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Author,
actor, singer-songwriter - the only life for Adam-Michael James is a creative
one. His love affair with writing sparked as soon as he taught himself to
write at the age of three. By 14 he was writing song lyric, and by 17 he
began his first novel - it became Undo the Deed, a time travel story
with a child abuse theme that was published in 2002. AMJ is also a broadcasting
school graduate with five years' radio experience - as a deejay for a Florida
country station, and as writer, producer, and air talent for a weekly show
in Los Angeles that earned him a Golden Mike Award for Best Entertainment
Reporting.
Show biz was also the topic for AMJ's 2005 book Extra Extra!: Memoirs from A Piece of Human Furniture, a how-to inspired by making over 100 appearances in television and movies as a background actor in Hollywood. By this time he had recorded dozens of his own songs; he recorded one for Extra Extra! and shot an accompanying video which was released on DVD. It seemed the next natural step to combine songwriting with theatre after having appeared in theatrical productions since grade school - AMJ next wrote the book and lyrics for the musical biography The Nine Lives of L.M. Montgomery, collaborating with Emmy-nominated composer Leo Marchildon. The multimedia spectacle about the "Anne of Green Gables" author gained much notoriety in her native Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, running there for two impressive seasons in 2008 and 2009, with AMJ also directing and performing. AMJ has done script analysis for several Hollywood production companies, and currently writes an opinion column on soapcentral.com. Plans for 2010 include resuming his third book, recording new songs, and starting work on a second musical. |