BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
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ADAM DUGAS is a singer, actor, writer, producer and director based in New York City. Adam is currently completing post-production work on the feature film DUST. Produced, written, and directed by Adam Dugas and Casey Spooner, Adam also has a featured role and edited the film with assistant Jessy Abid. Starring Jaimie Warren, Cody Critcheloe and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn, the film is expected to release in 2012. Dugas and Spooner also recently completed directing a year of mini-documentary artist portraits for the website ImagineFashion, including subjects like Frances McDormand, Marina Abramovic, James Franco, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Denis O'Hare, Basil Twist, Ryder Ripps and Mick Rock. Their portrait of Chloe Sevigny, which captured her watching comedian Drew Droege's "impersonation" of her, has subsequently screened at film festivals. For eight years, Adam has produced, directed and starred in Chaos & Candy, a non-traditional holiday extravaganza. Other major stage projects include Dueling Harps, an darkly elegant concert with comedy he conceived with cult legend Ann Magnuson, and Vernal Hoodoo. Adam produced and directed the musical show Lady Lady Lady for Deitch Projects. He also produces and directs interstitials, commercials, and music videos. He co-directed the videos "We Are Electric" and "The Best Revenge" for Fischerspooner with Jason Cacioppo of Subvoyant. 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, Fez, and the Box, where he also worked as a musical consultant. 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 performed regularly with harpist Mia Theodoratus. They released two EPs of duets available on iTunes and Amazon. 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. Photo by Tim Hailand. |
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