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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1992
1993
1994
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:
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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
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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.
I'm much more like I am now than I used to be.