A native of Chicago, Adam Steinberg currently teaches English language and literature at an international school in Berlin, Germany. Long before teaching, he toiled in Seattle as a producer of kids' educational CD-ROMs for Edmark (at one point an IBM company) before following his songwriting craft to New York, where he earned an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He also studied for two years with Chicago's New Tuners Musical Theatre, and spent several years as a member of New York City's BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

Besides winning several state and regional awards for acting back in the day, Adam has performed his songs at events such as the Seattle International Folklife Festival and Chicago's Earth Day Festival.

Readings of his work in New York include Farmer Eli's Vacation, a one-act adaptation of 1895 story by Alice Brown (collaborating with composer Ben Cohn); The Dance of Salome, a full-length theatrical rock concert (collaborator: James Marler); and The Big Kahuna, a one-act "moreality play" (collaborator: Brad Aspel). In Chicago, the short musical America's Sweetheart was performed in a festival at the Theater Building (collaborators Chris Staton and Jim Stevens), and his song Let the Buyer Beware was featured in a songwriting showcase at that venue. Other lyrics in use include Who's That Bear (theme song for an animated pilot, Bear #13).

More recent musical projects on various burners include the revision and expansion of The Big Kahuna; Connor's Wor, examining the common man's role in an extraordinary universe; and The Love Pump, a romantic non-musical comedy-drama.

His poem "Sweat of My Brow" was read on National Public Radio's The Next Big Thing in 2002, and he co-founded a creative team that had proposals for two children's television programs, Willa Wonders and Sounds Like Willa, under serious consideration at Disney and Noggin (Nickelodeon) in 2003-04.

Adam has also been a(n):

• video producer and camera operator.
• 35mm film and video editor.
• puppeteer.
• editor and writer for educational publications online and in print.
• talent marketing consultant, helping arts professionals prepare marketing materials and strategies to advance their careers.
• editor-in-chief of an annual environmental magazine with a circulation reaching 320,000.
• project manager for Open Doors , the Theatre Development Fund's well-respected arts-in-education program providing inner-city high school kids with the chance to attend professional theatre productions, followed by in-depth discussions with theatre mentors.
• copy editor for Kaplan K12, Microsoft, and a variety of other clients (international) for technical and non-technical materials and publications.

After a stint teaching ESL fo F.E.G.S., he trained as a STARRR Cohort, gained his NYC OPD license (as a substitute teacher), and taught a literacy-through-drama curriculum to K-4 students at CS 47 and PS 48 in the South Bronx. He was also a sub at Packer Collegiate Academy. He then worked as a teaching artist for three Manhattan-based arts-in-education organizations, teaching a curriculum including poetry, playwriting, conflict resolution, and other subjects at all grade levels.

In 2006, he packed up his educational experience and moved with his family to Berlin, Germany, where he secured a position teaching English language and literature at the Berlin Brandenburg International School.

Adam is married to the wonderful Stephanie and has two sons, Elliott (7/13/2005) and Jasper (6/10/2007).

Member of ASCAP, the Association for a Media Literate America and, when in the United States, of The Dramatists Guild.