Adam Guenzel

Adam Guenzel is played by Mike Doyle and is a prisoner on the HBO drama Oz. Adam is very dislikable as he is a spoiled, arrogant, homophobic and alcoholic young suburban White male in prison for rape. His friend Franklin Winthrop assisted him and they both got sent to Oz for 28 years. Inside he is targeted for rape by the Aryan Brotherhood and is defended until he turns on his protector Tobias Beecher. Adam is then raped and forced to commit suicide by Vernon Schillinger.

Season 5
Guenzel and Winthrop arrive in Oz for raping a girl while intoxicated. Since Adam is a family friend of Tobias Beecher, he is sent to Em City as Unit Manager Tim McManus feels that Tobias can keep him on the right track. Franklin however is sent to Unit B and raped by the Aryans after he is saved from an overweight Black inmate named Clarence Seroy. Adam is scared of prison for he comes from a wealthy White neighborhood where he has been spoiled to the point of never making his own bed and Beecher assures him that prison is something he was in no way prepared for. Beecher guides him though and he is for the most part OK.

In the cafeteria, James Robson parades Franklin Winthrop around as the Aryan's prag and he assures Tobias Beecher that Adam is next on their rape list. Desperate to protect Adam, Tobias asks Kareem Said the leader of the Muslims to do so. Kareem refuses because the Muslims and Aryans have been warned to stay away from each other and Said despises Adam for being violent towards women. Adam then goes to protective custody temporarily as Tobias Beecher recruits the Italians to protect Adam. Because Chucky Pancamo hates the Aryans for hospitalizing him and raping fellow Italian Peter Schibetta while calling them racial slurs in the process, he gladly has the Italians protect Adam. In the Gym, James Robson leads the Aryans in a rape attempt on Guenzel who is playing basketball with Tobias. Frank Urbano and the Italians step in and attack Robson and the rest of the Aryans in defense of Adam. The S.O.R.T. team breaks it up and the prison is put into lockdown.

Vernon Schillinger, head of the Aryans is angered and has Franklin Winthrop tell Adam about how Tobias has a homosexual relationship with Chris Keller. Because Adam is extremely homophobic, he starts to hate Beecher berating him continuously. Schillinger then offers a deal to Beecher that involves giving Adam to the Aryans unprotected. Beecher refuses at first but then Adam is continuously berating him and becoming a discipline problem to Tim McManus so he accepts. Tobias convinces McManus to transfer him to Unit B where he is immediately raped. Beecher however has remorse seeing Adam in the gym shortly after the rape. Adam is now the Aryan's second prag so Beecher has Sister Pete try to talk to Adam. Worried about being charged for rape, Schillinger has Adam go see her not dressed in drag and tells him that if he talks, he will die. Adam says nothing but Sister Pete realizes that he has been sexually abused by someone in Oz. Suspicious that he will be caught, Vern has Adam commit suicide by being caught in the electric fence surrounding the prison. Tobias then realizes he must speak against Schillinger, and as a result Vern is sent to solitary for an undetermined length of time.