MAR 5, 2011 – Best Featured Actor nom!
I was nominated for a BroadwayWorld San Francisco Award for Best Featured Actor in a Local Musical, for my performance as Detective Marcus in MURDER FOR TWO at the Eureka Theatre!
Check out the results here!
FEB 28, 2011 – New Dramatists Nautilus Composer-Librettist Workshop
For about two weeks, four other composers and I have each composed music to the lyrics of five different New Dramatists resident playwrights — all under the mentorship and guidance of Ben Krywosz and musical director Roger Ames, and with five stellar performers. Today we present all 25 songs created in the workshop!
Composers: Adam Overett, John Glover, Kathryn Hathaway, Erin Kamler, Pat O’Donnell
Librettist/Lyricists: Sarah Hammond, Kristine Haruna Lee, James McManus, Betty Shamieh, Francine Volpe
Performers: Deborah Craig, Paolo Montalban, Alexandra de Suze, Sophia Thomas, James Wordsworth
JAN 31, 2011 – My concert at the D-Lounge!
New York Theatre Barn presents NYTB IN THE D-LOUNGE with music of Adam Overett and Peter Saxe!
Monday, Jan 31 – 7:30pm
Daryl Roth Theatre @ Union Square East (Park Ave. South)
101 East 15th Street
$10 cover, 2 drink min, no reservations required
My half of the concert is called “ALL OVERETT” ….
Meet the Double-Threat Trio: three unfortunate performers who can’t master their third skill to save their lives.
Meet a starry-eyed young girl who wants to be a clinically insane Scottish murderess when she grows up.
Meet the grandson from Dirty Dancing (you know, the one with “two hotels”) and find out what he REALLY wants to say to the Jennifer Grey character.
Meet other people too. Oh, you don’t know them? YOU SHOULD.
They’ll be played by the likes of Elena Shaddow (La Cage Aux Folles), Amy Justman (Company), Amanda Leigh Cobb (The Importance of Being Earnest), Michael Lluberes (Dirty Dancing), Aspen Vincent (American Idiot), Jaclyn Huberman (I Love You Because), Kristine Reese (Wicked), Craig Laurie (Jersey Boys), F. Michael Haynie (We The People) and Adam (The Light in the Piazza) himself.
Direction by Dev Janki (Zanna Don’t), musical direction by Andy Einhorn (Sondheim on Sondheim).
Get Overett. ALL OVERETT.
NOV 6, 2010 – MURDER FOR TWO opens in San Francisco!
In this two-person musical, I play a detective, Joe Kinosian plays a dozen-plus suspects, and we both play the piano. Written by Joe Kinosian (music and book) and Kellen Blair (lyrics and book), it is 90 0f the funniest minutes you will ever spend in a theater!
We open at the Eureka Theatre, under the auspices of the 42nd Street Moon company.
Check out some reviews …
“Overett completely inhabits that character and pairs beautifully with Kinosian, never dropping the momentum or the spoofy, farcical tone of the piece.” – The SF Examiner
“A lovable foil … [Adam Overett] is a perfect straight man who is able to get his own share of laughs.” – The Troy Record
Detective Marcus (Adam Overett) and innocent choirboy Yonkers (Joe Kinosian). Photo by Jim McLaughlin.
The notebook is gone! (Joe as Dahlia Whitney, the victim's wife.) Photo by Jim McLaughlin.
OCT 9, 2010 – My improv debut at the Upright Citizens Brigade!
My first improv comedy show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre! The UCB, founded by Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh, teaches long-form improv, an art form pioneered and perfected by Del Close at Second City in Chicago.