STUPID FUCKING BIRD
By aaron posner
Sort of adapted from the seagull
by Anton Chekhov
Directed by Adam Ludwig
December 13-15, 2024
Theaterforum Kreuzberg
Eisenbahnstraße 21
Berlin - kreuzberg
Gallery
Photos by Alana Range.
The ensemble
Emiliano Bonetta is an electronic music producer, performer, and sound engineer, as well as a devoted endurance sports enthusiast. He holds an MBA from Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm. His fascination with the acting craft led him to start taking classes at The Acting Muscle. This is his first project with the Ensemble.
Maria Chotou, originally from Greece, works in the events and media industry. Her love of theater began back in Athens, where she participated in student theater groups and performed in local theaters. In 2022, she started taking improv classes in Berlin and joined the English-speaking theater collective Shakespeare: Reloaded, appearing as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew at Neue Bühne Friedrichshain and as Amelia in The House of Bernarda Alba at Theater Verlängertes Wohnzimmer. This is her first performance with the Acting Muscle Ensemble.
Moritz Jäger took his first steps into acting when he went to film school near Stuttgart. He acted in his diploma short film, which he wrote and directed and for which he composed the musical score. After that he started taking acting classes in German and English, had his first encounter with Shakespeare and Goethe on stage, and sang pop and musical as soloist in a choir. He took several Meisner classes in Munich with L.A. based acting coach Kirk Baltz, which gave him the motivation to dig deeper into the world of scene work. He moved to Berlin and started training at The Acting Muscle in 2022, appearing in the last five Ensemble projects. He has also appeared in several short films and a German TV Series.
Lucia Molière has been passionate about acting since performing in school plays as a child. Fluent in four languages and actively learning Portuguese, her curiosity about human expression inspires her craft. Having trained at The Acting Muscle throughout 2024, she is excited to make her Berlin stage debut with the Ensemble. This project is a big step in the pursuit her lifelong dream.
Gaëlle Ptak is a French performing arts enthusiast and musical theater geek who never did anything about it until now. By day she works as a compliance officer, having earned a law degree in France. She began training at The Acting Muscle in 2023 and this is her first appearance with the Ensemble. She isn’t sure exactly how she will continue her acting career, but she is really happy to be here.
Broderick Schofield is a native of Kansas City and has acted on stages across America's mid-west. He was part of the four-actor ensemble in Forbidden Broadway's Greatest Hits at the TADA Theater in Lincoln, Nebraska. Other favorite roles include Peter Van Dan in The Diary of Anne Frank and Theseus in Phaedra. He has performed comedy improv at the Bird Theater in Kansas City. Here in Berlin, he has performed standup at the Kookaburra Comedy Club, and is currently rehearsing a production of The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, which you can see in 2025. He started training at The Acting Muscle in early 2024. This is his first appearance with the Ensemble.
Eléonore Turri has spent the past 20 years dancing and singing onstage, including with the Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal, the Prague State Opera, the Komische Oper Berlin, and most recently with the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm im Theater am Potsdamer Platz. She has studied acting since 2022, and recently played the main role in the mid-length film Mermaid in the Desert. She began training at The Acting Muscle this year and this is her first appearance with the Ensemble. Eléonore is French, raised in Paris, but happily calls Berlin her home.
STUPID FUCKING BIRD is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection.