Adam currently teaches International Baccalaureate English Language and Literature and MYP English in Erlangen, Germany. His spare time is spent as a political news junkie, raising his two sons, running the school's Bluegreen Club, and composing, recording, and rarely (these days) performing his original songs. And writing ​about himself in the third person.

SUMMARY

After a childhood chiefly in Evanston and Charlottesville, then college, he returned to Chicago to begin a career in film production and editing while playing in coffeehouses and attending for several years the New Tuners Musical Theatre Workshop, primarily as a lyricist; his work was selected for two showcases. He also worked extensively as a freelance and contract editor/writer, often of textbooks, and eventually took on the role of three-time editor-in-chief of an annual Earth Day guide with a distribution reaching 300,000. When he had time, he took on other work, such as, for a time, a puppeteer with the Hystopolis Puppet Theatre. Eventually he found his way into the then-cutting-edge world of children's software (starting with videodiscs!) in Chicago and then Seattle as an educational CD-ROM producer for Midisoft and Edmark.

After various triumphs and travails, he worked as a technical editor for Microsoft Interface magazine  before being accepted to the prestigious Musical Theatre Writing graduate program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. After earning his MFA in Writing for the Musical Theatre there, he joined the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop as a lyricist. He had several readings of short musical projects, but practical considerations intervened in this artistic life, as they often do.

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TEACHING

He soon found himself on a new path, working as a supply teacher (drama) and as a teaching artist in the South Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan presenting classes in poetry, playwriting, and other subjects. Meanwhile, he met his soon-to-be wife, whom he subsequently joined in teaching the MYP and IB at an international school in Berlin, then in southern Wales at the highly respected UWC Atlantic College, housed in famed St. Donat's Castle on the Bristol Channel. At this school he was also heavily involved in pastoral care and additionally founded two very active environmental clubs. The couple subsequently took their teaching back to Germany, where he has continued recording his music and meantime is becoming increasingly involved in social and environmental causes.

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A NOTE ON ENVIRONMENTALISM

Adam became heavily involved in the Earth Day organization in Chicago in the 1990s, serving as volunteer and then member of the Executive Committee for over five years all told, and as editor-in-chief of their annual environmental guide, Resources, for three of those years. ​The free magazine reached a distribution of 300,000 as an insert in the Chicago Tribune. Much more recently, he founded and advised two extremely active green clubs at UWC Atlantic College, the Environmental Action Team (EAT) and Environmental Campaigns Team (ECT). These groups spearheaded a series of activities at the school, from a massive clothing swap to various waste reduction and issue awareness campaigns. At his current school he has founded the Bluegreen Environmental Action Club, following the successful model of the EAT and ECT.. He also volunteers for Kiva.org as an editor.