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e-mail me: adele@bfgfproductions.com Actor/Film Make/Writer Adele D’Man spoke her first stage line, “Look there’s a light up there” at the tender age of four in a neighborhood community theater production. From that moment on, Adele’s fate in the performing arts was sealed. She went on to graduate in film and theater from Emerson College in Boston. By graduation, Adele was acting in Boston productions and had written and directed two films. Adele’s first film, called “Crushed Innocence,” was shot in the Boston Commons and in the brownstone she shared with a roommate. The film was about a young woman who answered a singles ad -- placed by a madman. “Youthful Illusions” was Adele’s second film. Due to the suggestive context, this was a very ambitious film, which centered on three childhood friends. “Youthful Illusions” received raved reviews and an original soundtrack was created specifically for her film. Upon graduation, Adele began acting and directing in a number of professional improvisational and comedy groups in the Boston area. After one year, Adele decided to return to two of her past loves, film and New York City. It was there where BFGF Productions, Ltd. changed from a dream into a reality. Adele became President and continued acting, writing and directing. In New York, Adele immediately began directing and producing theater productions and video shorts and films. Adele continued to act in television, film and off-Broadway. Other BFGF Productions from these early years include the films, “Last One At Fischer Street” and “Wendy + Steve.” Along with
writing and directing, in 2002, Adele had been featured on television
acting in comedic videos, which appeared on the “Ananda
Lewis Show” and then again on the “Best In Summer 2003, Adele played the role of Carol in the feature film “The Secret Lives of Dentists” with Dennis Leary. It opened with very strong reviews. Ebert and Roeper gave it two thumbs up and Entertainment Weekly gave it a perfect “A”. Adele also did casting for the feature film, “Camp” directed by Todd Graff. “Camp” was a huge Sundance Film Festival hit. Both are currently playing across the country. Adele is currently in pre-production for her film, “The American Dream,” which she wrote and will also direct. This is a movie about twenty-somethings striving for riches in an addictive, cult-like business. We watch the characters decide what they are willing to sacrifice for unlimited wealth. In addition, Adele has a completed feature-length screenplay loosely based on her childhood in the 1980’s, titled “My Neighborhood”. It has been described as “vivid and thick in texture,” “heartfelt and hysterical” and “a realistic look at Brooklyn from a perspective rarely told – a woman’s.” Adele D’Man feels her life was destined to follow this creative path. Her mother (a former stand-up comedienne) and father (a former trial attorney) are writers; her relatives include an opera singer and her famous cousin, Don Richardson, who was one of the original members of the famed “Group Theater,” inspired by the legendary Stanislovsky. Four-year-old Adele foretold her own story when she exclaimed, “Look there’s a light up there!” In 2009 Adele is working on a TV series based on her screenplay, "The American Dream." |
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