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Adam Kiss is an actor, singer, writer, and director from Bergen County New Jersey, a close suburb of New York City. His short film "Now I Am Alone" garnered him the award for Best Actor at the Europe Film Festival U.K. The Film, which he also wrote and directed, also garnered both nominations and official selections from several other international film festivals. An Accomplished Opera singer with a rich trained voice, Adam graduated with Master's and Professional Studies degrees from The Curtis Institute of Music, one of the most selective colleges and the most respected conservatory in the world. Adam also has a bachelor's degree from Manhattan School of Music in NYC. Adam also trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts also in NYC. Adam is an accomplished Shakespearean actor.

In addition to film, Adam has performed extensively in opera, musical theatre, and theatre. He has received the encouragement award and was a district finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Competition (The National Council Auditions). He has performed extensively with Opera Philadelphia, which is one of the leading opera companies in the entire United States. He alternated as Leporello and Commendatore to universal critical acclaim in Opera Philadelphia's 2019 New Production of Don Giovanni. Roles that Adam has performed in professional productions in theatres include Bartolo in The Barber of Seville, Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin, King Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande, Jimmy in Mahagonny: Ein Songspiel, L'Arbre in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, A Mourner in A Quiet Place, Il Maggiordomo in La Rondine, and many others. Adam has also performed with Metropolitan opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia in the title role of Figaro, as well as the role of Don Alfonso in a concert featuring excerpts from Le Nozze di Figaro and Cosi fan Tutte.

Adam has worked with many prominent directors including the Tony-winning director of the 2019 Oklahoma Broadway revival: Daniel Fish, as well as R.B. Schlather, Stephanie Havey, Christopher Mirto, and many others. Conductors Adam has worked with include Met Opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Former New York City Opera Music Director Jayce Ogren, world-famous pianist and conductor Phillippe Entremont, Kent Tritle, Timothy Myers, Christian Capocaccia, Kensho Watanabe, Joseph Mechavich, and many more.

 At the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Adam acted in numerous plays and scenes, including the leading roles of Dalton Chance in The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Teddy in Painted Rain, Wallace Kirkman in Women and Wallace, as well as Mack the Knife "Macheath" in excerpts from Kurt Weill's The Threepenney Opera and Frank Butler in scenes from Annie Get Your Gun. At Manhattan School of Music, he performed the leading role of Lee in excerpts from Sam Shepard's classic play True West. He has also performed excerpts and scenes from several Shakespeare plays, and includes monologues in many of his vocal recitals. Adam even performed Shakespeare monologues in a masterclass at Shakespeare's house in Stratford-upon-Avon. Adam is also an expert in accents and dialects, and some of the accents firmly in his repertoire are British (Almost all types, including Royal and Cockney), French, Italian, Australian, Scottish, and most types of Continental American accents. In addition, aside from English, Mr. Kiss is fluent in Hungarian, and conversational in French, German, and Italian after studying these languages extensively on his own and in preparation for singing in all of these languages. In diction, Adam was taught by the top diction teachers and coaches in the world in all of the aforementioned languages.

Adam's mother is renowned Hungarian-born international concert Pianist and Franz Liszt specialist Christina Kiss. In addition to singing and acting, Adam is a true Renaissance man in that he is an accomplished writer and poet. He was athletically trained in both tennis and fencing.

Studied both acting and opera in college.

One of Adam Kiss&#39; filmmaking role models is David Lean.

Adam Kiss is an avid Shakespearean actor, having even performed in Shakespeare&#39;s home town of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Adam was born in a musical and artistic family to two concert pianists.

Adam Kiss advanced to the district finals of the Metropolitan Opera national council auditions competition, and won the encouragement award.

Adam Kiss made his stage debut at two months old when his mother, world-famous pianist Christina Kiss, took him out on stage at Carnegie Hall after one of her solo piano recitals.

Adam Kiss has a talent for languages. He speaks fluent English an Hungarian, as well as some Italian, French, and German. In addition to these languages, he has also sung and performed in Russian, Latin, and Spanish.

Adam Kiss has received several Best Actor Awards, including from the Europe Film Festival and the Dubai Independent Film Festival.

In addition to being an actor, singer, and director, Adam Kiss is also a writer.

Adam Kiss has had a passion for literature from a young age, and in particular admires the works of writers such as Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Honoré de Balzac.

Adam Kiss attended The Curtis Institute of Music, the most selective college in the world with an acceptance rate lower than 2%.

Adam Kiss has performed the title role of Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro with Metropolitan Opera Music Director and Principal Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in scenes from the opera at Verizon Hall.

Some of the composers that Adam Kiss admires include Franz Liszt, Giuseppe Verdi, Frédéric Chopin, and Cole Porter.

Has performed multiple leading operatic roles with Opera Philadelphia.

One of Adam Kiss&#39; acting mentors is Richard Kline, known for portraying Larry on all 8 seasons of the famous TV show: Three&#39;s Company.

Adam Kiss is an avid screenwriter and has written several feature film screenplays.

Adam Kiss appeared on Season 4, Episode 2 of the Emmy-winning TV Series: Succession.

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