Adam Fleming is a multi-hyphenate creative who’s work attempts to bridge the gap from his inner world to the world we all share.
Adam was the inaugural choreographer for Dance Lab New York’s Connect mentorship program in 2017 and in 2018 he formed Two Way Radio, a theatrical collaborative, with director Christopher Murrah. Collaborating on Toe Pick, a fully transcribed play with music produced at Dixon Place in Manhattan’s Lower East Side and a never-before-seen West Side Story which housed the full production with a forty-piece orchestra on the same stage.
His work can be seen in the Netflix produced film Dick Johnson is Dead. An audience favorite, it was awarded Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program at the 2021 Primetime Emmy Awards, Best Documentary, Best Director and Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary at the 2020 Critic’s Choice Awards and the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
As an educator, Adam has taught at his alma mater, Pebblebrook High School/Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts (Mableton, GA), the Institute for American Musical Theatre (New York, NY), the Emma Willard School (Troy, NY), Ghostlight Theater Camp (Oakland, ME) and Yale School of Music (New Haven, CT).
Notable performing credits on stage include Hairspray (Neil Simon Theatre - Sketch, original Broadway cast), Wicked (Oriental Theatre [Chicago, IL], Gershwin Theatre [NY, NY] & the National Touring Company - Boq), bare: a pop opera (Off-Broadway premier - Lucas) and on film in dare (Ben, director Adam Salky) and its sequel, The Dare Project. The Dare Project premiered at San Francisco’s Frameline 42 Festival in 2018 and played festivals including Outfest, Provincetown IFF, Philadelphia IFF, among others. Awards include Atlanta’s Out on Film Audience Award for Best Men's Shorts, the North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival's Jury Award for Best Men's Short and California Men's Group Short Film Festival 2018 Audience Award for Best Drama