Bio

Adam Arian is a New York–based director, writer and performer.

As a director, his work has been seen at the New York Musical Theater Festival, on national tour, at the La Jolla Playhouse, the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the New York International Fringe Festival. He directed Clinton at the New York Musical Theater Festival and the national tour of Memphis. His Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead won San Diego’s Patté Award for Outstanding Direction, and his Camino Real was named one of the best productions of the year by San Diego Theatre Scene. He has assisted Christopher Ashley, David Warren and Andrei Belgrader, was a Directing Fellow at Geva Theatre Center, and founded Brooklyn Rep, where he produced new work by writers including Arthur Kopit, Tina Howe and Lee Blessing.

As a performer, Adam has appeared Off-Broadway in The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, on the national tour of The Scarlet Pimpernel, at Trinity Repertory Company and the La Jolla Playhouse, and on television in Law & Order.

He is the writer of Fitter... Happier..., a script set to the music of Radiohead, and a longtime teacher and acting coach. He holds an MFA in Directing from UC San Diego and a BA in Theater and Political Science from Brown University.