Adam Flores

adam@stlshakes.org 2736 Armand Plc. C-(314) 363-2916

St. Louis, Mo. 63104

Curriculum Vitae
Current Position: St. Louis Shakespeare Festival 2019-Present
Manager of Community Engagement and Education
Shakespeare in the Streets (Producer)
Bevo Mill 2022
The Ville 2021
Brussels, IL and Normandy School District 2019
TourCo (Producer/Living Study Guide Writer)
Midsummer Night’s Dream 2022
Othello 2021
Cymbeline 2019
Confluence Playwrights Fellowship (Manager/Producer) 2019-Present
MidSummer Night’s Stroll (Manager/Producer) 2020
Shakespeare Squad/Summer Camp
Education
MFA Directing 2015
Baylor University, Waco Tx

Cornerstone Summer Residency Institute (i10 Salinas)

2013
Michael John Garces, Paula Donnelly, Juliette Carillo, supervisor Nikki Hyde

Labyrinth Theater Intensive Ensemble 2010

Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Stephen Adley Guirgis, John Ortiz, Maggie Flannigan

BA Performing Arts (Secondary Education Certification) 2007

Fontbonne University, St. Louis Mo.
Teaching Experience
Drama Pathway Teacher Sumner High School 2021
Assistant Professor Fontbonne University 2015-2019
Directing, Devised Theatre, Advanced Acting, Theatre Appreciation,
Multicultural Performance, and Theatre Teaching Methods.
Mission Core (Freshman Seminar)
Teacher of Record Baylor University 2013-2014
Theatre Appreciation Classes averaged 100 students a section.
Acting for Non-Majors
Teaching Assistant Baylor University 2012-2013
Middle School Teacher Parkway South Middle School 2007-2010
7th Grade Theatre Appreciations/8th Grade Theatre Lab/Head of Theatre Department

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Directing
Tiny Fingerprints (Premiere) University of Texas, Austin (UTNT)
Shakespeare in the Streets:Bevo (Premiere 9/22) St. Louis Shakespeare Festival
Othello St. Louis Shakespeare Festival
TourCo Production (90min)
Tolstoy’s Resurrection (Premiere Staged Reading) St. Louis Shakespeare Festival
The Every 28 Hour Plays (Premiere Staged Reading)
World Premier of eight one-minute plays about Ferguson and Black Lives matter.
Playwrights included David henry Hwang
Last Days of Judas Iscariot Mustard Seed Theatre
Bosnian American: Dance for Life (Premiere) Mustard Seed Theatre
Seedfolks COCA
Edges Fontbonne University
Principal Principle Fontbonne University
Girls in Boys Pants Fontbonne University
Crumble: Lay me down Justin Timberlake Fontbonne University
“…one-third of a nation” Baylor University
Love Song Baylor University
We are Hermits in the Coliseum (Devised Piece) Baylor University
Iconoclast (Premiere Staged Reading) Baylor University
I Am Not Batman Las Vegas Fringe Festival
My Paintings (Premiere) LAByrinth Theater Summer Intensive
Snow Angel Clayton High School
Bubba the Cowboy Prince Parkway South Middle School
Revenge of the Space Pandas Parkway South Middle School
Big Tush Little Tush Parkway South Middle School
Legend of Sleepy Hollow Parkway South Middle School
The Dinosaur Musical Parkway South Middle School
Ransom of Red Chief Parkway South Middle School
American Modern (One-Act) Parkway West High School
Proof Fontbonne University
Graceland (One-Act) Fontbonne University
Three Little Chickens Maplewood Barn Children’s Theatre
Assistant Directing
The Maids Upstream Theatre w/ Wieslaw Gorski
Dead Man’s Cellphone Baylor University w/ Steven Pounders
Scene Work Baylor University
The Heiress Ruth and Augustus Goetz
Le Misanthrope Moliere
Othello/Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare
Mud Maria Irene Fornes
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
The Chairs Eugene Ionesco

