Adam Dugas is an artist, filmmaker and showman.

He has created and mounted many original musical productions for the stage. His holiday-themed shows, produced under the banner Chaos & Candy, include Chicken in the Snow, a haunted country-western jamboree, and Unholy Night, a rock fantasia exploring the dark legends of Yuletide. Adam is currently developing Unholy Night as a filmed entertainment.

With Ann Magnuson, he created the show Dueling Harps, an evening-length cabaret in which the two enacted a song battle, each backed by a harpist. Premiering at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood, it was remounted at REDCAT and the Abrons Arts Center in New York City.

Adam was a co-founder and creative director of The Citizens Band, an all-star collaborative cabaret troupe represented by Deitch Projects gallery. He wrote, directed, produced and composed for five evening-length shows, as well as acting as a featured performer. The Trepanning Opera, a musical exploration of American health care, was mounted both at Deitch’s New York gallery space and at the Raleigh Hotel for Art Basel Miami Beach.

As a singer, Adam performed all over New York, from CBGB’s and Starr Space to Birdland and Joe’s Pub. Adam & Mia, a harp-and-vocals duo formed with harpist Mia Theodoratus, appeared at galleries and cabaret spaces in New York, as well as in Los Angeles, Shanghai and at the Love Ball in Vienna. He had a recurring role in Angela Di Carlo’s multi-episode musical comedy The Mad World of Miss Hathaway as agency head Drone Raper.

In film, Adam has made a narrative feature, documentary shorts, comedy sketches, music videos, fashion films and commercials. He is a director, writer, editor and producer.

DUST, a narrative feature he wrote and directed with the artist Casey Spooner, was co-produced with Michael Stipe. A loose adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, the film stars three dynamic artists - Cody Critcheloe, Jaimie Warren, Peggy Noland - hailing from Kansas City, MO, where it was shot. Made in the spirit of the Warhol/Morrissey films (FLESH, TRASH and HEAT), it contains the final film role of Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn

At the onset of the pandemic, Adam began collaborating with Ann Magnuson on a 14-episode puppet web series called WTF 2020. Adam edited, sound designed and did “movie magic” on footage that Ann shot on her phone of dolls crafted by her grandmother. Chronicling the year as it evolved, the series included a trip to the Dodger Stadium testing site and psychedelic dream sequences with heavy green screen effects.

Adam is also a seasoned producer and media professional experienced in creative development, production and post-production for film, theater, music and publishing. As executive producer of Subvoyant, Adam has overseen more than 300 commercial projects for global brands.

In 2022, Adam became an Associate Company Member of The Actors’ Gang theatre company. As an actor he appeared in Artistic Director Tim Robbins’s remounting of UBU THE KING, Open Workshop, Much Ado About Pooh and A Comedy of Arrs. He is also a Teaching Artist in the company’s Education Department, bringing the tools of theatre into public schools from Compton to Culver City.

Contact

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