BADA Studio - Acting the Song with Adam Kantor

Broadway’s Adam Kantor (MIO ‘06) leads a masterclass focused on acting through song! Adam will work one-on-one with participants in a group setting, focusing on excavating the lyric in order to specify the circumstances, ground the storytelling, and deepen the connection through music.

Singers should come in with a 32-bar (or roughly 1-minute) cut of a song. They should ideally know the entire tune in case Adam thinks another cut would be more beneficial.

There will also be space for observers who will not stand and sing but will be able to observe Adam working with active participants.

Adam Kantor (MIO '06) won an Emmy and a Grammy for his performance in the Tony-winning production of THE BAND’S VISIT on Broadway, as well as an Outer Critics Circle honor for his performance in DARLING GRENADINE at the Roundabout. He was nominated for an LA Drama Critics Circle Award for THE INHERITANCE at The Geffen Playhouse. Previously, on Broadway, Adam starred in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, NEXT TO NORMAL, and RENT (final cast, filmed live for Sony Pictures). Off-Broadway, he starred in THE LAST FIVE YEARS at Second Stage and AVENUE Q at New World Stages. Regional highlights include Jonathan Larson’s TICK, TICK, BOOM at Actor’s Playhouse in Miami, Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow’s NOIR at the Alley in Houston, as well as Barry Levinson and Sheryl Crow’s DINER at the Signature outside DC. On TV he guest starred in High Potential on ABC as “Spencer”, Billions on Showtime as “Pununzio”, and The Good Wife on CBS as “Ezra”. He starred in the feature film Either Side Of Midnight, directed by Roger Spottiswoode. Adam is a graduate of Northwestern University and the British American Drama Academy.  He is a coach for the finalists of The National High School Music Theatre Awards (“The Jimmy Awards”) since 2014, and leads masterclasses at theatre programs across the globe.  He was a co-creator of the digital special “SATURDAY NIGHT SEDER” (which raised over $4M for the CDC Foundation), produced by his interactive experiential culinary-theatre company StoryCourse. Adam has headlined concerts at Carnegie Hall as well Princeton Symphony Orchestra, among others.  @AdamJKantor on social. 

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