Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is widely recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
Mr. Beckett is most renowned for his play Waiting for Godot, which launched his career in theatre. He then went on to write numerous successful full-length plays, including Endgame in 1957, Krapp’s Last Tape in 1958, and Happy Days in 1960. Mr. Beckett received his first commission for radio from the BBC in 1956 for All That Fall. This was followed by a further five plays for radio, including Embers, Words and Music and Cascando.
Like no other dramatist before him, Mr. Beckett’s works capture the pathos and ironies of modern life yet still maintain his faith in man’s capacity for compassion and survival, no matter how absurd his environment may have become.
Adam Kern is a Producer, Director, and Actor, currently based in Seattle. As a director, Adam’s work has been seen most recently at The 5th Avenue Theatre’s Gala, where he wrote and directed a mini-immersive, Clueless Intentions. Prior to that he served as the Artistic Virtual Programs Manager for Cleveland Play House, where he led the artistic visionioning of their digital season from concept to execution. He is co-owner of Shadow of the Run LLC, Cleveland’s first Immersive Theatre company. As a producer and director, Adam has led events from 20-2000 people, from 20+ staged readings to full productions, including CPH’s Theatre Thursday series projects Let’s Get Physical! and Onward!, and also productions of Shadow of the Run Chapter 1: WanderLust and The Torso Book Club.
As an actor, Adam was recently seen on CBS show One Dollar, the feature film I See You, with Helen Hunt, and shows on Hulu and Comedy Central, and enjoyed a short gig as a radio trivia host with his show “Friend Date with Adam”, a Spoon Original. In Theatre, Adam made his Seattle debut with Witness Immersive’s Last Days of the Tsars. He has worked with the American Repertory Theatre, the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Coeurage Theatre Ensemble, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Moscow Art Theatre, and at the Old Vic, in London. He holds a BFA Musical Theatre from Kent State and the questionable approximation of a graduate degree from the A.R.T. / MXAT Institute at Harvard University. Proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.
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