Adam Mathias                                                     musical theatre playwright
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                    WINNER of the 2011 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical

                    for See Rock City & Other Destinations
                    also nominated for
                    OUTSTANDING LYRICS, OUTSTANDING MUSIC, OUTSTANDING LIGHTING, OUTSTANDING DIRECTION and OUTSTANDING MUSICAL

                    Adam Mathias, musical theatre writer

                    Adam Mathias
                    photo by Tony Gale
                    Adam Mathias is an award winning musical theatre writer.

                    His musical See Rock CIty & Other Destinations, music by Brad Alexander, has been awarded the 2007 Jerry Bock Award and 2008 Richard Rodgers Award premiered Off-Broadway July 2010 and received workshop productions from Barrington Stage Company and New York City's Transport Group.  The show has been featured in the 2008 National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival, Merkin Hall's Bound for Broadway Series, and BMI's Musical Mondays and will soon be available for licensing from Samuel French, Inc.

                    Adam conceived and cowrote The Passion of George W. Bush with composer Alden Terry and co-librettist John Herin, which premiered at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival and went on to play Joe's Pub on 2004 election eve.

                    As a playwright, Adam has written several short plays, including "A Long Conversation" and "Desdemona Lives", and recently created Hamlet: What Dreams May Come - a new adaptation of Shakespeare's classic for four actors in ninety minutes.
                    Adam is a graduate of The Theatre School, DePaul University and Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.  He is a proud member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (Jerry Herrington Award winner) and the Dramatist Guild.

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