Adam Noble

Head of MFA Acting

Adam Noble has worked as a professional artist, educator and movement specialist for over 25 years, performing in New York City, as well as regionally across the United States, and abroad. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.F.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle.

He apprenticed under Steve Pearson and Robyn Hunt of the Pacific Performance Project/east, who studied with Japanese theatre masters Shogo Ota and Tadashi Suzuki, before bringing their own “Physical Approaches to Performance” to the United States.

Adam has been blessed to collaborate with and learn from amazing actors and movement artists from around the world. He has worked with numerous professional companies including The Public Theater, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Stages Repertory Theatre, Opera Carolina, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Actor’s Playground, The Ilkhom Theatre of Mark Weil, P.S. 122, Opera Omaha, Island Stage Left, Cardinal Stage Company, Seattle Opera, Indiana Festival Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, the Dayton Opera and more.

In addition to his duties as Head of MFA Acting, Adam is also the resident fight director and intimacy specialist for The Alley Theatre, the studio movement instructor for the Houston Grand Opera, a freelance actor and director, and a voice over artist for Sentai Filmworks/Aesir Media.

He is the co-founder and artistic director of the Dynamic Presence Project, a company focused on the revitalization and proliferation of movement theatre and physical storytelling. As a freelance movement consultant, Adam has helped to shape, build ensemble, and construct movement vocabularies for operatic, cinematic and theatrical projects.

Adam has taught movement at the University of Houston, Indiana University, California State University of Fresno, and the University of Washington. He has taught master classes at Rice University, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Jacobs School of Music, Illinois State University, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Earlham College, The SOMA Theatre Collective, and Central Washington University.

Adam is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Stage Directors & Choreographers, the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.  He is an Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, and a Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors.  Adam is a trained stuntman who has taught movement and stage combat both nationally and internationally, and he has choreographed the violence for well over 200 stage and film productions.