Adam Thompson
MFA VIDEO & MEDIA DESIGN, 2019
Since graduating from CMU’s MFA Video and Media Design program in 2019, Adam Thompson has had a varied career as a creative director, creative producer, arts manager, educator, and multimedia designer working across the disciplines of theatre, opera, cinema, television, installation, events, and digital narratives.
Adam’s work as a multimedia performance director and as a video, projection, and media designer has been produced and presented off-Broadway, off off-Broadway, regionally, and on tour with companies and at venues that include New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Atlantic Theatre Company, Theatre for a New Audience, La Mama, Ars Nova, HERE, The Flea, American Theatre Wing, Terminal 5, Beth Morrison Projects, National Sawdust, New York University, Boston Lyric Opera, El Paso Opera, City Theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, and Diversionary Theatre, as well as in collaboration with a wide variety of major corporate entities including Delta, Ford, Salesforce, and Uber. He is an alumni of The Public Theater’s Devised Theatre Working Group and the HERE Artist Residency Program and has collaborated with the multimedia performance collectives Big Art Group and The Builders Association. Adam and his work are the recipients of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, and The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and he was an invited ambassador to and exhibitor at the 2018 Beijing International Design Biennial.
Adam is the Founding Artistic Director of The Deconstructive Theatre Project, a not-for-profit multimedia storytelling and arts education studio which he founded and led from 2006-2016. He is the recipient of the 2023 USITT and Live Design Rising Star Award, recognizing early career excellence, innovation, and artistic achievement in the field of design. In January 2024, he was appointed Resident Projection Designer at Palm Beach Dramaworks in Palm Beach, FL.