Emmy-nominated producer, writer and director, Adam graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, a double major in film production and acting.
Robitel made a big splash in the industry as a horror auteur having directed and produced The Taking (2014) (2014) a found-footage horror thriller for Bryan Singer's Bad Hat Harry Productions. The Taking of Deborah Logan was named a "Netflix Horror Gem" by The Wrap and won an iHorror Award for best direct release of 2014. Paramount Studios then hired Robitel and Deborah Logan co-writer Gavin Heffernan to rewrite Paranormal Activity 5: Ghost Dimension (2015) (2015). The scribe has also been tapped to pen a gritty reinvention of the slasher genre with Cropsey (2016) based on the infamous maniac who has haunted the imaginations of campers for over a hundred years for Peter Facinelli A7SLE Seven films.
Robitel's follow up film, "The Bloody Benders", based on the infamous true story, will be produced by Guillermo del Toro and Angryfilms' Susan Montford and Don Murphy. A twisted horror, western, love story, The Bloody Benders is one of the great untold stories of the American west and America's first serial killing family.
He is also developing a psychological thriller with producer Andrew Lazar's Mad Chance productions.
On the acting side, his motion picture debut was in Fox's smash success X-Men (2000) where he was thrown like a rag-doll by an eight-foot mutant. Since then Adam has worked on music videos the likes of Britney Spears and 'Smashmouth', appeared in "Spin City" and "Angel" and starred in a national commercial for Paul Mitchell. Adam then landed a leading role in Tim Sullivan's 2001 Maniacs (2005), a comedy-horror remake of the 1964 drive-in classic, starring alongside Robert Englund and Lin Shaye. Robitel would go on to appear in "Field of Screams", "Chillerama", and Paul Ward's Stephen King adaptation of "One For The Road", alongside Reggie Bannister.
