident, an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and WP Theater Director's Forum, and a former resident director at New Dramatists. She is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Actors' Equity Association and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers. She is the author of An Event in Space: JoAnne Akalaitis in Rehearsal, published by Smith & Kraus. She received her PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and teaches acting and directing at Montclair State University, NJ.

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Josh Barilla is a set, production and costume designer based in NYC. Recent projects: Sheltered at the cell (dir. Liz Peterson), Other People's Dead Dads at Dixon Place (dir. Rory Pelsue), The Great Comet (co-design/dir. Nigel Maister), THE DREAM at Bard (dir. Jorge Shultz). Selected associate/assistant design credits: The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Broadway at MTC (assist. to dots), Cold War Choir Practice (assoc. to Afsoon Pajoufar) at MCC, Meat Suit (assoc. to Jian Jung) at 2ST, Practice (assoc. to Afsoon Pajoufar) and Staff Meal (assoc. to Jian Jung) at Playwrights Horizons. He received his MFA in set design for stage and film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. joshbarilladesign.com

STAGE MANAGER

PR

Joshua Matteo is an actor, creative, and PR agent based out of Briarwood, Queens. Joshua holds a BFA in Acting from Fairfield University and was trained in PR by the incredible Privy Collective in 2025. They wrote/directed the 2019 queer giallo short Mesmeralda which went on to underground acclaim after initially being banned from online streaming services. Joshua appeared as Charlotta in ADULT FILM's production of The Cherry Orchard last year. “There is still time.”

IG: yeshua_matteo

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