STUPID f*ckING BIRD at The Secret Theatre

Queens, NY – Secret Theatre (Thom Harmon, Executive Director, Erin Layton, Sarah Weglowski, Jack Tavcar, Jorden Charley-Whatley, Producing Directors) launches its 2026 season with a scintillating production of Stupid f*cking Bird, based on Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, directed by Jorden Charley-Whatley.

Mash loves Con who is devoted to Nina who is enchanted by Trig, the lover of Con's mother Emma, who loves Trig and herself, and Dev loves Mash and Mash tolerates Dev. Sorn is just happy to be included.

A perfect storm of romantic and artistic entanglements is brewing amongst family, friends, and lovers in Aaron Posner's Stupid f*cking sort-of adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull. Desires and passions unravel and intertwine as these characters grapple with disillusionment, existential rage against the machine, and the audacity of pursuing dreams when society seems perpetually on the brink of calamity.

Starring:
Trig – Bart Black*
Nina – Regina Famatigan
Emma – Laura Frenzer
Mash – Juliet Wolfe

Dev – Aaron Lam

Con – Kyle Watkins

Sorn – Tom Staggs*

Director – Jorden Charley-Whatley**

Assistant Director – Jonathan Mora
Stage Manager – Patricia Roques*
Costume Design - Grace Wylie

Light Design – Ben Hartzell
Music Director - Brian Ott
Sound Design – Rennie Marshall

Intimacy Coordinator – Ginny Harmon

Graphic design by Joe Mann

* Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

**denotes an associate member of SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society)

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