Adam Bryx

Adam Bryx earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from Lakehead University and his Ph.D. in Drama and Theatre from the University of California, Irvine. He specializes in modern and avant-garde theatre. He has published articles on theatre history and on post-dramatic and intermedial trends in theatre practice. He founded and directs shows for Kraken Theatre, an experimental theatre company local to Merced. Awarded a Heartland Creative Corps grant in 2023, Kraken produced Patti Smith and Sam Shepard’s Cowboy Mouth, an autobiographical play set in the 1970s that examines the tumultuous relationship of two emerging cultural icons. Kraken’s 2024 production is an apocalyptic adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck. It will bring together Expressionist aesthetics with contemporary eco-critical insights. He teaches courses on theatre, Surrealism, and speculative fiction in English Literature and Environmental Humanities.