Warren Adams

Writer, Director, and Choreographer in New York, NY

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Warren Adams is a South African born Writer, Director and Choreographer living in New York City.

This past Spring he will Directed the World Premiere of the new Off Broadway Play SuperHero by Ian Eaton.

This past Summer his new Production Company, the Smada Media Group produced its first Feature Film, a political Thriller entitled 88, which had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

He is the:

- Choreographer of the Bebe Winans Broadway bound musical BORN FOR THIS.

- Writer/Director of RACE AGAINST TIME, a new musical in collaboration with Composer/Lyricist Michael Ogborn which goes into development Fall 2022.

- Writer/Director of the new hip hop musical THE MEASURE OF A MAN in collaboration with Composer/Lyricist Ronve O'Daniel

Past Projects include: MOTOWN THE MUSICAL (Broadway, US Tours, West End) Directed the film AFRICA STRAIGHT UP, and choreographed the Off-Broadway plays ALL THE NATALIE PORTMANS, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, OROONOKO AND RUINED.

Other notable credits include the opera MAGDALENA in Paris at the Theatre Du Chatelet, Disney’s TOY STORY THE MUSICAL and Nora Ephron’s last film JULIE AND JULIA.

In 2019 he was appointed to the Tony Nominating Committee. Other notable awards include the Tony Award for HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Co-Producer). He won the NAACP and the Fred Astaire Award's for his choreographic work on Motown. He was selected as the first MANDELA SAINSBURY SCHOLAR (South Africa to London) and the first RUDOLF NUREYEV AWARD winner in Europe.

His former Production Company WalkRunFly co-produced HEDWIG and OF MICE AND MEN on Broadway.

He is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Black Theatre Coalition.

Adams has served as an Adjunct Professor at both Princeton University and NYU in the drama departments.

He co-founded VisaPaq with Sharona D'Ornella's, a portfolio company that has successfully obtained over 300 working visas for international immigrant artists wanting to work in the USA.

Adams is represented by Jamie Kaye-Phillips at (UTA) United Talent Agency

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