Adam Oliensis

Adam Oliensis

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• Top Pro 2015-'23 - #1 Comedian for Hire in New York:  Thumbtack.com

• Winner: 2013 Paramount Theatre Standup & Acting Star Search

• Runner-Up: 2013 Ha-Ha Holiday Comedy Show & Contest

• Finalist: 2013 Slaughter Stand-Up Summer Showdown

• Tony & Drama Desk Award Nominee (Best Revival)

• Clio Award Nominee (Best Performance) (The Oscars of TV Commercials)

ADAM has been working in comedy for longer than he wants to admit. Not just as a Stand-Up Comedian but also in acting, writing, directing, and producing for TV, theatre, film, and commercials.

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In his stand-up, Adam explores the lessons in humility he’s learning from his wife and especially from his children, along with the adjustments being forced on him by being a grown-up and starting to get old. Having lived as a child in East Africa, studied martial arts in India, and languished spiritually in New Jersey, Adam is attuned to the absurdities that arise in the everyday, mining both the ironies and silliness that exist in the most humbling situations (with which he continues to gain vast experience).

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Adam recently appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. His debut comedy album, Aged Whine, has been played in its entirety on Sirius XM Radio 99, Raw Dog Comedy and tracks from the album are now in rotation.

Adam has recently opened for such comedy legends and luminaries as Robert Klein, Colin Quinn, Gilbert Gottfried, and Larry Miller.  He performs at comedy clubs all over New York City and the surrounding area, including regularly at Gotham Comedy Club, at Levity Live, Foxwoods Resort & Casino,  West Side Comedy Club, Comic Strip Live, Dangerfield's, Broadway Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, The Laugh Lounge, and Greenwich Village Comedy Club. Also at colleges, corporate & private events, synagogues, theatres, and JCCs throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.

As a writer, Adam co-authored the movie, The Pompatus of Love, with Jon Cryer (Best Comedy: Worldfest-Charlotte. Gold Award: Worldfest, Houston), which he also co-produced and in which he stars along with Mr. Cryer and Kristen Scott Thomas. 

Adam’s play, "Ring of Men" was honored with an Obie (the Oscars of Off-Broadway) as part of  Ensemble Studio Theatre's play festival, and has been produced in Los Angeles and regionally.  His work has been published by Dramatists Play Service,  and he has penned several TV pilots produced  and aired on Cable TV.

As an actor, Adam has appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway, in Regional Theatre, in the movies, on episodic TV, and in hundreds of TV and radio commercials. 

As Producing Director of Willow Cabin Theatre Co. for 12 years in New York City, Adam brought to the stage works by the likes of William Shakespeare, Eugene O’Neill, Thornton Wilder, and David Rabe. He produced, Wilder, Wilder, Wilder, the only show in history to go from off-off Broadway to off-Broadway to Broadway in a single season.

He has been nominated for a Clio Award (the Oscars of commercials) for Best Performance. He's also been nominated as a producer for both Tony & Drama Desk Awards for Best Revival. (And, no, it’s not an honor just to be nominated. Just being nominated sucks.)