Dean Adams
Assistant Professor, Artistic Director, and Coordinator of Recruitment and Advisement

Dean Adams holds an M.F.A in Directing from Florida State University and an M.A. in Communications and Theatre from the University of Maryland. He has been a teacher for 21 years, and brings an impressive array of professional directing, design, and stage management experience to KSU. He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Centennial Theater Festival in Simsbury, Connecticut, where he's directed productions including Love's Labour's Lost, Scapino!, and Greater Tuna. Academic directorial credits have included productions of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Rollins College) and The Music Man (Florida State University). As director of theatre at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor Connecticut, he directed and designed a touring production of Once Upon a Mattress, the first musical ever to tour the People's Republic of China (chronicled in the PBS documentary Beyond the Wall) in 1987. Professional design credits have included scenery for Bus Stop, and A Midsummer Night's Dream; and scenery/lights for Vanities, Chekhov's The Sneeze, and Beyond the Fringe (Centennial Theater Festival).

Dean is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Actor’s Equity Association, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and the Southeast Theater Conference. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Entertainment.

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