ABOUT ADAM
Adam Boncz is an actor, teacher and producer working both in Hungary and internationally.
In the early years of his career he worked extensively as a performer at the Szeged National Theatre in Hungary where he played Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse, Fyedka in Fiddler on the Roof, Joey in the Lieutenant of Inishmore, Georgie in the Clockwork Orange. He studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City. In New York Adam has appeared in the Off-Broadway play Neither Heaven nor Earth, the critically acclaimed production of Fatelessness (New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination for Best Solo Performance) and After Othello, worked in numerous productions of the New Stage Theatre Company (Cafe Cino Award and New York Innovative Theatre Award winner for Best Production), collaborated with Gia Forakis & Company. Adam has also worked with Oscar-nominee Josh Fox and the International WOW Company on two productions: Auto Da fe and Reconstruction. With the Nikolett Pankovits Sextet he collaborated on several unique poetry-jazz evenings which he performed at the Lincoln Center and at Carnegie Hall.
Adam has also appeared in several international film and TV productions, including: Shadow & Bone (Netflix), Rematch (ARTE/HBO), Infinity Pool (NEON), FBI: International (CBS), The Fear Index (Sky Channel) and Love on the Right Course (Hallmark Channel) among others. On screen he had the privilege to work with such artists as Uma Thurman, Kate Winslet, Alexander Skarsgard, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hartnett, Trine Dyrholm, Christiane Paul and such directors as Brandon Cronenberg, Shawn Levy, Ellen Kuras, John Polson and Oscar-nominee director Yan England. Adam has acted in films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and at the Berlinale.
As a producer he founded SceneHouse Productions which produced the world premiere of Fatelessness, a stage adaptation of Nobel Prize Winner Imre Kertész’s novel. He also worked on productions such as O.Rex, Goblin Market and the staged reading of the Hungarian-American co-production To Dance. He worked as an assistant producer on such projects as the interdisciplinary opera Women: The War Within or the Dries Van Noten Retrospective. He facilitated shows for the Times Square International Theater Festival, the New York Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He is one of the organisers of the Hungary L!ve Festival, New York’s only biannual Hungarian theatre festival. He is a graduate of the Broadway League’s Commercial Theater Institute and is a member of Theater Resources Unlimited, where he was awarded the New Producer Endowment Award in 2016. He holds a certificate in Arts Management from the SUNY Purchase College.
He has also served as a casting associate on numerous productions and has worked on several feature films like The Independents and Impossible Monsters, and large scale video-installations such as Figure Studies.
Adam is also an educator and holds various acting workshops around Europe. His two main focuses are Clown & Physical Comedy and Audition Technique. He has taught workshops at Classica Viva Academy (Italy), MetroWorks Drama School, Improka Improv Theatre Company, Hungary L!ve Foundation and HatásSzünet Műhely among other places.