P-Jay Adams (she/they)
Voice Range: Baritone, High Tenor, Alto, Belter
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P-Jay Adams is a local Chicao, Il. actort with an Master's of Fine Arts
in Acting from DePaul University, & a Bachelor of Music in
Opera Performance from the University of Northern Colorado.
She spent two summers performing opera in Germany, performing
Monostatos in Mozart's The Magic Flute the first time and then
performing the role of Gaston in La Traviata while being Chorus
Master/Music Coordinator.
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She has performed professionally for over a decade in musicals,
taking on roles such as Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson's: The
Lightning Thief), Lin (The Great American Trailer Park Musical & The
Great American Trailer Park Christmas), Hud (Hair), Gator (Memphis),
Man 1 (Songs for a New World), Freddie (Chess), Clarence Norris
(Scottsboro Boys), & Seaweed (Hairspray), and both Ronnette and
Audrey II (Little Shop of Horrors). After years of performing,
she decided to write, co-compose and premier an original musical
"There Will Be Light" in May of 2021. Play credits include Lampito (
Lysistrata) and Zora (Lottery Day).
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She started teaching in 2018, and started building a voice studio in 2019. They made it a point to give students the skills to find their own voice, and help to guide them down the path of their own vocal journey. Primarily a musical theater singer (with a degree in opera performance), they have sung jazz, funk, r&b, gospel, pop, rock, rap, a Capella, and most genres of music.
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P-Jay Adams is an outspoken progressive community activists, advocating for equality in theater based on race and gender. Through doing, they have set out on a mission to prove that anybody can perform any role based on their gender identity, and is focused on reimagining theatre into a future of what it can be, unburdened by what it has been. She also believes that true diversity in theatre isn't casting people of color as side characters, but as main roles. In an ever changing world, she stands strong in her truth as a Black Queer transgender artist, and will continue to push her community and the world to do better and be better. She believes that art is inherently political, inherently protest, and will always join with and uplift outspoken voices fighting for diversity, equity and inclusion within all spaces, along with a general understanding of respect an basic human decency.
