Slovak flute maker, drag theologian, Russian-Austrian actor. With Uzbek dicks.

starring someone named Reggiemolo (Alex Jason Lee King) on a cross-country trip where he’s mistaken for a criminal and meets The Girl — the trailer shows them kissing a thousand times, so it’s definitely a “no way!” But at the very bottom of the cast list was a handsome boy named Max Brumbaugh.

The name appealed to me because when I was a child, there was a “haunted house” on my grandfather’s estate that belonged to the Brumbaugh family. So I decided to investigate it.

Quite a difficult task. First of all, his last name is not Brumbaugh, but Brunberg. No, it’s Brumbergwith an “m”, and there are quite a few Max Brumbergs.

1. Max Brumberg who makes flutes in the traditional way, with traditional materials: “Each piece is produced individually, just as in nature each branch grows as a perfect individual, it gets its own voice through the craftsmanship of my hand.” He makes Slovakian fujaras, Moldavian kavals, overtone flutes, double flutes and many other types in his shop in Sainte-Croix-Vallée-Français, about two hours north of Montpellier.

Another Max Brumberg is Max Brumberg-Kraus, he/him or they/them. They are the co-founders of the House of Larva Drag Co-operative, performing under the drag persona Çicada L’Amour, producing both small acts and full-blown queer performance art, and are members of the ARC community: “a creative collaboration for theopoetics.”

They graduated from United Theological Seminary in 2020 with an MA in theology and art, and with research interests in queer temporality, queer and feminist theology, cosmology, mythopoetics, ancient tragedy, midrash, embodiment, and reception theory. They are the author of The(y)-ology: Mythopoetry for Gay and Transgender Liberation.

And then there’s the student at the Institute of Russian History in Moscow, with his excited cucumber.

From Linkedin, IMDB and an article in TravelerI have put together the life of Max Brumberg, actor. Of Uzbek and Russian Jewish descent.

Top photo: Uzbek man

Fluent in English, French, German and Russian. Not Uzbek?

Grew up in Vienna and obtained a Masters in Real Estate from Newcastle University in the UK. He then went on to work in structured real estate finance sales. He travelled between Vienna, Belgrade and Bucharest, appearing in commercials and doing stand-up comedy.

While working as a manager at Saxon Bank in Zurich, Max realized that “something was missing… there was a void in my life.” So he moved to LA and enrolled at the Stella Adler School of Acting.

So far he has only six acting credits on the IMDB:

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