Casey J. Adler

Casey J. Adler is a proud member of The Actors Studio play development unit. He produced and developed the series "PICplays: Perform Inform Change," which weaves live storytelling and lectures of contemporary issues with a global assortment of artists and academics from Japan, Puerto Rico, England, and America. He has had play productions and readings by Mixily Presents, Jewish Women’s Theater’s NEXT, The Actors Studio, and Actors Circle Ensemble. He recently finished a six month fellowship as an Inquiry for Artists through the Institute for Jewish Creativity in Los Angeles and has placed as a finalist for Screencraft’s Stageplay Contest, Vitruvian Award, and Top 10 Plays on The Red List. As an actor, Casey has performed on Freeform, Showtime, ABC, and Netflix. He holds a BFA in Theater...

Casey J. Adler is a proud member of The Actors Studio play development unit. He produced and developed the series "PICplays: Perform Inform Change," which weaves live storytelling and lectures of contemporary issues with a global assortment of artists and academics from Japan, Puerto Rico, England, and America. He has had play productions and readings by Mixily Presents, Jewish Women’s Theater’s NEXT, The Actors Studio, and Actors Circle Ensemble. He recently finished a six month fellowship as an Inquiry for Artists through the Institute for Jewish Creativity in Los Angeles and has placed as a finalist for Screencraft’s Stageplay Contest, Vitruvian Award, and Top 10 Plays on The Red List. As an actor, Casey has performed on Freeform, Showtime, ABC, and Netflix. He holds a BFA in Theater Performance and a minor in World Religions from Chapman University.

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Scripts

piñata

by Casey J. Adler

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
commedia dell'arte,
horror,
movement/physical

Your best friend is seeing demons. Do you take him to a shrink or a strip club? Piñata is the story of three criminally immature dudes working through mental health issues.

Your best friend is seeing demons. Do you take him to a shrink or a strip club? Piñata is the story of three criminally immature dudes working through mental health issues.

Incredible Finds, Inc.

by Casey J. Adler

Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
science fiction

Maria, an exploited factory worker, convinces her colleagues to go on strike, in a battle against their company’s dehumanizing strategies. Her efforts are undercut by a rat in the union, who happens to be her childhood best friend.

Maria, an exploited factory worker, convinces her colleagues to go on strike, in a battle against their company’s dehumanizing strategies. Her efforts are undercut by a rat in the union, who happens to be her childhood best friend.

Birdy

by Casey J. Adler

Cast Size
4—5
Genre
drama,
political

Piano makes sense to Birdy Warlo; the keys, the melody, the rhythm. In the most classical of instruments, Birdy found brief success as a philharmonic pianist, but alcoholism and a deep streak of childhood anger destroyed her career and pushed her daughter into the arms of her husband. Forced into teaching amateur musicians and rehabilitating felons inside her cramped Long Beach apartment, she falls further down...

Piano makes sense to Birdy Warlo; the keys, the melody, the rhythm. In the most classical of instruments, Birdy found brief success as a philharmonic pianist, but alcoholism and a deep streak of childhood anger destroyed her career and pushed her daughter into the arms of her husband. Forced into teaching amateur musicians and rehabilitating felons inside her cramped Long Beach apartment, she falls further down her self-destructive spiral of regret and whiskey. When her estranged daughter returns, engaged to the man whom Birdy is still legally married to, Birdy must choose between forgiveness or violence.

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