Adam Wayne Nixon

Adam is an Emmy-nominated and Tele Award winning television producer and filmmaker with extensive expertise in public diplomacy. He has produced 1,000+ television broadcasts for the Congressionally funded Middle East Broadcasting Network, a sister-station to Voice of America, where he helms the longest-running show, Inside Washington. Additionally, he directed and Executive Produced the network's social media-based U.S. Unit, making content for Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. His team reached 130+ million online views with science, history, and cultural content. Before that, he was the show producer of the nationally syndicated McLaughlin One-on-One on PBS and a senior producer on The McLaughlin Group on NBC. He worked with NBC News Washington, CNN, ABC News New York, Fox Television, and on many documentary films.

He was the Director, Writer, and EP of the feature film comedy Aspirin for the Masses, awarded Best Feature United States at the San Francisco Global Movie Fest, the Audience Award at the Cannes Underground Film Festival, and was an Official Selection of the St. Tropez and Milan International Film Festivals - among others. He was a finalist in the Sundance Screenwriting Competition and an Official Selection of the Beverly Hills Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film and Script Festival, and the Mountain Film Festival for screenwriting.  His plays have been presented at festivals in London, Romania, Switzerland, and the U.S. He is a member of UMD's Communication Department as a Senior Lecturer in digital visual communication. His book Cinema in Ones and Zeros is in its final edit for 2025 publication.