Adam
Larsen
Adam Larsen has designed video projections for over 200 theatres, dance, symphony, and opera productions. Projects have ranged from intimate to extravagant and have appeared both on Broadway and in many major venues across the country. Adam's multifaceted work has led to collaborations with leading voices in Symphony and Opera, including five operas with Opera Omaha, fifteen projects with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, three with composer John Adams, and projects with Joni Mitchell, Janelle Monae, and Esperanza Spalding.
Notable designs include Hal Prince's LoveMusik on Broadway; Missy Mazzoli's Breaking The Waves at Opera Philadelphia and the Prototype Festival; Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus at the Athens, Edinburgh, and Spoleto festivals; Esperanza Spalding's 12 Little Spells national tour; Watermill at the B.A.M. Next Wave Festival; Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle at the Singapore and Edinburgh festivals; the direction and design for a semi-staged production of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle at the Houston Symphony; David Lang's Prisoner of the State at the New York Philharmonic; Bernstein's Mass at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Lincoln Center; Britten's Peter Grimes, Bernstein's On the Town, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, as well as all seven seasons of the SoundBox series at San Francisco Symphony.
In addition, Adam has directed two feature-length documentaries about disability. His first, Neurotypical, about autism from the perspective of autistics, premiered on the PBS series P.O.V. His second, Undersung, is about caregivers of severely disabled family members.