Adam Cates

Adam Cates (MFA, Interdisciplinary Arts) experienced the incredible journey of what it means to be a full-time working artist firsthand. He has a background as a director, choreographer, playwright, creative director, educator, producer, public speaker, and performer with credits including Tony Award-winning Broadway musicals, television, opera, national tours, concerts, film, regional and commercial theater, and more. Across his two decades based in New York City, Adam taught for multiple universities and arts institutions as an adjunct professor, guest artist-in-residence, and guest lecturer. Adam is presently the Director of Community Engagement for the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts in Reno, NV and he continues to freelance across the US and abroad as an educator and theatre director.