BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
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ADAM DUGAS is a director, producer, actor, and writer based in New York City. Adam most recently completed post-production on the narrative feature film DUST, which was produced, written, photographed and directed by Adam Dugas and Casey Spooner, and edited by Adam with assistant Jessy Abid. Shot on location in Kansas City, the film stars Jaimie Warren, Cody Critcheloe, Peggy Noland, and Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn. Dugas and Spooner also directed a year's worth of short documentary portraits of artists 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. They have also directed short documentary pieces for the New York Times and a short film promo shown at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. For eight years, Adam 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 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. 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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