Adam Wernick has been a composer for the theater since 1986. He also composes concert works, which include Hymns, Sighs and Shadows…Fragments of Shakespeare (for string quartet and piano) which received its premiere in February 2007, by the 21st Century Concert; Darkness and Memory (for clarinet, cello and piano), which premiered in Minneapolis, MN in June 2006; Mourning Sea (for solo oboe and ensemble) which had its premiere in April, 2005, by Orchestra 2001 and oboe soloist Richard Woodhams; Always (for soprano and ensemble), premiered by Network for New Music in January 2001; The Path of Night and Smoke (for soprano and ensemble), premiered by Orchestra 2001 in 1997; Modern Idols (for tape and dancers), performed at the Pennsylvania Ballet’s “Shut up and Dance” concert in 1997.
Adam has also written two original musicals with lyricist and playwright Kate Hawley: The Princess and Pea (2004) and Sleeping Beauty (2006). Both productions were commissioned and performed by Shakespeare Santa Cruz in California.
After having lived and worked in Philadelphia for many years, Adam now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. During his years in Philadelphia, he worked with most of the major theater companies in the city, including the Wilma Theater, The Walnut Street Theatre, The Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival and Mum Puppettheatre. In 1997, he was awarded the prestigious F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Theater Artist at Philadelphia’s Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theater. He has received Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Original Music for Mum Puppettheatre’s productions of Séance and From the Ashes. In addition, his scores for the Wilma Theatre’s productions of Outrage, The Invention of Love, Quartet, and Arcadia, and Mum Puppettheatre’s production of The Adventures of A Boy and His Dog on the High Seas received Barrymore Award nominations.
Adam works extensively with The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, where he has collaborated with directors Michael Kahn, Garland Wright, Joe Dowling, Bill Alexander, Gale Edwards, Rachel Kavanaugh and Daniel Fish. His scores for that theatre’s productions of Love’s Labor’s Lost (2006), Othello (2005), Hamlet (2001), Richard II (1993), Hamlet (1994) received Helen Hayes Award nominations. He has also worked with Arizona Theatre Company, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Signature Theatre (DC), Berkshire Theatre Festival, PlayMakers Repertory Company and New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, among others.
Adam’s work has been supported by grants from the McKnight Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Independence Foundation, the Presser Foundation, the Henson Foundation and ASCAP. He received a B.A. in Music from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985.
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