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Original Adaptations
“…one-third of a nation,” Baylor University
Two Gentlemen of Verona Sock Puppet Shakespeare Shake38
(Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis)
Mike Daisey’s The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs St. Louis Fringe Festival
w/Meghan Kenny
Remnant (for location) Mustard Seed Theatre
w/ Emily Immer
Producing (beyond current position)
The Every 28 Hour Plays
Local line producer in collaboration with Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the One-Minute Play
festival. Organized local and at-large actors, playwrights, and directors to produce eighty one-minute
plays about Ferguson and Black Lives Matter, in both Ferguson and Grand Art Center.

lilflo Productions (Founder):

Two Gentlemen of Verona Sock Puppet Shakespeare
Adapted by Adam Flores
Part of St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’ Shake38 Festival
For each audience member donated new packet of socks to the St. Peter and Paul Community
Services, as well as a matching grant to take the men in the shelter bowling.

Mike Daisey’s The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.

Adapted by Meghan Kenny and Adam Flores
Part of Inaugural St. Louis Fringe Festival.
For the production created a website that highlighted all the lies and half-truths in Mr. Daisey’s text.
http://theagonyandecstasyofstevejobs.weebly.com/index.html

I am not Batman
by Marco Ramierz
Part of Las Vegas Fringe Festival

Fontbonne University’s Tunnel of Oppression

Members of different marginalized groups within the Fontbonne community met with devised
theatre class to create an interactive experience. Worked with the Diversity and Athletic departments
to present two day event with over 350 participants going through the tunnel.

Professional Engagement
New Leadership Council Participant 2021
Theatre Communications Group Programming Council 2018-2019
Latinx Theatre Commons: Carnaval Participant 2018
Theatre Communications Group National Conference Host Committee 2018
Chair of the Field Trip committee (Organized field trip to Art House commune)
Regional Arts Commission: Evoke Thought Leader Forum 2017-18
Latinx Theatre Commons: Carnaval Participant 2015

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Professional Positions
Founding Resident Artist Mustard Seed Theatre 2007-Present
Serve on Artistic Advisory Board. Selecting of plays for season, house managing, as well as artistic and marketing
consulting for company.

Stage Manager
Cornerstone Theater Company Assistant to Nikki Hyde 2013
“Plumas Negras” an original production under the direction of Michael John Garces, Artistic Director of
Cornerstone Theater Company. Organized a full-length bilingual play with 38 actors, 27 community members
and 11 professional actors.
Mustard Seed Theatre 2011
“Falling” an original production under the direction of Lori Adams. Performed all of the appropriate duties for a
Stage Manager for small company and led post-show discussions after every production. The show moved to the
Minetta Lane Theater Off-Broadway in 2012 and earned a Drama Desk Nomination.
Act Inc. Theater 2006
“Drama at Inish” under the direction of Rob Grumich. Performed all of the appropriate duties of a Stage Manager
for small company.

Conference Presentations
“Reevaluating El Teatro Campesino’s dream for Zoot Suit’s prominence, place, and
plausibility on the Great White Way.” CDC March 2015
“There’s a fire at their house but it’s ok because we brought our water bottles and theatre
binoculars: Maintaining the economic status quo of 1850’s New York by presenting poverty
as spectacle in Dion Boucicault’s The Poor of New York.” CDC April 2014
“Lo que llamamos rosa con otro nombre would sound as sweet: The unintentional Othering
of the Sharks in Laurents’ 2009 revival of “West Side Story.” SWTXPCA Feb 2013
“I'm gonna lie to a lot of people: Fact and Myth Sharing the Stage and Virtual Platform in
Mike Daisey's The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs at the St. Louis Fringe Festival”
MATC March 2013
“The Boricua Freak and the Blue Collar Cable Guy: Hegemonic Otherness in the solo
performances of John Leguizamo and Daniel “Larry the Cable Guy” Whitney.”
SETC Theatre Symposium April 2013
Additional Training
Cornerstone Theatre Institute Convening (Presenter/Participant) 2015
Various Community Engagement Workshops
Masterclass: Directing 2015
Thomas Caruso
The Director’s Center Summer Strand Theatre Baltimore 2014
Will Davis and Michal Rau
Masterclass: Solo-Performance 2012
Dael Orlandersmith
KCACTF National Conference 2006
National Irene Ryan Workshops
William Inge Festival 2006
Varied Playwriting Workshops

