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The Company

Adam Fristoe
Maia Knispel
Ariel de Man
Kathleen Donahoe
Brian Crawford
Rebecca Dutton
Matt Huff
/ Park Krausen
Theresa Stowe
Jessica Rhoads
J. Joe Sykes
Justin Welborn
Jeffrey Zwartjes

Adam Fristoe

The Statement

Adam is Co-Artistic Director of Out Of Hand Theater. Out Of Hand Theater has been named Atlanta’s “Best New Company” (AJC 2001), Atlanta’s “Best Theatrical Mad Scientists” (Creative Loafing 2003), and one of “A Dozen Young American Companies You Need to Know” (American Theatre Magazine 2004). Out Of Hand has been featured in Variety, Back Stage, Theater Journal and TheaterForum, and received a New Generations: Future Audiences award in 2007.

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 and The VD Show, and acted in Big Love (Creative Loafing Top 10 Plays of 2003), Alcestis, Miss Julie and Hominid.

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.

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.

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Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
University: Southern Methodist University, B.F.A; Academy for Classical Acting, M.F.A. '08
Other training: Dell 'Arte School of Physical Theatre, Celebration Barn, SAFD, University of Manchester Theater in Prisons, Roberto Traven Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Special Interests: Clown, Spectacle Theatre, New Play Development, Design, Architecture, Keisha, Grappling
Teaching:Emory University, Kennesaw State University,Northsprings Magnet Arts School, Actor's Express, residencies in Colleges and High Schools across the country

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