Jim Adams(III)
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Born in Auburn, New York, Jim made his stage debut in kindergarten at
the age of 5. He has continued to perform on stage since. His family
moved to Raleigh, North Carolina his sophomore year in high
school,opening the door for him to attend the University of North
Carolina. Following a brief stint working in Georgia, Jim returned to
Chapel Hill and began work in video and television production. His
expertise was sports photography (freelancing with CBS, ESPN, WTBS and
ABC) with the Tar Heel Sports network. After moving to Georgia in 1984,
Jim began a long career as a radio personality in the metro-Atlanta
area, hosting a morning wake-up show for a metro-Atlanta radio station
until Feb 2007. He has been fixture in the metro-Atlanta theatre scene
since 1985, serving on the board of Directors for the Georgia Theatre
Conference and working as Senior Artistic Director for the Canton
Theatre. Has received several awards for his political reporting and
feature writing while he was a news reporter with the Cherokee
Ledger-News in Woodstock, Georgia. He briefly returned to radio hosting
an afternoon drive home show for 6 months in 2011 while also working as
a free-lance writer and Producer for two independent features. He left
the radio industry after a tornado that affected 5 states on April 27th
of 2011 completely destroyed his home. He and his 80-year-old mother
survived the incident with only minor injuries. in 2014, Jim became the host of "Nerdvana," a talk show dedicated to "Nerd" and "Geek" interests with Jess Roberts. Two years later he started "Monster Attack," a podcast dedicated to old Monster Movies. The podcast can now be heard on the Project Entertainment network.