Biografia
Spanning more than fifty years above and below-the-line, Jeryll Adler has established an eclectic oeuvre in the entertainment industry. Her earliest assignments included editing for video artist Lillian Schwartz under the auspices of Bell Labs for an installation at MoMA [age 16], and being assigned to do research on behalf of John Jay Iselin as an intern at the WNET TV Lab in NY on Fiber Optics and Interactive Cable Systems [age 22], illuminating prescient conclusions about the future of the internet in 1977.
At the age of 12 Adler first stepped onto a professional stage, singing in a choir at Carnegie Hall, then within that same year at the new Metropolitan Opera House in renowned Basso Jerome Hines original opera I Am The Way. Early training as an actor began at age 16 at the Indian Hill Workshop in Stockbridge, MA with Josephine Abady and Mary Van Dyke. Additional training was at University of N Carolina School of the Arts with Dr. William Jaeger, Lesley Hunt, Joyce Reehling and James Beard. Studies continued at Sarah Lawrence College with John Braswell and Andrei Serban, where Adler completed her BA. Then later as an intern and scholarship student at Ensemble Studio Theatre with David Margulies, Neil Cuthbert and Elinor Renfield. Select performing experience included an invitation resulting from her work at EST to be an actor/member of Arthur Kopit's graduate playwrights unit for City College of New York, as a featured and supporting actor at theatres including La Mama and Theatre for the New City, and supporting work on daytime dramas Another World, Texas and One Life To Live.
Stepping away from performing, Adler landed at Capital Cities/ABC, realizing the beginnings of a notable career in entertainment advertising, marketing & sales, and as a theatre producer both in NY and Los Angeles. While at CC/ABC [Disney] she found herself once again working in daytime drama, as an Account Executive at ABC's Episodes Magazine.
In her early work as a producer, Adler was invited by on screen colleagues at ABC Daytime TV in NY to join Rogue Repertory Company. As Managing Director, Adler produced Marivaux's The Double Inconstancy at SoHo Rep, Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors at The Hudson Guild and the World Premiere of Gordon Dahlquist's Severity's Mistress at The Walker Space.
In 1999, Adler had expanded her oeuvre below-the-line with an invitation from Eugene Hernandez & Mark Rabinowitz in the early days of Indiewire to formalize advertising sales & marketing for the publication. For Indiewire at Sundance in 2000, Adler secured a partnership with Hewlett Packard and Apple Computers launching a 4-color, on-site print daily in Park City. This initiative was subsequently duplicated by both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, and instrumental in establishing high visibility for the young publication
Adler was recruited out of Indiewire for a position that moved her to Los Angeles, launching the next phase of her career. Highlights include [working remotely] Director of Advertising and Associate Publisher [2010 - 2017] for Film @ Lincoln Center, Film Comment Magazine, and the New York Film Festival and as Director of Advertising at The Gotham [formerly the IFP]: [2017 - 2020] functioning as publisher for Filmmaker Magazine.
During her time in Los Angeles, Adler established theatre company Pacific Stages. With Artistic Director Brendon Fox, Adler grew the company to over 100 artists, including Sam Anderson, Jordan Baker, Alan Blumenfeld, Mathew Patrick Davis, Dana Delaney, Seamus Dever, Reed Diamond, Ari Graynor, Estelle Harris, Beth Henley, Russell Hornsby, Gregory Jbara, Kevin Kilner, Sandy Martin, Dan O'Brien, Gabriel Olds, Chris Pine, David Proval, Joe Spano, Seema Sueko, Holland Taylor, Peter Van Norden and Stephen Wadsworth. From 2005-09 @ 30 concert readings were performed throughout Los Angeles. In 2010 two AEA 99 seat plays, Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero and L. Trey Wilson's Something Happened, were produced in El Segundo. Both received Ovation Recommendations, and Something Happened was nominated for four Ovation Awards, winning in the Best New Play category. Something Happened also won the 2010 GLAAD award for Best Los Angeles Production.
In the Fall of 2022 Adler recognized it was finally time to keep a promise to her younger self, semi-retiring from below the line, and renewing her long ago career as an actor. Now living in Austin, Texas, the journey begins upon entering the class of Austin based film acting coach Mona Lee Fultz....
