Theatre Artist
Actor, Director, Educator
Theatre Artist
Actor, Director, Educator
WELCOME
Adrian is a director, actor, producer, and educator. Growing up with one foot in the United States, and the other in Western Europe, he developed a deep passion for the performing arts and its ability to express the richness and the diversity of human experience.
He brings this passion to all of his endeavors.
WHat's Happening!
LAB 30 GALA CELEBRATION
Between Riverside and Crazy
Between Riverside and Crazy
May 25, 2023
LAByrinth Theater Company
The Cutting Room
Director. LAByrinth Theater Company's 30th Season Gala Celebration!
2023 marks LAB’s Thirtieth Anniversary!
For three decades, LAByrinth has developed and produced groundbreaking new work, centering forgotten and disenfranchised voices, and changing the face of America's theatrical landscape in the process. Raise a glass with us on May 25 at The Cutting Room as we present our four founders Paul Calderon, David Deblinger, John Ortiz, and Gary Perez with the Davie Hoghe Award, LAB's highest accolade, which honors those who have shown artistic courage and outstanding dedication to LAByrinth. All Proceeds will help support our mission to empower members, create new work, and keep our programming accessible to all New Yorkers.
Between Riverside and Crazy
Between Riverside and Crazy
Between Riverside and Crazy
Broadway
November 30, 2022 - February 2023
Helen Hayes Theater
Associate Director. City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed — and the Church won’t leave him alone. For ex-cop and recent widower Walter “Pops” Washington and his recently paroled son Junior, the struggle to hold on to one of the last great rent stabilized apartments on Riverside Drive collides with old wounds, sketchy new houseguests, and a final ultimatum in this Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy from Stephen Adly Guirgis. For Pops and Junior, it seems the old days are dead and gone — after a lifetime living Between Riverside and Crazy.
“It’s a dizzying and exciting place to be!” hails The New York Times.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS
LAB 30
GRACELAND TOO
DÍA Y NOCHE
May 10 - 13, 2023
LAByrinth Theater Company
Director. Obituary by Lyle Kessler featuring Margaret Ladd and Lyle Kessler.
2023 marks LAB’s Thirtieth anniversary!
In honor of this milestone, we are hosting a four-day free reading series celebrating the voices that have guided us and the work that has sustained us. We would not be here, thirty years on, without this tribe and we share this achievement with all of you.
Please join us at the Chain Theater from Wednesday, May 10th through Saturday evening May 13th to hear excerpts from the plays you love, conversations among artists you admire and the new material taking us into our fourth decade.
DÍA Y NOCHE
GRACELAND TOO
DÍA Y NOCHE
March 18 - April 15, 2023
LAByrinth Theater Co | 59E59 Theaters
Producer. Sex, drugs, queerness, and punk-rock. Welcome to border city life in El Paso, Texas, 1984. DÍA Y NOCHE is an unfiltered coming-of-age story about class struggles and the search for acceptance between two unlikely friends. Danny is a lower middle-class Chicano punk-rock kid who thinks he might be an artist. Martin is a Black upper-middle class band nerd who is gay and in the closet. Danny and Martin double-date, watch X-rated movies, go to concerts and try to overcome great odds as they navigate the racism and corruption greeting them at the doors to adulthood.
GRACELAND TOO
GRACELAND TOO
23rd ANNUAL BARN SERIES
March 20
Hudson Theatre Works
NJ Theatre Alliance Stages Festival
Director. HTW PlayWorks FREE Reading Series. Inspired by a true story, Graceland Too: The Building Elvis Never Left is a bluesy, tragic tale about the galaxy’s number one Elvis fan, Paul MacLeod, and his antebellum home-turned-Elvis shrine in Holly Springs, Mississippi. As Paul gears up for Elvis Week with the help of former prisoner, Dwight Taylor, two very different worlds collide and Graceland Too will never be the same again.
This event is part of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance 2023 Stages Festival, made possible by support from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey; OceanFirst Foundation; Fund for the New Jersey Blind; New Jersey Manufacturers; and Customers Bank.
