ACTING

Ever since Adina was a child growing up in the quiet suburbs of Montreal, she has loved creating theatre and music, and making lots of noise in her house. In the early years, she enjoyed the process as a way to use her imagination, be spontaneous, and make audiences laugh. Even if it meant inviting friends, family, neighbours, and stuffed animals into the living room for a matinée performance, it was always play time! As she grew older, she realized the deeper importance to express voices of the human experience and tell stories, engaging viewers to connect, reflect, grow, digging deep into realities or indulging in the world of fantasy.

Throughout her life, Adina’s deepest love has been live theatre. Whenever there was an opportunity to be in a play, she auditioned. As a young adult she focused more on the art professionally, and branched out into also performing for screen and voice work. After graduating “With Distinction,” holding a B.A. from McGiIl University, majoring in English Drama and Theatre, and minoring in Humanistic Studies, which also included a year of exchange on scholarship at the University of Toronto’s acting program, she juggled many theatre and improv performances and started directing and teaching drama and improv to others as well.

Later on in her adult life, after taking workshops that focused on the Meisner acting technique, she decided to go to New York City and study the technique full time in its home, at The Neighbourhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. She then stayed in New York where she studied musical theatre at the Circle in the Square Conservatory on Broadway, and then took countless workshops in Improv, Musical Improv, Writing, etc… at UCB (Upright Citizens Brigade), Magnet Theatre, and with numerous private coaches. She had gone to New York to focus on acting, and ended up developing much more as a well rounded artist, ready and eager to create her own work and be more truthful with any material that came her way.

She then studied with full time courses at Chicago’s Second City, focusing on Musical Improv, Sketch Writing, Producing, Stand-Up Comedy, Musical Theatre and Comedic song writing, to name a few…and sunk her teeth into writing her own one woman show, Be a Good Girl. While she was there in Chicago, she also produced, directed, and played in Lalala and Order, and released her new EP, “Back to Before.”

She returned to Montreal in 2017, dove back into the acting scene, producing her one woman show numerous times on tour, founded an all-ladies musical improv troupe, “The Jazz Ands,” creating characters for comedy sketches such as “Bubby Golda,” and of course, got back to teaching the things she loves to others, and always playing… still making lots of noise in her house.