About

Adam Grant Warren

Now based in Vancouver, Adam was born and raised in Newfoundland, Canada. He started writing professionally in his early twenties, as a radio columnist for the CBC Morning Show. In that time, he also became Newfoundland’s youngest ever winner of both the Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, and the George Story Medal of Excellence in the Arts.

Adam then moved west to study at Vancouver Film School. His films have since screened as official selections at festivals including California’s Newport Beach Film Festival, the National Screen Institute’s Online All-Star Reel, and the Vancouver International Film Festival – where Float took home the honours for Best Canadian Short in 2012. In 2016, Conocerlos: Get to Know Them earned him his first BC Film Award nomination for Best Screenwriting.

As a performer, Adam is an Artistic Associate with both Vancouver’s All Bodies Dance Project and Realwheels Theatre. He has appeared in stage productions including Frank Theatre’s All In, Realwheels’ CREEPS, and Touchstone’s Kill Me Now — the latter two earning him Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.

Following development as part of the National Writers’ Circle at Vancouver’s Playwrights’ Theatre Centre, Adam’s solo show, Last Train In, premiered to critical acclaim at UNOFest and rEvolver. More recently, Lights, won Touchstone Theatre’s 2019 Flying Start Playwrights Competition and marked the beginning of the company’s 50th anniversary season. Adam’s current play, Saturday Nights at Axles, was the final component of his full-scholarship MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and is now in development nationally. In 2024, he’ll join the Scotiabank Dance Centre as an Artist-in-Residence.