As a singer, Adam has appeared at Joe's Pub, Birdland, Spiegeltent, Webster Hall, P.S.1, Bowery Ballroom, Cutting Room, Rose Live Music, CBGB's, Fez, and the Box, where he also worked as a musical consultant and assembled the house band. Outside of New York, Adam has appeared in Los Angeles at REDCAT, M Bar, Steve Allen Theater, Silverlake Lounge, and Luna Park; in Paris, France at Le Pulp and in Shanghai, China at the Glamour Bar. As Adam & Mia Adam performs regularly with harpist Mia Theodoratus. Their EP of duets is available on iTunes and Amazon.

A regular guest in Earl Dax's cabaret Weimar New York, Adam also wrote the titular theme song for emcee Justin Bond. Other compositions include the theme for the independent telenovela Rosa Negra for director Viva Ruiz and various material for his own original shows. Adam has also filmed roles in LULU by director Aida Ruilova and Shadows Choose Their Horrors by Jennifer Reeves.

In 2004, Adam co-founded The Citizens Band, a collaborative theatrical cabaret ensemble, and was a producer, writer, director, composer and principal performer in all shows through May, 2006. Full-length shows included Je T’Aime, Scumbag; No New Thing Under the Sun; and The Trepanning Opera. Trepanning was remounted at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2005 by Deitch Projects, which represented the project.

The Mike Show, Adam's trash-rock cabaret comedy act, played venues of varying repute on the West Coast. In 2000, "Mike" was co-host of the Internet cooking and dance music show Dinner with a DJ, broadcast live from a heavily wired bungalow in the Hollywood Hills rumored to be Charlie Chaplin's old gun shack. Adam's performance as Armand in Charles Ludlam’s Camille at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco earned rave reviews.

Raised outside of Boston, Adam holds a B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.