Adam Michaels

Although born in Illinois, Adam has been living a majority of his life out west. He attened highschool in Arizona where he often questioned conforming and found it more fulfilling to tend to his hobbies more than anything. These hobbies included art, acting, and music. However he ironically gave much of his time to sports, competing as a sprinter in track and starting defense in football trough out highschool. At the end of his junior year he decided to focus on music. He went and got his GED, waved bye bye to school and the people trying to keep him inside of a box and went to tour the states.

After a year out on the road and a couple years of song writing Adam found his way to the vacation home of John Reese. The heavy hitting manager leading bands such as Guns and Roses, Limp Bizkit, The Used and Story of the Year to success. Adam was paired up with former drummer of The Used/current drummer of Rancid, Branden Steineckert who would act as the producer of Adam's alternative rock band Searchlight. Based out of Las Vegas the band found a quick start up when a song of theirs was heard by film star Milla Jovovich. In 2007 their song Contagious was featured on the film and soundtrack of Resident Evil: Extinction. Over the next couple of years Searchlight would share the stage with bands such as KISS, Goo Goo Dolls, Gavin Rossdale, Sick Puppies, Our Lady Peace, Flyleaf and many more. They then stepped into the studio to record their first album "Until the End and After". During all of the hustel and excitement Adam felt a urning and passion for something he had been missing..acting.
He stepped back onto the scene doing film and shortly landed the role of Chad for the Las Vegas premier of the musical All Shook Up. Heavily involved in acting and singing/songwriting, Adam also formed a business out of his art and paintings called "Adam's Artbox". He quickly earned a name amongst the Las Vegas art community and shortly after paired up with Arron Goodwin, star of Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures for a collection comapany. Adams art for Aaron Goodwin continues to grow world wide and they can now be seen featured at conventions such as Comic Con, Dragon Con, and Scarefest. The art lines are in talk to franchise so be on the look out. Meanwhile upon completion of the release of Searchlights album the music industry endured its brutal cave-in leaving Searchlight and many other bands and record labels lost and confused. In 2010 Searchlight came to its end.
Adam finished up his residency in Las Vegas with Vegas' first ever production of The Rocky Horror Show where he played Riff Raff. He then moved to Illinois in 2011 where he began his acting journey in a production of Mcbeth and played Billy in the Chicago premier of Predator: The Musical. In 2012 he was cast as Woof in Hair at Paramount Theater. Adam can currently be seen in Route 66 at Copely Theater. Please subsribe for updates and to see his art and other works visit www.adamsartbox.com