ADAM WACHTER is a music director, composer, keyboardist, orchestrator, and arranger based in New York City.

Wachter has music directed productions at many of the country's top theaters, including Barrington Stage Company, North Shore Music Theater, Northern Stage, Weston Playhouse, and Theatre-by-the-Sea. He toured the country with Paul Williams and Garry Marshall's Happy Days the Musical and Off-Broadway supervised the upcoming Old Jews Telling Jokes at the Westside Theater, was on the music team and and in the band of the recent revival of Carrie, the Musical and conducted the critical and commercial success Yank! at the York Theater. He has worked extensively with music director Mary-Mitchell Campbell, assisting her on workshops (Last Dance, Ace), Off-Broadway productions (Carrie, In Transit), and playing keyboard under her baton in the pit orchestra of Broadway's The Addams Family. As associate to vocal arranger AnnMarie Milazzo, he has helped create new musicals with Burt Bacharach, Steven Sater, and Sea World. Wachter is also a first-call audition accompanist for the top Broadway casting directors and is quoted as an expert in Sheri Sanders' book "Rock the Audition" (Hal Leonard Publishing).

An in-demand cabaret and concert music director, Wachter served as music director at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Cabaret and Performance Conference where he worked with the prestigious Fellows program, led by Penny Fuller. He has music-directed dozens of cabarets and concerts at prestigious venues such as Feinstein's, Joe's Pub, Hammerstein Ballroom, Don't Tell Mama's, Tupelo Music Hall, Ars Nova, and Le Poisson Rouge, for talents like "Glee's" Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff, Tony Award-winner Karen Olivo, "American Idol's" Melinda Doolittle, Celia and Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Merideth Kaye Clark, Felicia Finley, Caissie Levy and Kacie Sheik, and the cast of Broadway's Next to Normal. He most recently accompanied Trisha Yearwood and other music icons in a concert at Lincoln Center's prestigious Avery Fisher Hall benefiting Paul Newman's Serious Fun camps.

As an orchestrator and arranger, his work has been heard Off-Broadway in Old Jews Telling Jokes, Perez Hilton Saves the Universe and Spidermusical, in the benefit concerts Broadway Backwards and Miscast, and in opening numbers for both the 2010 Streamy Awards and 2011 Writers Guild Awards (East). As Music Supervisor of the cult hit web series "The Battery's Down," he orchestrated, arranged, and produced original songs by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, Glen Kelly and Lisa Lambert, Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan, Ryan Scott Oliver, Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk, Michael Patrick Walker, Nick Blaemire, Michael Arden, David Kirshenbaum, and Brett Ryback.

As a composer and lyricist, Wachter has contributed original songs and scores to web series "The Battery's Down" and "Submissions Only," Danny Visconti's cabaret act HILL-Bent, and the "Mr. Broadway" Pageant. He is currently writing his first musical.

Adam Wachter is a member of ASCAP, Local 802 AFM, and Mensa. He holds a Bachelor of Theatre Arts from the University of Michigan and is represented by Diana Glazer at ICM.