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Adam Smith Jr. is an American Actor based in New York since 1997. He is an actor, singer, director and producer. Originally from St. Louis, MO, Adam spent his childhood moving around the US and Canada. Spending time in several different cultures; Adam created several comedic characters and became fluent in dialects and accents.

After theatre training in college he moved to NYC and worked for over 7 years on Wall Street, though he had no training in finance. In 2007 he returned to the stage full-time.

Theatre remains his first passion. Recently he starred to critical praise in the roles of Father Markus in the Nordic Drama winner for Best Play, The Fundamentalist by Juha Jokela and in '10 starred as Matthew in the character centric play: by Tom Sime Off Broadway, a role written for him by Sime. Additionally, He has performed all over New York Stages, Regional Theatre and Tours.

Primarily known for his strong character work and his unorthodox approach to classical theatre, he has played roles in Award winning productions such as Ragtime at Playhouse on the Square. He has been a front line dancer in Guys and Dolls in regional theatre and played 23 roles in 90 minutes in professional productions of The Complete History of America, Abridged by the Reduced Shakespeare company. Adam is the Producing Partner of the Modern Stage and collaborated with company Founder Tom Sime on the NYC Workshop production of Bloodletters as director as well directing Sime's Oh Nine reading series.

He has trained at Arkansas State University, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, with the late Paul Sills and Julia Landsford of The Metropolitan Opera.

Though his first passion will always be performing on and directing for the stage, he has recently started to share his talents on camera and plans to pursue more work in this form. He has been called "the epitome of the Actor/Practitioner" By Dr. Aaron Adair, "a Stradivarius any writer, director or producer would love to play" by Tom Sime, and "really smart director" by Joel Schumacher (Bloodletters).