Adam Meisner writes plays, fiction and poetry and works in arts and culture policy.

In 2023, Scirocco Drama published Adam’s play, For Both Resting and Breeding, about a society without gender in the year 2150. Talk is Free Theatre premiered the play in 2018, and they have since toured the piece to the Adelaide Festival in Australia in early 2020, Northern Ontario in March 2023, and Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina in November 2023. 

Adam’s other writing has appeared in various literary journals, including the Ex-Puritan, Copper Nickel, and Ninth Letter. Adam’s short theatre piece “Instructions for the Invocation of Your Queer Ancestors” was published in This is Beyond: A Time Capsule of Queer Experience, from Playwrights Canada Press in 2024.

Adam studied theatre at the University of Toronto and the University of Manchester and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Adam also studied writing at the Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, and the Humber School for Writers.

For the last fifteen years, Adam has worked at the Canada Council for the Arts, Canada’s public arts funder, holding roles in research and evaluation, communications and strategic foresight and policy.

Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, Adam now lives between Ottawa and Toronto.

You can email Adam at adamwmeisner@gmail.com