Jack Willis will star in the American Conservatory Theater production of Maxim Gorky's Philistines, set to run at the Zeum Theater February 12-28, with direction by Richard E. T. White.

Andrew Upton's update of Gorky's classic focuses on a turn-of-the-century Russian household where a tyrannical father lords over his restless adult children as a cast of free-spirited guests and servants bring the tension to a fevered pitch.

The cast will also feature Britannie Bond as Polya, Allison Brennan as Stepanida, Robert Ernst as Perchikin and the Old Man, Natalie Hegg as Tanya, Sharon Lockwood as Akulina, Philip Martinson as Teterev, Rondrell McCormick as Nil and the Young Man, Patrick Russell as Pyotr, Liz Sklar as Elena, Mfoniso Udofia as Tsvetaeva and Old Crone, Jack Willis as Vassilly, and Weston Wilson as Shyshkin and The Doctor.

Willis, who will play Vassilly, has appeared on Broadway in Julius Caesar, The Crucible, and The Old Neighborhood. His A.C.T. credits include Rock 'n' Roll and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.

For more information, call 415-749-2228 or visit act-sf.org.