In 2012 his production of Six Characters at Iowa State University received the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival’s National Award for Outstanding Production of a Play and Outstanding Director of a Play. The production received Chicago Jeff Award Nominations for Outstanding Production, Director, Ensemble, and won for best new adaptation. He adapted and directed Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for Oracle Productions in Chicago in 2014. In 2016, his touring production of The Glass Menagerie performed at Russia’s Moscow Art Theatre. We worked and lived in Red Lodge, MT as a wildlife biologist before starting his theatre career. He toured as an actor with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks from 2003-2006 and wrote and directed 2020’s Faithful Friends, an adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona for Montana Shakes! in theatre studies and directing from Wayne State University in Detroit. in acting from Chicago’s Roosevelt University and Ph.D. She also writes and performs stories from her life. She holds a BFA from NYU, and and MFA from DePaul University. She has worked as a theater educator and director at Writers Theatre (Chicago), Adventure Stage Chicago, 2nd Story Chicago, North Carolina Theatre, PBS Kids, Students Motivated by the Arts (Ohio), Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and DePaul University. In Chicago she was nominated for a Best Actress Award for her work as a basketball player in Charles Ives Take Me Home. Elsewhere, she has performed in New York, Connecticut, and in Chicago. Stephanie Chavara has worked as an actor-educator for Montana Shakespeare in the School’s Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet, and the Shakes! tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream she has designed curriculum and created learning materials for Julius Caesar, Goodnight Sweet Prince Great King!, The Tempest, and As You Like It: Books in Brooks. In Montana, she has worked as an actor in residence at Lame Deer Schools, taught with the Tate School and the Children’s Shakespeare Society. Of all his experiences, his favorite “role” is that of “Dada” to his daughter. In 2021, Adam and his family took a leap of faith and relocated to Bozeman. Adam is also excited to renew his love of radio by becoming involved with KGLT, having 20 years of on-air hosting experience with WARC-FM (Meadville) and WYEP-FM (Pittsburgh). Additionally, Adam was able to combine his love of education and theatre working with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s Standardized Patient Program. Adam acted or directed for Artist’s Upstairs, Carlow University, Future Ten Festival, Gemini Children’s Theater, Kuntu Repertory Theatre, McKeesport Little Theater, No Name Players, Open Stage, Organic Theater, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, Stage Right/Riverfront Theater, The Summer Company (Carlow/Duquesne), and Throughline Theatre. In 2006, Felix’s staging of Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love” earned Pittsburgh Post Gazette Top 25 Honors, and Adam received acknowledgement as one of the Directors-of-the-Year. Upon returning to Pittsburgh, PA, Adam founded Thank You Felix Productions in 2005, which debuted with an original stage adaptation of Tiffanie DeBartolo’s film “Dream for an Insomniac”. A graduate of Allegheny College as an English and Theater double major, he quickly put both to good use teaching and directing in Salzburg, Austria. Adam (Production Manager) is honored to join MSIP and is excited to support its theatrical and educational programming.
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