About Addam

Addam Ledamyen (they/them) is a multidisciplinary storyteller with specialties in acting, playwriting, novel writing, and narrative improvisation. They began studying theatre and storytelling from before the age of remembering through summer theatre camps and less-official home classes with their father Kenn Adams, the author of How To Improvise A Full-Length Play: The Art of Spontaneous Theater. Later, they studied theatre more purposefully at Oakland School for the Arts (2014-2018) where they also began practicing their long-held interest in writing stories of their own. Addam transitioned from high school to college during the first Trump administration and was thus quite consumed with an interest in world betterment. At the time, this actualized by beginning school as a Political Science major at American University. Ultimately, however, they graduated with a Musical Theatre degree from there as well.

 

Addam is close to completing their MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing from the California Institute of Integral Studies, serving as a teaching artist at the Walnut Creek Center for Community Arts, and performing on stage with such companies as Synergy Theater, Center Rep, and Ray of Light Theatre. In 2024, they founded the burgeoning non-profit arts organization For Elenvia: Publications and Productions, of which they now serve as the Artistic Director, in order to formally intertwine their arts with the urgent need to change the world. For Elenvia is dedicated to using the arts, with a focus on theatre and literature, to unite people under a common philosophy of limitless respect, empathy, and curiosity. The organization, and the community it seeks to build, believes in the possibility of a better world and works towards its creation through artistic education and active community organizing.