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 earned their MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing from the California Institute of Integral Studies and now serves as the Artistic Director of the burgeoning non-profit arts organization For Elenvia: Publications and Productions with which Addam formally intertwines their arts with the urgent need for change. For Elenvia is dedicated to using the arts, with a focus on theatre and literature, to generate stories that can help people imagine a better world and consider how we might make it real.