As a Berks County native, local culture has always been a huge inspiration that Adam often filters though a counter-cultural lens. Hence, DeitschePunk aptly describes his approach to most things in the world of art and expression, as well as his aversion to all things mainstream. He firmly believes art is about telling the story, not selling the story. Please, buy him a sandwich.

Steeped in classical traditions of performance, Adam studied dance since the age of 3, acting, music, and voice since middle school, began getting paid for acting (or what most other actors mistakenly call "professionally") around the age of 12, and went on to study theatre at Kutztown University back when they had a theatre department, RIP. After school Adam pursued his teaching certification in the Alba Method for emotional expression, and spent the next 12 years waiting for people to admit they have emotions. He's still waiting.

From Columbine up to Covid, Adam performed in several bands in the Reading music scene from high school through college, worked with as many local theatre companies as would let him, and worked at too many college theatre programs right before their funding was cut. He has seen a lot of local art programs die.

During Covid and since, Adam was a member of the Pandemic Players PA, a frequent participant of the Bones Culture music collective (shout out Ben Oaks), and he also stumbled into home recording his music but will never call himself a producer. Currently, he is the Tech Director for Penn State Berks until their theatre dept dies, a very proud member of I.A.T.S.E local 97, and co-founder and creator with Rad Scrapple, and the Actor's School of Lancaster, whose goal is to transform actors into artists.

You can find Adam and his projects here:

Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Y5a6dsoexgrEbmRNN8EgF
Bandcamp : https://adamkissinger.bandcamp.com/
Scrapple : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoD4c9Q8dwQaeX8kacxE6yQ
Actor's School : www.lancasteractingschool.com
TikTok : search Rad Scrapple

Find The Story here: https://linktr.ee/thestorypodcast