The star and director
of "Adam"

Video Content:

- Director Max Mayer

- Actor Hugh Dancy


Host Maaika Westen interviews actor Hugh Dancy (playing Adam Raki) and director Max Mayer about the film, "Adam."  In addition to discussing their work in "Adam," the 2009 interviews also have Hugh talking about getting into acting, Hugh's feelings about being named in the UK media as one of the up and coming talents, and Max's working as a director in both film and theatre.

Max Mayer is a founder and producing director of New York Stage and Film, which has presented 25 summer seasons of original plays at the Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar College. Max has directed over fifty new plays including world or US premieres by writers such as John Patrick Shanley, Lee Blessing, Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, Richard Nelson, George F. Walker and Eric Overmyer.  His productions have opened both Off-Broadway and in regional theatres including Arena Stage, Long Wharf and Steppenwolf in Chicago .  He has also written three produced plays. For television, Max has directed episodes of NBC’s The West Wing, ABC’s Alias and CBS’s Family Law.  Max directed his first feature film, "Better Living, "starring Roy Scheider, Olympia Dukakis and Edward Hermann, which opened theatrically in 2000. In 2008, "Adam" was chosen as a winner of the 12th Annual Writers’ Network Fiction and Screenplay Competition. "Adam" is his second feature film.

Graduated with an English Literature degree from St. Peter's College, Oxford, actor Hugh Dancy plays Adam Raki in "Adam."  Some of Hugh's film credits include P.J. Hogan's "Confessions of a Shopaholic," "The Jane Austen Book Club," "Evening," "Beyond The Gates," "King Arthur," "Ella Enchanted," "The Sleeping Dictionary," "Black Hawk Down" and "Young Blades."


Studio Synopsis for "Adam":
Romance can be risky, perplexing and filled with the perils of miscommunication - and that's if you aren't ADAM, for whom life itself is this way. In this heartfelt romantic comedy, Hugh Dancy (“The Jane Austen Book Club,” “Confessions Of A Shopaholic”) stars as Adam, a handsome but intriguing young man who has all his life led a sheltered existence - until he meets his new neighbor, Beth (Rose Byrne, Damages, “28 Weeks Later,” “Knowing”), a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results. Their implausible and enigmatic relationship reveals just how far two people from different realities can stretch in search of an extraordinary connection.

Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ADAM, directed and written by acclaimed theatre director Max Mayer and starring Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Frankie Faison, Mark Linn-Baker with Amy Irving and Peter Gallagher.  The film is produced by Leslie Urdang, Miranda de Pencier and Dean Vanech.  The executive producers are Dan Revers and Christina Weiss Lurie; the co-producers are Gary Giudice and Geoff Linville.  The production team includes director of photography Seamus Tierney, editor Grant Myers, production designer Tamar Gadish, costume designer Alysia Raycraft, music by Christopher Lennertz and music supervisor Robin Urdang.