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Vikas Adam
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Vikas Adam is an award winning actor, voiceover artist, director and producer.
Adam has been in numerous commercials, industrials, independent films and shows. Favorite past classical theater roles include Alceste in The Misanthrope, Orlando in As You Like It, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and Ariel in The Tempest. Past directing credits include Lysistrata, The Misanthrope, L-Play and No Exit, in addition to numerous original pieces created by ensemble casts.
He is one of the audiobook industry’s most sought after artists and he’s recorded over 500 audiobooks for prominent authors including Harlan Coben, and Salman Rushdie. Some of his most recognized titles include Life of Pi, A Fine Balance, and War of the Worlds. He regularly records for Apple News and The New York Times Audio. Vikas has won the Audie Award (and is a 16 time nominee), a Voice Arts Award award, 25+ Earphones awards, is on several “Best of the Year” lists and is an inaugural inductee into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame. Vikas is a founding faculty member for narrator.life, sits on the Sag Aftra Audiobook Steering Committee, and is a founding board member for the Professional Audiobook Narrators Association.
As an educator, he has taught acting, voice and movement-based studies to all levels, from elementary school to graduate students. As a teacher, Adam constantly updates his curriculum and employs improvisation, movement, ensemble and character-building exercises with an emphasis on “thinking outside the box” while building discipline and self-confidence. He was the program director for Junior Players, Dallas’ oldest non-profit youth arts organization. During his tenure there, he co-produced PUP Fest (a young playwright’s festival) with Kitchen Dog Theater, in addition to the third show in the Shakespeare Dallas Summer Season that included a critically acclaimed Bollywood version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which he also conceived, sound designed and dramaturged.
His love of working with pre-college students has continued as Co-Creative Director of the UCLA Acting and Performance Summer Institute which he and fellow faculty member Perry Daniel redeveloped in 2013 and continue to teach for each summer.
Adam has also used his theater skills in numerous social outreach programs dealing with sexual assault awareness issues; was one of the founding members of the Dallas County Sexual Assault Coalition working alongside social workers, law enforcement, and hospitals to better services to victims of sexual violence; and has presented workshops for social workers at the state and national level.
Adam has a B.F.A. in theater from Syracuse University and an M.F.A. in acting from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
