{"id":40,"date":"2020-07-20T21:35:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T21:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:28:36","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2579_crop-1-1024x819.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2579_crop-1-1024x819.png 1024w, https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2579_crop-1-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2579_crop-1-768x614.png 768w, https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2579_crop-1-1536x1229.png 1536w, https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/2579_crop-1-2048x1638.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-light-gray-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">Wade Elkins has led a varied performing career, working in New York and Chicago theatre, regional theatre, TV, commercials, film, studio recording, cruise ships, a theme park, workshops and readings of new theatre works, and even 13 years as a Blue Man with BLUE MAN GROUP.\u00a0 To see highlighted credits from his career, please see his Performance Resume page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-light-gray-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">Wade earned a Bachelor of Music with Honors in Voice Performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a Master of Music Education with Honors from Northwestern University&#8217;s Bienen School of Music, and a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Ohio University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-light-gray-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">In addition to performing, Wade works as an arts educator.  He currently teaches undergraduate acting and music classes at Ohio University.  In addition, Wade has been a high school music teacher; clinician and competition judge; private vocal and musical coach; theatrical, church, and choral music director; and instructor at arts camps.&nbsp; To see more detailed educational work, check out his resume on the Educator page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-very-light-gray-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size\">As a composer, Wade&#8217;s music is featured in Steven Strafford\u2019s award winning and critically acclaimed show <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenstrafford.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/methtacular.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Methtacular!<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wade Elkins has led a varied performing career, working in New York and Chicago theatre, regional theatre, TV, commercials, film, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wadeelkins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}