Dwight Adair                              www.dwightadair.com  dwightadair@gmail.com                                    11511 Queens Way                                                  Austin, Texas 78759-4468                                            Phone: 512-431-0679

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FILM/TELEVISION/CORPORATE VIDEO PRODUCER-DIRECTOR-WRITER

Dwight has written, directed and/or produced documentaries, many television commercials, infomercials, corporate image pieces, and government promotional and training videos.

 

GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL/PROMOTIONAL WORK: DIRECTOR-WRITER

*Lockheed Martin’s SBI Net film script

*USTRANSCOM’s “AT21-Partners in a Journey of Transformation” 3D video for

Gen. Duncan McNabb

*Lockheed Martin’s CMS FPS2 FEDSIM technical video proposal

*KBR’s SOFETOPS FEDSIM technical video proposal


PRODUCING:
"She Fought Alone" NBC Productions and Granite House MOW 1995
“Dream House” Home & Garden TV Network SERIES 2000
“Go For It!” Documentary Pilot about female athletes
“Faded Love” Documentary about Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
"Tommy Hancock: West Texas Muse" Documentary about this influential musician/song writer/spiritualist
"Tributaries" Documentary with poetry and original score


DIRECTING:
Dwight has directed the following episodes of PRIME TIME DRAMATIC  TELEVISION, 1987-1990:
"DALLAS"--CBS-- "Those Darned Ewings"
"Sunset, Sunrise"
"Cry Me A River Of Oil"
"Pillow Talk"
"War And Peace"


"DYNASTY"--ABC--"Tale Of The Tape"
"All Hands On Dex"
"Delta Woe"
"The Last Hurrah"

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  • DIALOGUE/DIALECT COACHING:
    Dwight was the dialogue coach on the Feature Films:
    "BOYCHOIR" - 2014- Dustin Hoffman, Debra Winger, Kathy Bates
    "SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA" -2010-Robert Duvall, Lucas Black
    “DROP DEAD SEXY” -2004-Crispen Glover, Jason Lee
    "A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT" -1992-Academy Award Nominated
    "HARD COUNTRY" -1981-Kim Basinger, Daryl Hannah
    "URBAN COWBOY" -1980-John Travolta,, Debra Winger


    DIALECT COACHING:
  • PRIME TIME NETWORK TELEVISION
    "URBAN COWBOY" (Pilot)/ABC (2015) starring James Edward Olmos, Jim Belushi
    "DALLAS"/CBS (1983-1989) starring Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval
    "THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING"/NBC (1982) starring Pearl Bailey, Howard Rollins Jr.
    "ALL THE WAY HOME"/NBC (1982) starring William Hurt, Sally Field
    "OLDEST LIVING GRADUATE"/NBC (1981) starring Henry Fonda, Cloris Leachman, Tim Hutton, John Lithgow


    NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM WRITING:
    "Deep Within My Heart",  a period piece character story
    "Mestizo", a romantic adventure/political thriller
    "Texas Lullaby", a horror/suspense

"Wildfire!", an action/adventure

"A Phantom Empire", a retro sci-fi musical farce

"Damaged Goods", a sexually abused woman is rescued by a passing stranger

“The Rope”, the existential fate of four shipwrecked WW2 sailors tied together at sea.

 

DRAMATIC TELEVISION WRITING:

"The Charge", a tale of redemption (co-written with Alan De'Osuna)

"LottoLuck", a reporter researches lottery winners for a weekly column (+ (3) episodes)
"The Searcher", a female private detective in search of missing persons

"Johnson and Zavalla", partners in Homeland Security Force, year 2030.

“Gone West”, trials and hardships of 1830’s settlers in the Southwest

EDUCATION:
B.A. Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas
M.A. School of Theology at Claremont, California
A.B.D. Communications, Graduate R/T/Film, University of Texas at Austin

 

AFFILIATIONS:
Director's Guild of America
“Leadership Austin” Graduate, 1998-1999
Director, Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce Board, 2001 & 2002
President, Granite House Inc., Austin, Texas, 1994 – 2002
Adjunct Professor, St. Edward’s University. MBA Digital Media Board, 2005-2010

Board Member, "Bob Wills Heritage Foundation" 2012 - Present
Board Member, "Survive 2 Thrive" Foundation, Present



 

Photograph by and courtesy of Van Redin.
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