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Writer/editor, communicator, teacher, lyricist, songwriter

Work and Creative Background

Adam writes songs under his own name and as A Crooked Mile
 

He has an MFA from the Musical Theatre Writing graduate program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and was for several years a writer in the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He also attended the New Tuners Musical Theatre Workshop in Chicago.

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Currently communications lead for one global charity and donor relations and systems coordinator for another, he's been an International Baccalaureate English Language and Literature (DP/MYP) and IGCSE English teacher in Germany and Wales; a copywriter/editor for PR, outreach, and education; a film editor; puppeteer; educational software producer; technical editor; editor-in-chief; playwright-in-residence; and more. 

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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. His very silly blog, very much in stasis, can be accessed above.

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If you think you have met him, it was probably in Evanston, Chicago, Seattle, Ann Arbor, Charlottesville, New York City, Berlin, Cardiff, Nuremberg, or Manila.

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Writing original 'songs that speak' on guitar

1992

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1993

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1994

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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

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Most songs engineered at one of these fine studios:

And a bit by:

  • Early Recording, Evanston, IL

With some help from:

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Member of ASCAP; when in the U.S., member of the The Dramatists Guild and the National Association for Media Literacy Education. 

 

 

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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.

 

 

Writing original 'songs that speak' on guitar
I played my acoustic rock, folk, novelty and musical theatre songs in coffeehouses in Chicago and Seattle

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

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