composer | lyricist | librettist | songwriter
Adam (they/he) is a composer and writer who is passionate about dramatic works but experienced in myriad mediums. They are interested in exploring genres, mixing performance mediums, and radical collaboration.
Their work has been performed at New York Musical Festival (NYMF), The GreenRoom 42, The West End Lounge, A Little New Music, The Maas Building, The Hartt School, Temple University, and more. Their dramatic works have been developed with Roundabout Theatre Company, the George and Joy Abbott Center for Musical Theatre, Theatre Now New York, UNTITLED Musical Project, and more.
Adam has studied composition, lyric writing, and dramatic writing with the likes of Anna K. Jacobs, Sam Carner, Gilda Lyons, Thomas Schuttenheml, and Anne Marie Cammarato. They hold the Abbott M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Collaboration (Composer/Lyricist Concentration) from the George and Joy Abbott Center for Musical Theatre at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are currently a D.M.A. Composition candidate at The Hartt School at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut.
dramatic works
All of the pieces below are at various stages of development.
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The Naked Truth
Words & Music by Adam J. Rineer
Words & Music by Ian B. Connor
Run time: 90 minutes
Cast size: 10
Band size: 5
Sick Moves! (or The Dancing Plague of 1518)
Music & Lyrics by Adam J. Rineer
Book by Jason Aguirre
Run Time: 115 minutes
Cast of 14+
Orchestration (5-8)
A Trip to the Moon
Music & Text by Adam J. Rineer
Run Time: 90 minutes
Cast size: 12+
Band size: 7
Obscene, Lewd, Lascivious, and Filthy!
Music & Add'l Text by Adam J. Rineer
Text from Case 241 F.2d 772
Run Time: 15 minutes
Cast size: 5
Band size: 3
THIRD SEX
1930s transvestite lieder
Music & Adaptation
by Adam J. Rineer
Cast size: 5+
Band size: 4
Ghosted
Music & Lyrics by Adam J. Rineer
Book by Jason Aguirre
Run Time: 10 minutes
Cast size: 3
Band size: 4
BrandedTM!
Music & Lyrics by Adam J. Rineer
Book by Rachel Graf Evans
Concept & Direction by Jason Aguirre
Run Time: 90 minutes
Cast size: 12+
in early development
Bitchfest: LIVE!
Concept, Music, and Lyrics by Adam J. Rineer
Book and Lyrics by Rachel Graf Evans
Originally commissioned by Prima Theatre (Lancaster, PA, USA) primatheatre.org
Cast Size: 5
Band Size: 4
History:
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2022 - Table Reading, ART/NY, NYC
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Developed in the UNTITLED Musical Writers Group, NYC
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Developed in part in the Theatre Now New York Musical Writers Lab, NYC
Public Dominance
Music by Adam J. Rineer
Book and lyrics by Jason Aguirre
History:
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2022 - Apollo Space Jam, Roundabout Theatre Company, NYC
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Developed in the UNTITLED Musical Writers Group, NYC
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Developed in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop
other works
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Introspections
fixed electronic media
Run time: 9 minutes
Merce (Season 2)
Musical Webseries
Produced by Skipping Boyz Productions
Contributed songs by Adam J. Rineer
individual works
Delaroche's Execution
in progress
fl., cl., hp., 2 vln., vla., vlc.
Duration: approx. 30 minutes
Escitalopram 10 Mg
2022
fixed media electronics
Duration: 4 minutes, 52 seconds
Description:
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(X)CCXXVI
2022
fixed media electronics
Duration: 12 minutes, 6 seconds
Description:
10226 days, 19 hours, 47 minutes
telecaster noise
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RECLAIMING MY CRINGE ERA (or a nightmarish meditation of 53 of my Facebook posts from
the year 2012 that we’re all just gonna have to endure...XD)
2022, in progrress
voice and electronics
Duration: approx. 5 minutes
strange clowns bring great joy
2022
piano, violin, and cello
Duration: 5 minutes
Description:
LEO (JULY 23 -AUG. 22) Seek higher wisdom. Strange clowns bring great joy.
Key Word: behave
November/December 1999, The Lancaster Inqueery, LGBT-002 Lancaster, PA Activism Collection
LGBT History Project Archives & Special Collections Waidner-Spahr Library
Performances:
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2022 - Recording, Galan Trio
A Gift from the Belmont Funeral Home
2022
voice and piano
Text by Lillian Wonderly
Duration: 5 minutes
Performances:
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2022 - Leaftides: An Evening of Poetry and Song Collaboration Concert, Wilde Auditorium, The Hartt School
Jeezits I - IV
202
fixed media electronics
Duration: 2 minutes, 29 seconds
Description:
Using text found in the Amazon reviews for Broadman Church Supplies Communion Wafer, Cross Design, 1,000 Count, this fixed media piece is a humorous meditation on the intersection of religious trauma and capitalism. All four movements use my voice exclusively to produce all sounds, manipulated through pitch and time flexing.
Rhiannon's Suite
2020
piano, synthesizer, and percussion
for The Handmaid Rhiannon, a play by Rachel Graf Evans
Description:
From Rachel Graf Evans: “Daphne thinks she's been summoned to the Palace for a Princess eligibility contest she's unlikely to win. Eloïse, meanwhile, thinks she's meeting, greeting, and dressing her future Queen for the Royal Wedding. A sweet one-act about two young women who form an unlikely bond as they navigate the messy waters of expectation, duty, and how to love.”
With a scene description of "some distant yet eerily familiar era, like feeling déjà vu tomorrow," this score pulls sounds from past and present to create an unsettling landscape for this unrequited queer love story.
Performances:
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2020 - National Coming Out Day Short Play Festival, Virtual
Elements of Capture I - IV
2019
fixed media electronics
Duration: 5 minutes
Lapsed for a Moment
2013
flute and piano
Duration: approx. 2 minutes, 15 seconds
Performances:
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2013 - Messiah University