

The play was nominated for the 2006 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play, and Rapp received the 2006 Obie Award, Special Citation. The play ran Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre from Januto June 25, 2006, directed by Rapp. His play Red Light Winter received the Joseph Jefferson Award (Best New Work) in 2005 for its production at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. His play Stone Cold Dead Serious was produced in 2002 by the American Repertory Theater.

It has also been staged at by American Repertory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In 2001, Nocturne was premiered by the New York Theatre Workshop. His play Finer Noble Gases was staged by the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in 2000, by Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2001, by Carolina Actors Studio Theatre in Charlotte in 2003, and by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York City in 2004. Rapp attended the O'Neill Playwrights Conference in 1996.

His younger brother is actor-singer Anthony Rapp. He later completed a two-year playwriting fellowship at Juilliard School. Īfter college he moved to New York City's East Village, where he landed a day job in book publishing and wrote fiction and plays at night. At Clarke, he captained the varsity basketball team. John's Military Academy ( Delafield, Wisconsin) and Clarke College ( Dubuque, Iowa). The son of Mary Lee (née Baird died 1997) and Douglas Rapp, Adam Rapp was born in Chicago and spent most of his youth in Joliet, Illinois.
