Casey J. Adler

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...
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.

Plays

  • American Courage In A Fulfillment Center
    Three Amazon employees at a Campbellsville, Kentucky fulfillment center prepare a sit-down strike for the following day. However, when Mitchell, a single father terrified of losing his benefits, informs his co-organizers that human resources plans to beef up security for the secret strike, Lili and Maria try to hold the untethering protest together. Lili and Maria tag team Mitchell with the hard facts of their...
    Three Amazon employees at a Campbellsville, Kentucky fulfillment center prepare a sit-down strike for the following day. However, when Mitchell, a single father terrified of losing his benefits, informs his co-organizers that human resources plans to beef up security for the secret strike, Lili and Maria try to hold the untethering protest together. Lili and Maria tag team Mitchell with the hard facts of their labor: ten minute bathroom breaks, no job security, no guaranteed hours, performance consoles, constant monitors, and the corporate behemoth’s refusal to recognize a union. But it is not enough to convince Mitchell that the strike should continue, especially since a sit-down strike is the most dangerous tactic in the labor movement, which has not been used effectively since the 1930s’ GM Flint Strike. It becomes a tug of war between the parties and Lili, a veteran labor organizer, finally brings the decisive blow. She calls off the strike because of disunity in the ranks and proclaims “we’ll come back another day.” Maria, devastated and exhausted, refuses to back down and packs her supplies bag with what seems to be a sheathed firearm for the strike.
  • Birdy
    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.