FREE Reading
23rd ANNUAL BARN SERIES
23rd ANNUAL BARN SERIES
23rd ANNUAL BARN SERIES
January 30 - February 12, 2023
LAByrith Theater Co | 59E59 Theaters
Director. Diary Play by Madeline Barr (2/1/23) A one woman show constructed almost entirely of old diary entries from the playwright's teenhood interwoven with current day reflections. Through looking back, the playwright is able to answer questions about why she is the woman she is today and create a newfound sense of hope for the woman she might eventually become in the future.
Producer. LAByrinth's free reading festival of new plays. A critical and exciting step in the development of new work. Many of LAB's world premieres have come from the Barn Series, giving audiences a sneak peak into the artistic process, and a chance to see plays before they are the next hot ticket.
WELCOME
23rd ANNUAL BARN SERIES
Elliot & Me: A Musical
October 30 & 31, 2022
Hudson Theatre Works
Director. A patient carrying a terrible weight seeks to unburden themselves, though the therapist they’ve chosen has a few secrets of their own— not least of which is their newest student who seems far, far too quiet…
Elliot & Me: A Musical
23rd ANNUAL BARN SERIES
Elliot & Me: A Musical
June 10 - 25, 2022
Chagrin Valley Little Theatre
Dec 2 - 12, 2021
Hudson Theatre Works
Streamed on demand at Laguna Playhouse & Sonoma Arts
Producer. Elliot & Me is a musical comedy based on the lives of songwriter Elliot Willensky and his younger brother Steven. Elliot and Steven both reflect on the volatile ups and downs of their shared experiences: from their raucous “wonder years” growing up in Bayonne, NJ; to the painful conflict when Elliot defies the expectations of his traditional middle-class Jewish family and drops out of medical school to write pop songs; to Elliot’s rise to stardom writing hits for Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston and Steven’s starry-eyed admiration for his Hollywood lifestyle; and eventually to their role reversals when Elliot’s career hits a few bumps in the road and he needs to rely on Steven for help. Elliot & Me is filled with humor, colorful personalities, unexpected situations, and uplifting musical moments.
Double Blind
TALES FROM SAM SHEPARD
TALES FROM SAM SHEPARD
May 27 - June 11, 2022
Theatre Row
Producer: A Young psychiatrist discovers that her supervisor is experimenting on a mental patient. She tries to save the patient with the help of her lawyer boyfriend.
TALES FROM SAM SHEPARD
TALES FROM SAM SHEPARD
TALES FROM SAM SHEPARD
May 22, 2022
Hudson Theatre Works
Director. Tales from Sam Shepard's Cruising Paradise. A reading of rarely heard pieces by one of America's most important writers.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor, ex-cowboy, and musician Sam Shepard now stands revealed as a storyteller of dazzling artistry. Bleak and wildly funny, touching but stringently unsentimental, these stories give readers a most intimate view of the writer who has become synonymous with the landscape of America. Some of these pieces are beautifully constructed, fully realized short stories, while others are short bursts of dialogue, meditations, diary entries, letters, monologues, phone calls and plaints. Still others seem like myth and lore gleaned from old texts or barrooms. All are strong voice pieces--no surprise from a major playwright.
Hughie
TALES FROM SAM SHEPARD
Through The Fire
February 9 - 27, 2022
Hudson Theatre Works
Role of the Night Clerk. In one of Eugene O'Neill's last works, high-rolling gambler Erie and Hughie, the credulous night clerk at a single-occupancy hotel, were confidants. Hughie admired Erie for his bold lifestyle and Erie considered Hughie his good luck charm. When Hughie dies unexpectedly, Erie's luck changes for the worse and he finds himself in dire straits.
"It is no mean feat to find the room necessary to allow this character to evolve, but Wattenmaker’s Night Clerk does so skillfully." - Patrick Maley, Star Ledger
Through The Fire
Through The Fire
Through The Fire
January 20 - February 5, 2022
59E59 Theaters | LAByrith Theater Co
Streamed on demand March 14 - 20
Producer. Inspired by a near-death experience during the peak of the pandemic, Through The Fire follows Victor from his childhood in the DR through moving to NYC, gang life, drug life, identity struggles, love & joining the marines. A story of survival and self-forgiveness directed by Liz Canavan & driven by Victor's original Hip-Hop music.