Writer/editor, communicator, teacher, lyricist, songwriter
Work and Creative Background
Adam is communications lead for the Charity Elections initiative, a program to foster empathy, compassion and a culture of effective giving in secondary schools around the world. He also works as a marketing and outreach copywriter/editor.
Previously, he taught International Baccalaureate English Language and Literature (DP/MYP) and IGCSE English.
His spare time is spent as a political news junkie, raising his two sons, volunteering, and composing, recording, and rarely (these days) performing his original songs. And writing about himself in the third person.
While his life story is hardly worthy of its own page on the Internets, there are a few reasons to have a few highlights on hand, so here it is.
MEDIA, ARTS, EDUCATION
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Youth chiefly in area north of Chicago, IL and in Charlottesville, VA
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Coffeehouse performer; attended New Tuners Musical Theatre Workshop, primarily as a lyricist
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Work selected for two showcases
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Editor/writer, chiefly freelance, for broad range of clients, often working on textbooks and courses, but also everythig from online news to grants and promotional brochures
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Samples of these and many other items mentioned here are at adamedit.com.
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Three-time executive editor of Resources, a free, extensive annual Earth Day guide reaching a distribution to 300,000 readers across Chicagoland as insert in the Chicago Tribune
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Puppeteer with the Hystopolis Children's Puppet Theatre
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Assistant Multimedia Producer, ScottForesman and Encyclopedia Britannica (Chicago)
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Educational CD-ROM Producer, Midisoft and Edmark (Seattle)
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Technical editor, Microsoft Interface magazine
GRADUATE SCHOOL and NYC ADVENTURE
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Accepted to the prestigious Musical Theatre Writing graduate program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
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MFA, Writing for the Musical Theatre
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Several workshops and readings of short musicals in New York City
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Lyricist, BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop
TEACHING: Media, arts and education come together
Teaching artist in S. Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan public schools (also supply teacher)
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Drama, playwriting, poetry, conflict resolution
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Teacher of English Language and Literature in Germany and southern Wales
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Heavily involved in pastoral care, including as assistant houseparent at UWC Atlantic College
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Founder/advisor of three successful environmental clubs
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Back to COMMUNICATIONS
Bringing it all together as message-maker and storyteller for various products and initiatives.
SERVICE
Still involved in environmentalism and social justice
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Volunteer listings editor for Kiva.org and on communications team at High Impact Professionals
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Volunteer editor for Giving What We Can
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Developing Greenspyre.org, an online hub for green clubs
Communication, Education, Collaboration, Coordination, Creativity

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A NOTE ON GUITARS
Adam plays and writes with a Taylor 3/4, a lovely Seagull dreadnought, and a Model K Froggy Bottom hand-crafted jumbo (mahogany and Englemann spruce). Lately he has been experimenting with Garageband using an iRig 37 Pro midi controller; the results can be heard in recent demos including The Falls, Just What It Means, Dark Bird, The Road to Catatonia, World's Gone By and Take My Heart.
Most songs engineered at one of these fine studios:
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Shabbey Road Studios, Caerphilly, Wales
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MS Music Studio, Erlangen, Germany
And a bit by:
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Early Recording, Evanston, IL
With some help from:
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Zwo18 Tonstudio, Erlangen, Germany
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NOCtone Tonstudio, Pinzberg, Germany
Member of ASCAP; when in the U.S., member of the The Dramatists Guild and the National Association for Media Literacy Education.
Special disclaimer
This site is all about me. Me, me, me.
This is a by-product of a site intended to serve mainly as a portfolio.
For a (somewhat) less self-centered site, watch for the eventual rebirth of silly sister-site www.haywire.net.


I'm much more like I am now than I used to be.
