Adam Wagner

Birthday: 27 June 1983, Valparaiso, Indiana, USA

Height: 178 cm

Adam Jonathon Wagner, originally from Chesterton, Indiana, is a graduate (2005) of the musical theater department at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. Unable to afford ...Show More

Adam Jonathon Wagner, originally from Chesterton, Indiana, is a graduate (2005) of the musical theater department at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. Unable to afford piano lessons, he is self-taught and began to write songs in 2001. In June 2005, he presented an original revue, Don't Look Down, as part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. The show received the Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best Alternative Production and a Cincinnati Enquirer Acclaim Award."Traci's Song" premiered in NYC at the MAC/ASCAP Songwriters' Showcase and Things to Chase: A Composer's Showcase. Adam attended the Composers Stage Project as part of the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and is regularly mentored by the program's director, Craig Carnelia.Most recently, he introduced himself as a songwriter to the New York community in An Evening of (mostly) True Songs at the Laurie Beechman Theater, featuring the Broadway talents of Andrea Burns, Justin Bohon, Benjamin Magnuson and Katie Klaus.Adam is now making his first attempt to write lyrics in collaboration with his friends, Benjamin Magnuson (book) and Zachary Dietz (music), on a full-scale book musical.As an actor, he can be seen as Phil in the film, Teeth, which premiered at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. He has also done several sketch comedy shows around NYC and has worked at The St. Louis Muny, Ogunquit Playhouse and Seacoast Repertory Theater. In 2003, Adam studied abroad at the Midsummer in Oxford program as part of the British American Drama Academy where he performed for Sir Ben Kingsley, Mark Wing-Davey and more. Hide