Writer/editor, communicator, teacher, lyricist, songwriter
Work and Creative Background
Adam writes songs under his own name and as A Crooked Mile. You can catch me now on Spotify and just about all other streaming services.
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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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. Plus anything more recent.
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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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Sugoi Music Studio, Manila, Philippines
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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.
Yes, it's an old picture.
Yes, I am much older now.
No, I will not apologize.