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Actor
Thanksgiving Play Jaxton Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
Of Mice and Men George Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble
Motherfucker with the Hat Jackie R-S Theatrics
Blow Winds Fool St. Louis Shakespeare Festival
(World Premiere, Community-Engaged Project)
Yasmina’s Necklace Sam Mustard Seed Theatre
Burn This Pale Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble
Cockeyed Phil HotCity Theatre
(World Premiere, Samuel French Publishing)
Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train Angel R-S Theatrics
second Davey Non-Prophet Theatre
You Can’t Take It with You Ed Stray Dog Theatre
Remnant Loner Mustard Seed Theatre
The New World Trinculo St. Louis Shakespeare Festival
(World Premiere, Community-Engaged Project)
Twelfth Night Orsino St. Louis Shakespeare
Why Torture Is Wrong
and the People Who Love Them Zamir HotCity Theatre
Arabian Nights Madman, Ensemble St. Louis Shakespeare
One-Hour Star Wars Trilogy: LIVE! Ensemble Magic Smoking Monkey
Legally Blonde Harvard Professor Baylor University
Killing Women Joe, Johnny, Cooper HotCity Theatre
I Am Not Batman Boy Las Vegas Fringe Festival
Mike Daisey’s The Agony
and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs Mike Daisey St. Louis Fringe Festival
The Tale of the Allergist Wife Muhammad New Jewish Theatre
The As If Body Loop (Reading) Glen Mustard Seed Theatre
The Dead Guy Dougie HotCity Theatre
American Daughter Boy’s Voice, Cameraman Orange Girls
New Play Reader
Confluence Playwright Program St. Louis Shakespeare Festival 2019, 2022
“A Story Blinked” by Carter Lewis, “Can’t Unsee” by Elizabeth Archer
Green House New Play Festival HotCity Theatre 2008, 2011
“Cockeyed” by William Missouri Downs, “Shake and be Saved” by Christopher Wall
Playwriting Symposium MATC 2015
“Stop and Frisk” by Paco JoseMadden, “la luna” by John Perovich
New Play Lab Southern Illinois University 2020
“Gate 32” By Jacob Juntenen (Virtual)

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Service
Consuming Kinetics Dance Company Board Member 2020-Present
St. Louis Community Gospel Choir Board Member 2018-Present
Coronini Baptist Church (Romania) Vacation Bible School Teacher 2007
Taught, with the help of an interpreter, two classes of VBS to local 12-15 year olds in Coronini and Cozia, Romania.
Maplewood Barn Theatre Children’s Theatre Camp Director 2002
Jefferson City Community Center VBS Organizer/Teacher 2012

Awards
St. Louis Theater Circle Awards
Outstanding Lead in a Comedy Male or Non-binary 2022
(Jaxton in Thanksgiving Play)
Nomination-Outstanding Actor in a Comedy (Jackie in Motherfucker…) 2020
Nomination-Outstanding Ensemble (Director Last Days...) 2019
Kevin Kline Awards
Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor (Davey in second) 2008
Nomination for Outstanding Ensemble (You Can’t Take it with You) 2008
KCACTF
Irene Ryan Acting Competition National Winner Partner 2007
St. Louis Fringe Festival
Panel Selection “Best in Fringe” (Mike Daisey’s The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs) 2012
Baylor University
Nomination for Outstanding Graduate Instructor 2013, 2014
Baylor University Athletics
Outstanding Professor Award 2014
Grants
Baylor University Graduate School Travel Award 2013, 2014, 2015
California Legislature
Certificate of Recognition for work with Salinas community 2013

Professional References
Deanna Jent PHD
Professor Fontbonne University
djent@fontbonne.edu
Jennifer Wintzer
Artistic Director of Theatre COCA
Jwintzer@cocastl.org
Tom Ridgley
Producing Artistic Director St. Louis Shakespeare Festival
tom@stlshakes.org