Adam Mendelson is an Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Chair at University of Maryland-Baltimore County Department of Theatre where he teaches Lighting, Sound and Digital Media Design and  has designed over 45 productions after helping prepare the new theatre spaces for the opening of the state-of-the-art Performing Arts and Humanities Building in August of 2012.

He previously taught design at the University of Wyoming, the University of Texas-Arlington, Stephens College (Columbia, MO), and Lawrence Academy (Groton, Massachusetts).  Adam currently serves as the Vice-Chair of OISTAT’s Lighting Sub-Commission and is the Lighting Commission co-International Representative and Delegate from the USITT centre.

Design credits include: Everyman Theatre, Baltimore, MD: The Book Club Play, The Sound Inside (Lighting Design). 1st Stage, Tysons, VA: The Piano Lesson, Shutter Sisters, The Logan Festival of Solo Performance 2025 ; Theatre J: Tiny Lights; Pepper Theatre, Munich Germany: The Amish Project; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Sound Design); Rep Stage: Falsettos (Sound Design), Songs For A New World (Sound Design), Souvenir, The Heidi Chronicles; Classic Theatre of Maryland: A Christmas Carol, White Christmas, Cabaret, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Pride and Prejudice, Hamlet, Blithe Spirit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and over 35 others; Lexington Children’s Theatre: Ella Enchanted, Charlotte’s Web; Persiphere Theatre: Blue Room, Time Is On Our Side; Interrobang Productions @ The Voxel: I Will Eat You Alive;  [DANCE]: Multiple shows each: Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), LA Dance (Massachusetts), Snowy Range Dance (Wyoming), Towson University Department of Dance (Maryland)