Adam is a freelance multi award-winning stage director known for his inventive Theatre, Music Theatre and Opera productions. He has experience at working across artforms in theatres, concert halls and festivals creating works for adults, families and children.

He was the Associate and Resident Director for Black Swan State Theatre Company and has directed more than twenty productions for the company. Production highlights include; Carol, Oil, Every Brilliant Thing, Next to Normal, Clinton:The Musical, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, and When the Rain Stops Falling.

He was the Artistic Director of Black Swan's HotBed Ensemble (youth ensemble) where he programmed the most vital international repertoire and commissioned new works. Production highlights include: Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee, The Shape of Things, pool (no water) and the world premieres of Portraits of Modern Evil by Robert Reid and The Dark Room by Angela Betzien.

He has directed for The Last Great Hunt including 2024’s choreographic work The Hypotheticals and award winning The Great Ridolphi. Recently he directed the family work The Little Prince for Freeze Frame Opera and WA Young Voices, The Snow for Barking Gecko Theatre and The Wedding Singer and Wise Children with the graduating acting students WAAPA. He has directed work for young people in Shanghai and built entertainment product for clients internationally.

Independent work includes: Dead Man Walking (at Fremantle Prison) and La Fanciulla del West (Freeze Frame Opera) and Those Who Fall In Love Like Anchors Dropped Upon the Ocean Floor (Griffin Independent/The Blue Room). Commercial work includes: Fame -The Musical (Crown Theatre) and premiere productions of Mimma: A Musical of War and Friendship and Dragon Lady (Adelaide Cabaret Festival commission).

He was the Co-Creative Director of The Perth Playwriting Festival and Artistic Director of The Performing Arts Perspectives and regularly directs for The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He has worked with The National Institute Dramatic Arts (NIDA), West Australian Opera, Perth International Arts Festival, Audioplay, WA Youth Theatre Co, Victoria College of the Arts, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Playwriting Australia, Sydney and Melbourne Theatre Companies, Barking Gecko Arts, Curtin University (Hayman Theatre), The Australian Theatre for Young People and is a member of the Lincoln Centre Theater Directors Lab (New York).

His directing appointments in 2026 include the world premieres of Day (After Day) in the Life of the Useless for Black Swan State Theatre Company, UnEarthly at Curtin University and Walk of the Whales for Barking Gecko Arts.

He is a 40 Under 40 Award winner and has received Equity Guild Awards, Blue Room Theatre Awards, Performing Arts WA Awards and the Martin Sims and The West Australian Arts Editor Award.