Email: ajepsen@broadwayartistsalliance.org
Specialties: Acting, On-Camera, Audition Prep, College Audition Prep, Movement for the Actor, Dance
Skype coaching available? Yes

Adam grew up in a small suburb outside of Chicago called Park Ridge, IL. During high school he trained privately at The Piven Theatre School, The Actors Gymnasium, Joel Hall Dance Centre, and at Carnegie Mellon’s pre-college summer program. Adam had an easy transition into anything physical because he was a competitive gymnast in middle school. He went on to study Musical Theatre at Penn State University, which is where he received his BFA. After his sophomore year he took a leave of absence for a year to tour the country as the Scarecrow in the national tour of The Wizard of Oz. He spent his remaining summers at college working at the Ogunquit Playhouse, where he got his Equity card, and at The Muny in St. Louis.

Adam then moved to NYC and booked his first Broadway show after three weeks of living here. He was cast as the swing in the original Broadway cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella. He also had the honor of performing on the Macy’s Day Parade, the cast album, and the Tony Awards with Cinderella. He then joined the Broadway Company of Chicago at the Ambassador Theatre, which he did for two and a half years. While at Chicago he also did Guys and Dolls at Carnegie Hall with an all-star cast. He also had the privilege of performing on The Wendy Williams Show, Sunrise Australia, The Today Show and at Madison Square Garden.

While balancing these full-time theatre jobs Adam did three independent short films called Grotto, by Dave Scala (Palm Springs Intl Film Fest), Mirrors, by Jingyang Cheng, and Pink Moon, (10+ Million Views on YouTube) by Sal Bardo. He then got his first Co-Star on The Mysteries of Laura on NBC.

As a teacher, Adam is currently a guest faculty teacher at Broadway Dance Center in NYC. Adam has taught at dance studios including Front & Center Dance Studio,The NYPAC, & Breaking Ground Dance. He also set a piece, taught master classes and received the endowment fund to arrange and present the spring assembly at The Rye Country Day School in Rye, NY.  Adam has taught classes, intensives, and/or masterclasses for: Broadway Dreams, Broadway Classrooms, Junior Tours, Broadway Artists Alliance, StudentsLive, Broadway Connection, Porter Gymnastics stay-away Camp, The Pennsylvania State University & Dance Mate Workshop in Monterrey, Mexico.

Adam’s Coaching Philosophy

Practice makes perfect and you gotta risk it to get the biscuit!

Rates

$125/hour