About Adam
Originally from New York City, Adam Alexander is a versatile artist. He has been working in the performing arts for over twenty-five years as a singer, actor, fight director, and educator.
After his training at Boston University and The Manhattan School of Music, Adam balanced his passion of performing and teaching at major venues and institutions continually throughout his early career. He took part in theatrical, operatic, and musical theatre productions with Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic, the Signature Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, New York City Center, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation. These include productions of Carousel, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, and West Side Story Suites, as well as over 250 concerts with the New York Philharmonic under the batons of maestros such as Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, and Alan Gilbert. He has appeared in numerous productions in New York and regional theaters across the United States. Favorite roles include Mercutio (Roméo et Juliette – Gounod), Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Britten), Njegus (The Merry Widow – Léhar), and The Baker (Into the Woods- Sonheim). Adam was a member of the Trinity Wall Street Choir for six years, with whom he performed the complete Bach cantatas, the full choral works of Poulenc and Stravinsky, and received a Grammy nomination for “Best Choral Performance” for Handel’s Israel in Egypt. You can also hear Adam on the recordings of Rebecca (New World Records) and Allegro (Rodgers and Hammerstein, Sony).
In France, Adam has performed at Les Clefs du Chant (Mr. Baker, Into the Woods), Various Opera Choruses with Accentus at Opéra Comique and Opéra de Rouen (Roméo et Juliette, Fantasio, Le Postillon du Lonjumeau, Tosca, Tannhäuser, La Traviata, Voyage á La Lune), with renowned directors such as Eric Ruf, Olivier Fredj, Olivier Bénézach, and Thomas Jolly., He sung multiple small roles in the recent Nánási production of Der Rosenkavalier at the Théâtre de Champs Elysées. He appeared in La Forêt de l’Enchantement as Waterlilo at Disneyland Paris, performed the role of Puck with Cygnet Theatre in their production of A Midsummer nights Dream as well as Dogberry in his own adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing with Atlantic Theatre Arts, of which he is co-founder and Artistic Director. He works regularly as a voice over artist and has worked commercially for Sodexo and Garnier.
Alongside a fulfilling performing career, Adam has been a passionate arts educator and coach since he graduated high school, in a continual belief that his need to teach comes from the need to learn and keep feeding the arts through communication and knowledge.Before leaving New York, Adam was teaching at The Actor’s Studio Drama School, where he created a complete curriculum in movement and stage combat. He choreographed movement sequences for many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, as well as regional theatre productions across the United States. His credits include six seasons with the New York City Opera, and work with The Pearl Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theater, The American Globe Theater, and Des Moines Metro Opera. He also taught for over 10 years at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and the Manhattan School of Music. In France, He is an advocate for actor safety when staging violence and intimacy, In France, Adam has taught Acting, Movement, Voice and Speech, Stage Combat and directed multiple shows at Cours Florent with their Acting in English department from 2017-2024. He served as the Pedagogical Director from 2019-2023, during which time, he was responsible for creating the initial curriculum for their Stage and Screen department. He created choreography for Roméo et Juliette at Opéra Comique as well as the Folies Bergères production of Le Compte de Monte Cristo. He has a coaching studio in which he teaches singing, acting, vocal production, as well as character preparation, movement, audition and industry prep. With a wide frame of reference, he seeks to help artists grow through mastering their body, voice, intellect, and emotional curiosity to connect their impulse and imagination.
Before moving to France, Adam was an active member of several professional organizations in the field of theatre and performing arts, including the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), and the Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME).
As a director, Adam’s work has been seen with American Musical Theatre Live! with whom he directed Crossroads and Say Magnifique- a show which he conceived celebrating French and American culture in musical theatre. A Shakespeare lover, he adapted and directed Much Ado About Nothing with Cygnet Theatre Paris and @RealRiiichardG with Argo Theatre. A strong advocate for women’s voices, he began the Soirée Sororite Festival in the month of March, 2025 with Atlantic Theatre Arts- curating, programming and directing works celebrating women in the arts. In February 2026 he co-directing and playing the title role in Man of La Mancha at the American Church. January of 2026 marks the beginning of ATA’s Broadway Studio, a weekly actor/singer/dancer playground to help nurture young talent.