Dwight Adair dwightadair@gmail.com

11511 Queens Way
Austin, Texas 78759-4468
Phone: 512-431-0679

DVD DOCUMENTARIES, COMMERCIALS, INFOMERCIALS, PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS

Dwight has written, directed and/or produced documentaries, many television commercials, infomercials, corporate image pieces, promotional and training videos including USTRANSCOM, “AT21-Partners in a Journey of Transformation” viewed by the Joint Chiefs Staff, and FPS2 Video Proposal all for Lockheed Martin.

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"
"Body Trouble"

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

Dwight was the dialogue coach on the PRIME TIME NETWORK TELEVISION programs or Series Pilots:
"URBAN COWBOY" (Pilot) -ABC- 2015 James Edward Olmos, Jim Belushi
"DALLAS" --CBS—1983-1989 --Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval
"THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING" --NBC--1982-- Pearl Bailey, Howard Rollins Jr.
"ALL THE WAY HOME" --NBC—1982--William Hurt, Sally Field
"OLDEST LIVING GRADUATE" --NBC--1981--Henry Fonda, Cloris Leachman, Tim Hutton, John Lithgow

NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM WRITING:
Dwight has written the following Feature Screenplays:
"Deep Within My Heart"--period piece character story
"Mestizo"--romantic adventure/political thriller
"Texas Lullaby"---horror/suspense

"Wildfire!" --action/adventure

"A Phantom Empire" musical farce

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

 

Dwight has also written the following DRAMATIC TELEVISION  PILOTS:

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

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

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

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
Advisor & 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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