Adam was born in Boston, raised in Baltimore, and seduced by New York. He enjoys musical theatre, peanut butter, and writing about himself in the third person.

Adam came to New York as a freshman at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. A budding control freak, Adam wanted to do it all when it came to theatre. So he signed up at Tisch's Playwrights Horizons Theater School, whose motto was, "Budding Control Freaks: Come Do It All."

There, he had a musical theatre teacher named David Bucknam, who was an amazing composer and lyricist and human being. Adam decided he wanted to be the next David Bucknam. So that summer, he went up to the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY, just like David had done, and started writing songs.

Adam thought it was cool when people actually liked the songs he wrote, and when people wanted to hear them again, and when people asked him to write songs for them. So he came back to NYC and wrote and wrote. He wrote music for plays and films and concerts and performance pieces and more plays. He wrote songs for himself and his friends, for boys he liked, for singers he'd never met. Sometimes he even wrote a song instead of a term paper and turned it in. But he liked writing for musical theatre most of all.

He liked it because it was smart and visceral all at the same time. He liked it because he could figure out issues in his life by pretending there was a character who figured out the issue for him during a song. And every now and then, someone would tell him that one of his songs had made them think and feel and notice something in the world they hadn't noticed before, the same way Adam's favorite songs had affected him, and it made Adam happy.

On his quest to become the next David Bucknam, Adam got compared to a lot of other writers. He remembered how a neighbor of his in Baltimore used to call him Little Mozart, which he liked because it meant he was practicing his piano. A singer on one of his CDs told his mom that he was like Adam Guettel, which Adam liked because they shared the same name, and he was a fan. An actor in one of Adam's readings put out a press release that said Adam's music was like Jonathan Larson-meets-Stephen Sondheim-meets-Kurt Weill, which Adam liked because it was such a wacky thing to say. A nice old couple came up to Adam after one of his shows and told him he was the next Kander and Ebb, which Adam liked because he wished he was two people in one. Some people wrote that he was a new Michael John LaChiusa, which Adam liked because he loves three-named composers. (Adam, incidentally, has four names, but thinks using them all would be overkill.)

But nowadays, people have been using words like "fresh" and "original" to describe Adam's work, which he likes best of all.

Recently, Adam played a new song for a friend of his, who said, "Ooh, that is so Adam Gwon." He hopes more people will start to say that, too.

Learn more by reading Adam's official bio.