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Adam Rapp (born in Chicago, Illinois) is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker.

The son of Mary Lee and Douglas Rapp, he was raised in Joliet, Illinois, with his brother, actor Anthony Rapp, and sister, Anne. His parents divorced when Rapp was five, and he and his siblings were raised by their mother, who died in 1997. He graduated from Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, and completed a two-year playwriting fellowship at Juilliard.

Rapp is the author of several young adult novels, including Missing the Piano, The Buffalo Tree, The Copper Elephant, Little Chicago, 33 Snowfish, and Under the Wolf, Under the Dog. He has also written two graphic novels, Ball-peen Hammer and Decelerate Blue, which will be published by First Second Books.

The Buffalo Tree was censored by the Muhlenberg School Board in Reading, Pennsylvania due to its themes, graphic language and sexual content. [1]

His plays include: American Sligo, Animals and Plants, Bingo with the Indians, Blackbird, Dreams of the Salthorse, Faster, Finer Noble Gases, Gompers, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, Mistral, Netherbones, Night of the Whitefish, Nocturne, Should’ve Never, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Train Story, Trueblinka and Red Light Winter. His most recent play, Essential Self-Defense, will be performed at Playwrights Horizons in March 2007. Rapp is currently the playwright-in-residence at Edge Theatre Company.

Rapp directed his first film, Winter Passing with Zooey Deschanel and Will Ferrell in 2005, and was a creative consultant for the television show The L Word.

Rapp was a member of the band Bottomside, which released “The Element Man” in September 2004. He is currently a member of Less the Band, which released “Bear” in April 2006. .

External links

• Red Light Winter Now Playing in Washington, DC

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