Adam Fristoe

Adam Fristoe

Adam is Co-Artistic Director of Out Of Hand Theater, which has been featured in Variety, American Theatre Magazine, Back Stage, Theater Journal and TheaterForum as well as on Studio 360: Public Radio International.  Out of Hand has received generous grants from Theatre Communications Group, NASA/National Science Foundation, MAAAF and many others.

With Out Of Hand, Adam has developed 30 Below, HELP!, Meds (Atlanta Journal-Constitution Top 10 Plays of 2007, Sunday Paper Best Ensemble, Best Director, Best Design 2007), Lab Coats, The VD Show, CARTON with Steve Yockey, Stadium 360, and Hominid, directed and acted in 30 Below, and Nobody Here But Us Chickens, directed Stadium 360, Cartoon, Live Nude Bouffons, The VD Show, The Break Up and Group Intelligence (European and US Tours) and acted in Big Love (Creative Loafing Top 10 Plays of 2003), Alcestis, Miss Julie, and Hominid (including european tour.)

Adam has been named “Best Director” by the Sunday Paper and recieved a Suzi Award for Best Musical Ensemble for Vive la Fontaine an original show he developed with Theatre du Reve.

Adam is a member of Actor’s Equity Association and has performed at the Shakespeare Theatre Company/ACA (Revenger’s Tragedy and Winter’s Tale,) Theatre du Reve, Atlanta’s French Language Theater (Antigone, La Marriage Force, Dissident, Il Vas Sans Dire, Vive La Fontaine!, Les Precieuses Ridicules), Actor’s Express (The Long Christmas Ride Home, Spain, Last Sunday in June) ART Station (Glass Menagerie), 7 Stages (Faust, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell that was once her heart), Horizon Theatre (End,Days, Algae Eaters), Theatre Gael (Our Country’s Good), and toured regionally with the Georgia Shakespeare Festival (Macbeth) and the Academy Theatre. Adam worked as an actor and puppeteer in The Spooky Horror Puppet Show at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta. Adam holds a B.F.A from SMU Meadow School of the Arts and an M.F.A. from George Washington University, and received specialized training at the Dell ‘Arte International School of Physical Theater as well as Celebration Barn, and is a recognized Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. He has worked on the Literary Management teams at Dallas Theater Center, Kitchen Dog, New Theater, and Horizon Theater Company. Adam has developed and implemented workshops and training programs for at-risk youth for K.I.T.E., Ice House Dallas, Plano Children’s Theater, and has toured in the UK, where he created 2 original, interactive Theatre-in-Education productions for under-serviced youth.

On Camera, Adam appears in the recurring role, Adrian Harris on MTV’s Teen Wolf.  He also starts in the upcoming feature films, The Proxy and Congratulations! as well as Halloween 2, Road Trip, House of Payne and others.

Adam is currently a Visiting Professor at Emory University and Kennesaw State University, teaching Physical Theater styles, Acting and Creating new work. He has a particular interest in developing interdisciplinary courses that combine Science and Art.

Contact me at adam@outofhandtheater.com